Nat Hentoff - American Music Is

Softcover
318 pgs.
Da Capo Press, Publ.

In over sixty pieces, 'American Music Is' probes the core of greatness in American music. Moving with ease between jazz, blues, country, and gospel, Hentoff delivers powerful profiles of the musicians and their music, from sweeping surveys of the roots of American music to precise, vivid assessments of individual performers such as John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Joe Williams, Duke Ellington, Willie Nelson, and many more.