Title: Collected works
First published: 2000
Description: "Collected Works: A Journal of Jazz, captures the full range and register of the jazz scene, from the first Newport Jazz Festival in 1954 to recent performances by a rising generation of musicians. Here are definitive portraits of such major figures as Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Django Reinhardt, Martha Raye, Buddy Rich, Charles Mingus, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Art Tatum, Bessie Smith and Earl Hines - a list that barely scratches the surface.

Generations of readers have learned to listen to the music with Balliett's graceful guidance. For five decades he has captured the moments when jazz history was being made."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Jazz, History and criticism, Reviews, Geschichte, Jazz, history and criticism, Jazz musicians
LC classification: ML3507 .B33 2000