Downbeat: The Great Jazz Interviews
Does anything really need to be said about this book other than the title? It’s the great jazz magazine DownBeat, and interviews of – well, everyone! Established in 1934 in Chicago, DownBeat came to be called the “Bible of Jazz.” This collection of interview is in honor of the magazine’s 75th anniversary (2009) and contains...
A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane’s Signature Album
John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme was by many measures the second-greatest jazz album of all time (after Miles Davis Kind of Blue). Ashley Kahn, having already given us a close look at Kind of Blue, now does the same for A Love Supreme. The album was quickly put together, recorded in a single evening by...