The Jazz Word

by Dom Cerulli

An excellent cross-section of jazz writing including fiction, portrait profiles, prose, poetry, art & photography. Read about the night Charlie Mingus called his audience "poppaloppers" or the first study-in-depth of narcotics in jazz; mercer ellington's frank recollections on his famous father, Duke. Read Tony Scott's first short story; find out what's happening to jazz-and-poetry; where jazz has been, where it is and where it's going; read articles on Eddie Condon and more. We are offering this book despite the condition because it is an extremely hard-to-come by First Edition Paperback.

Genres: Music

250 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1987