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# Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz As Told by the Men Who Made It

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## Customer Reviews

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    "Everyone Should Know This"
  

*by C***K on Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2021*

My headline quotes trombonist Jim Robinson: "When I play sweet music, I try to give my feelings to the other fellow. That's always in my mind. Everyone should know this" (410).Compare Hoagy Carmichael's reaction to first hearing Bix Beiderbeck in 1923: "'Why,' I moaned, 'why isn't everybody in the world here to hear that?' I meant it. Something as unutterably stirring as that deserves to be heard by the world" (142).That's just a sample of the feast awaiting you in "Hear Me Talkin' To Ya," first published in 1955 and still in print. Editors Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff built this book with a very canny structure: instead of dedicating a chapter to each of the jazz greats, they combed through articles, essays, books, letters, and personal interviews of somewhere between sixty and a hundred different musicians and jazz promoters. Then, following a rough chronology from 1900 to 1955, they blended excerpts from all of the greats into an impressionistic conversation among them about all facets of jazz: its origins, its developments, the different cities—sometimes, different streets within cities—in which different styles incubated, the personalities of the founding fathers and mothers, the models, the rivalries, endless days of jamming and practice, nights on the road, poverty, racism, drugs, unions: everything you could imagine and much that you couldn't. And by "the greats" I'm not exaggerating: here, in their own words, are (among too many others to name) Jelly Roll Morton, Joe "King" Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Lil Armstrong, Kid Ory, Clarence Williams, Duke Ellington, Ethel Waters, Willie "The Lion" Smith, Mary Lou Williams, Fletcher Henderson, Coleman Hawkins, W, C. Handy, James P. Johnson, Fats Waller, Count Basie, Jack Teagarden, Jo Jones, Lester Young, Gene Krupa, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Lena Horne, Charlie Parker, and Dave Brubeck. Although it's print on a page, each speaker expresses him- or herself in a style as distinctive as their playing.The unsurpassable joy of this book is its history of the subject by the men and women who made that history. Hear from Bill Basie himself the tales of who dubbed him "Count" and why his band's signature song, a nameless head arrangement, acquired the name "One O'Clock Jump." Learn where the term "woodshedding" came from. And listen to Brubeck tell a wondrous story of how jazz was able to reach the unreachable: catatonic patients in an army mental institution. "[They were] the best audience we ever had. … "[The] recorded music meant nothing to them. They needed the human warmth of the musicians in the room with them" (409).That just may be the defining characteristic of this chronicle: human warmth. If "Hear Me Talking' To Ya" isn't an essential book on the music aficionado's shelf, then I can't imagine what else would qualify.

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    The definitive book about the origins of jazz
  

*by P***E on Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2017*

This is the definitive book for anyone who wants to learn about the origins of jazz, not filtered through the lens of some academic with an agenda.  It's the story told  by the men and women who made the music.The poignant letters from Joseph "King" Oliver during his hard times are memorable show what a noble soul he was.,

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    This is not great literature but it is a wonderful book of jazz ...
  

*by R***N on Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2014*

This is not great literature but it is a wonderful book of jazz musicians talking about their experiences from the past.  Lots of comments by musicians about the great days of New Orleans, Basie, Ellington and Bop.  As I love Jazz this was for me a delight because it gave me so much background to the music.In my opinion a necessity for any person who wants to know and understand the history of Jazz

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