African Rhythms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston

About Randy WestonWillard Jenkins

Randy Weston is an internationally renowned pianist composer and bandleader living in Brooklyn New York. He has made more than forty albums and performed throughout the world. Weston has been inducted into the ASCAP Jazz Wall of Fame designated a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts and named Jazz Composer of the Year three times by DownBeat magazine. He is the recipient of many other honors and awards including Frances Order of Arts and Letters the Black Star Award from the Arts Critics and Reviewers Association of Ghana and a five-night tribute at the Montreal Jazz Festival.Willard Jenkins is an independent arts consultant producer educator and print and broadcast journalist. His writing has been featured in JazzTimes DownBeat Jazz Report Jazz Forum All About Jazz Jazzwise and many other publications. He contributed two chapters to Aint Nothing like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment.