Volume 32, Number 21 & 22 · January 16, 1986
'Playing for Ourselves'
By E.J. Hobsbawm
Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie
as told to Albert Murray
Random House, 416 pp., $19.95
The World of Count Basie
by Stanley Dance
Da Capo, 399 pp., $10.95 (paper)
Sometime in the 1950s American popular music committed parricide. Rock murdered jazz. Count Basie describes a moment of the murder in his autobiography. There was
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