^#smrgSAHAF Frontiers of Jazz -

Frontiers of Jazz collects between tidy covers some of the best short pieces ever published about jazz and jazzmen. Written by critics and musicians and gleaned through the years from notably dissimilar sources, they record half a century of techniques, innovations, personalities, and events. They discover jazz, take it upriver from New Orleans, from honkytonks to long-hair and white-tie hangouts, and across the seas as our most American American export. A jazz classic in itself, this new edition adds Jean-Paul Sartre's more recent “Jazz in America”, Ralph de Toledano's own new “Directions of Jazz” and his appreciations of Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith. The augmented ‘Frontiers of Jazz' is bound to have an enthusiastic welcome to re-echo the first comments