Description This book is one of the most improtant works ever written on Jazz music.
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It exposes the lies and misconceptions that have surrounded this music, the attempts-made anew, it seems, each decade-to deny that jazz is one of the leading artistic forces of our time.
It is a virtual manifesto agains the ghettoization and the racist pigeonholing thast has afflicted the public\'s appreciation of this great Music since its beginnings as ragtime a century ago.
Description This book is one of the most improtant works ever written on Jazz music