Description
Martin Williams is one of the most perceptive and entertaining jazz critics writing in America today. This collection of pieces on the past, present, and future of the jazz idiom includes profiles of Sidney Bechet, Ornette Coleman, and Miles Davis, an assessment of jazz-rock fusion, and a look at the pressures placed on musicians and their music by commercialism.
About the Author
Martin Williams has written and edited a number of books on jazz; his articles have appeared in such places as Harper's, Saturday Review, The New York Times, High Fidelity, Stereo Review, Down Beat, and Metronome.
Reviews
The most knowledgeable, open-minded, and perceptive American jazz critic writing today. * Washington Post *
Read anything of Williams you can lay your hands on. * Washington Review *
Martin Williams is perhaps our greatest living jazz critic. * Gunther Schuller *
a rare combination of journalistic fluency, erudition, insight and taste ... He is one of the most serious of jazz commentators, with a distaste for adjectival writing and loose talk. * John Fordham, Q *
there is a particular kind of pleasure to be found in reading the work of people who really know and love their subject. Martin Williams is one of them. He has the ability not only to inform and entertain, but to make you feel that you share his familiarity with the men and the music he writes about. * Sunday Times *
The great thing about Martin Williams is that he actually writes about music - and, what's more, does it entertainingly. * Jazz *
There is a particular kind of pleasure to be found in reading the work of people who really know and love their subject. Martin Williams is one of them. He has the ability not only to inform and entertain, but to make you feel that you share his familiarity with the men and the music he writes about. * Sunday Times *
Book Information
ISBN 9780195069044
Author Martin Williams
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 334g
Dimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm * 19mm
About the Author
Martin Williams has written and edited a number of books on jazz; his articles have appeared in such places as Harper's, Saturday Review, The New York Times, High Fidelity, Stereo Review, Down Beat, and Metronome.
Reviews
The most knowledgeable, open-minded, and perceptive American jazz critic writing today. * Washington Post *
Read anything of Williams you can lay your hands on. * Washington Review *
Martin Williams is perhaps our greatest living jazz critic. * Gunther Schuller *
a rare combination of journalistic fluency, erudition, insight and taste ... He is one of the most serious of jazz commentators, with a distaste for adjectival writing and loose talk. * John Fordham, Q *
there is a particular kind of pleasure to be found in reading the work of people who really know and love their subject. Martin Williams is one of them. He has the ability not only to inform and entertain, but to make you feel that you share his familiarity with the men and the music he writes about. * Sunday Times *
The great thing about Martin Williams is that he actually writes about music - and, what's more, does it entertainingly. * Jazz *
There is a particular kind of pleasure to be found in reading the work of people who really know and love their subject. Martin Williams is one of them. He has the ability not only to inform and entertain, but to make you feel that you share his familiarity with the men and the music he writes about. * Sunday Times *
Book Information
ISBN 9780195069044
Author Martin Williams
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 334g
Dimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm * 19mm
