Inside Jazz (inside Bebop)
- ISBN-10
- 0306774372
- ISBN-13
- 9780306774379
- Category
- Music / Genres & Styles / Jazz
- Pages
- 103
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1977-11-21
- Publisher
- Da Capo Press
- Author
- Leonard Feather
Description
Critic Leonard Feather was one of the earliest and most persistent champions of bop. It was he who persuaded RCA Victor that the new music was worth recording. His Inside Jazz is a full-length account of bop: its origins and development and the personalities of the musicians who created it. Numerous photographs and anecdotes bring this innovative era in jazz history back to life once more.
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