A History of Jazz - Joachim-Ernst Berendt

Joachim-Ernst Berendt has achieved the feat of bringing together here seven of the greatest American and European specialists in the history of jazz: Dan Morgenstern, editor-in-chief of Down Beat (the most important jazz magazine in the world), Leonard Feather, who For almost fourteen years, first in London, then in New York, finally in Hollywood, Reimer von Essen, leader of the best traditional (New Orleans) formation in Germany, has lived and traced the history of jazz day after day. , Manfred Miller, a sociologist of jazz, Werner Burkhardt, a famous jazz critic, Ekkehard Jost, who earned the title of Doctor of Musical Sciences for his work on jazz, Karl Lippegaus, who wrote his first radio program on jazz at the age of seventeen.

A history of jazz, yes, but not a simple compilation. Behind the music we perceive the fascination of the American way of life in the years before and after the First World War, the intoxication of the Swing era, the resignation of the 50s. And, always and again, anger and protest: in the blues, during the Second World War, and throughout the 60s.