Nat Hentoff 
At the Jazz Band Ball [EPUB ebook] 
Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene

Nat Hentoff, renowned jazz critic, civil liberties activist, and fearless contrarian—’I’m a Jewish atheist civil-libertarian pro-lifer’—has lived through much of jazz’s history and has known many of jazz’s most important figures, often as friend and confidant. Hentoff has been a tireless advocate for the neglected parts of jazz history, including forgotten sidemen and -women. This volume includes his best recent work—short essays, long interviews, and personal recollections. From Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong to Ornette Coleman and Quincy Jones, Hentoff brings the jazz greats to life and traces their art to gospel, blues, and many other forms of American music.
At the Jazz Band Ball also includes Hentoff’s keen, cosmopolitan observations on a wide range of issues. The book shows how jazz and education are a vital partnership, how free expression is the essence of liberty, and how social justice issues like health care and strong civil rights and liberties keep all the arts—and all members of society—strong.

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Contents

Foreword by Lewis Porter

Acknowledgments


Introduction


Part One. What Am I Here For? The Rules of My Jazz Odyssey

1. Who Owns Jazz?

2. My Debt to Artie Shaw

3. The Family of Jazz

4. Beyond the Process

5. Playing Changes on Jazz Interviews


Part Two. In the Presence of Ellington

6. Inside the Ellington Band

7. Duke Ellington’s Posthumous Revenge

8. Essentially Duke (and Wynton)

9. Ellington’s Band Is Heavenly in These ‘Live’ Forties Recordings


Part Three. Jazz Credentials

10. Is Jazz Black Music?

11. No One Else Sounded Like ‘Pee Wee’ Russell

12. Just Call Him Thelonious

13. Remembering Dizzy

14. Oscar Peterson: A Jazz ‘Behemoth’ Moves On

15. A Great Night in Providence for Jazz and Snow

16. The Perfect Jazz Club

17. Anita O’Day: The Life of a Music Legend

18. The Music of the 1930s Is Back in Full Swing

19. The Expansive Jazz Journey of Marian Mc Partland

20. Going Inside Jazz with Wynton


Part Four. The Jazz Life On and Off the Road

21. Memories Are Made of This: A Conversation with Clark Terry

22. Man, I’m So Lucky to Be a Jazz Musician: Phil Woods

23. Conventional Unwisdom about Jazz


Part Five. Who Is a Jazz Singer?

24. Are Krall and Monheit Jazz Singers?

25. Billie Holiday, Live: A Biography in Music

26. This Daughter of Jazz Is One Cool Cat

27. The Springtime of Frank Sinatra

28. Sinatra Sings in Vegas, and You Are There

29. She’s on the Road to Renown

30. Bing and Guests Swing on the Air


Part Six. The Life Force of the Music

31. The Joyous Power of Black Gospel Music

32. The Healing Power of Jazz

33. Old Country Jewish Blues and Ornette Coleman

34. The Jewish Soul of Willie ‘The Lion’ Smith


Part Seven. Finding the First Amendment Groove

35. Satchmo’s Rap Sheet

36. The Constitution of a Jazzman

37. How Jazz Helped Hasten the Civil Rights Movement

38. The Congressman from the Land of Jazz

39. Jazz Musicians in the Public Square

40. Quincy Jones—Past, Present and Future


Part Eight. Roots

41. King Oliver in the Groove(s)

42. Giants at Play

43. Barrelhouse Chuck Goering Keeps the Blues Alive

44. Jazz’s History Is Living in Queens . . .

45. Uncovering Jazz Trails

46. Expanding the Map


Part Nine. The Survivors

47. The Thoreau of Jazz

48. A Living Memory of Dr. Art

49. Barren Days

50. Keeping Jazz—and Its Musicians—Alive

51. In New Orleans, the Saints Are Marching In Again

52. The Beating Heart of Jazz


Part Ten. The Regenerators

53. Bridging Generations

54. The Rebirth of the Hot Jazz Violin

55. The Newest Jazz Generation

56. Born in Israel

57. Theo Croker Arrives

58. The Ladies Who Swung the Band

59. Nineteen-Year-Old Saxophonist Verifies Future of Jazz


Part Eleven. The Master Teachers

60. A Complete Jazzman

61. The Lifetime Teacher: Jon Faddis

62. A House of Swing—for All Ages

63. Inside the Jazz Experience: Ron Carter

64. These Little Kids Think Coltrane Is Cool


Epilogue: My Life Lessons from the Jazz ‘Souls on Fire’


Credits

Index

Over de auteur

Nat Hentoff is an internationally known jazz critic and the only critic ever designated a Jazz Master by the NEA. He is a regular columnist for Jazz.com and the Wall Street Journal, the United Media Newspaper Syndicate, and the Cato Institute, where he is a senior fellow. His many books include Jazz Country; Jazz Is; The Jazz Life; Boston Boy: Growing Up with Jazz and Other Rebellious Passions; Living the Bill of Rights; and the forthcoming Is This America?