Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond
"... attractive combination of affection and candor... A serious, thoughtful book, as lucidly written as a first-class literary biography..." --Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal"A major piece of jazz scholarship, the book cuts no corners." --Ben Ratliff, The New York Times"Every jazz musician should be lucky enough to get a biography as thoroughly researched and luxuriously produced." --Paul deBarros, Seattle Times"Rarely in the annals of jazz biography has a subject's career been documented so thoroughly... a monumental work." --Downbeat Magazine, July, 2005...an invaluable addition to jazz literature. I knew Paul Desmond, but I found so much more I did not know. --Nat Hentoff, noted critic and jazz writerThe detail of the research is astonishing. The writing is exquisite.  I've never seen a biography like it. --Gene Lees, Editor of "The Jazz Letter"This is the finest biography we've had of an important jazz figure. --Dan Morgenstern (Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies)