Volume 36, Number 6 · April 13, 1989
Some Like It Hot
By E.J. Hobsbawm
The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930–1945
by Gunther Schuller
Oxford University Press, 919 pp., $30.00
Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development
by Gunther Schuller
Oxford University Press, 401 pp., $8.95
Meet Me at Jim & Andy's: Jazz Musicians and Their World
by Gene Lees
Oxford University Press, 265 pp., $18.95
'It seems quite clear today in retrospect,' writes Gunther Schuller, who was at the time entering his teens, 'that the Depression years and their aftermath were culturally and artistically the richest this nation has experienced in this century.' Probably many more people would today agree with this proposition than would dissent from it, but not many would be convinced by the author's comment that this was so because
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