Title: The pleasures of jazz : leading performers on their lives, their music, their contemporaries /
Authors: Feather, Leonard, 1914-1994.
Publisher: Horizon Press,
Year: 1976
Subjects: Jazz History and criticism; Jazz musicians.
Contents: Introduction / Benny Carter -- The pleasures of jazz -- Overview (twenty years of jazz) -- Happenings : Freddie Hubbard ; Herbie Hancock ; Chick Corea ; Dave Holland ; Donald Byrd ; Supersax -- Old masters : Reb Spikes ; Barney Bigard ; Joe Venuti ; Eubie Blake ; Earl Hines ; Hoagy Carmichael ; Red Norvo ; Jess Stacy -- Big bandsmen : Thad Jones/Mel Lewis ;Woody Herman ; Maynard Ferguson ; Mercer Ellington ; Buddy DeFranco ; Bob Crosby -- Voices : Sarah Vaughan ; Cleo Laine ; Clara Ward ; Anita O'Day ; Jackie Cain & Roy Kral ; Billy Eckstine ; Lena Horne -- Combo leaders : The Brubecks ; Dizzy Gillespie ; Yusef Lateef ; John Lewis ; Shelly Manne ; Gerry Mulligan ; Charles Lloyd ; Terry Gibbs -- Other pleasures : David Amram ; Norman Granz ; Quincy Jones ; Marian McPartland ; Phil Moore ; Romano Mussolini ; Oliver Nelson.