"Jazz Is"
A book filled with a deep love for jazz.
Jazz continues to be played and listened to. New, active forms of jazz continue to emerge. New jazz finds new fans. But no matter what anyone says, the days when jazz was a true, pure myth are gone, and they're not coming back.
Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Clifford Brown, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane... People like that will never appear again in this world, because something that appears twice cannot become a myth in the first place.
Nat Hentoff is a storyteller who speaks of this mythical era of jazz. John Coltrane said, "How can words say what music cannot?" And he is absolutely right. However, there are also some things that music cannot say everything about. Nat Hentoff takes up those "some things" and speaks about them honestly, humbly, and kindly. This is a book filled with a deep love for jazz.
