This work consists of 29 frank conversations which drummer Arthur Taylor held with jazz musicians of the 60s and 70s - including Betty Carter, Kenny Clarke, Ornette Coleman, Dizzy Gillespie, Elvin Jones, Max Roach and Sonny Rollins. So many issues are covered, from music to the economics of the music biz to the role of black artists in a white society. This book is a must-have for any serious jazz musician. And for those jazz aficionados out there, there is no greater, truer source of what drives jazz musicians and makes them create the way they do.

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