Volume 34, Number 2 · February 12, 1987
The Jazz Comeback
By E.J. Hobsbawm
Sitting In: Selected Writings on Jazz, Blues and Related Topics
by Hayden Carruth
University of Iowa Press, 192 pp., $22.50
His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra
by Kitty Kelley
Bantam, 575 pp., $21.95
'Round Midnight
a film by Bernard Tavernier
La Tristesse de Saint Louis: Jazz Under the Nazis
by Mike Zwerin
Beech Tree Books/William Morrow, 197 pp., $16.95
American Musicians: Fifty-six Portraits in Jazz
by Whitney Balliett
Oxford University Press, 415 pp., $22.95
In the Moment: Jazz in the 1980s
by Francis Davis
Oxford University Press, 258 pp., $18.95
A Life in Jazz
by Danny Barker, edited by Alyn Shipton
Oxford University Press, 223 pp., $19.95
Up From the Cradle of Jazz: New Orleans Music Since World War II
by Jason Berry, by Jonathan Foose, by Tad Jones
University of Georgia Press, 272 pp., $15.95 (paper)
Until recently jazz has occupied a curiously marginal position in the official culture of its native country, and even within the black community. The public for it has been tiny: far smaller than the public for classical music. Record producers, who probably contain a much higher proportion of jazz buffs than the American people at large, can hardly be expected to invest much in music that nowadays sells less than 4 percent of discs and tapes.[1]
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