A01=Nat Hentoff
Author_Nat Hentoff
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Product details
- ISBN 9780306813511
- Weight: 458g
- Dimensions: 296 x 342mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 2004
- Publisher: Hachette Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Writing in a passionate and streetwise style all his own, Nat Hentoff transports us into the diverse worlds of musicians that hold one thing in common: America. In over sixty pieces Hentoff has assembled a mosaic that creates a vivid picture of the music scene as it leaps into the twenty-first century. From sweeping surveys of the roots of American music to vivid assessments of individual performers (including John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Joe Williams, Doc Pomus, Duke Ellington, Willie Nelson, and many more) Hentoff demonstrates once again why he is lauded as "a critic par excellence" ( Publishers Weekly ). American Music Is compiles the best of his essays into a potent reader, collecting his most illuminating writing on a broad range of topics. For those who love jazz, blues, country, gospel, or folk, American Music Is provides eloquent and powerful insights. For those who love all of them, it is required reading.
Nat Hentoff is the first Jazz critic every named a "Jazz Master" by the National Endowment for the Arts.
