Jazz Lives

by Gene Lees, John Reeves

A renowned jazz author and an internationally acclaimed photographer team up in this history of America's greatest musical gift to the 20th century -- that of jazz music -- portrayed through the lives of its most accomplished practitioners. Arranged chronologically, the biographical profiles trace the progress of jazz though the century into the 1990s. Profiles of Spiegle Willcox, Doc Cheatham, Benny Carter, Artie Shaw, Dizzy Gillespie, Hank Jones, Joe Williams, Marian McPartland, Dave Brubeck, Clark Terry, Billy Taylor, Carmen McRae, Max Roach, Henry Mancini, Oscar Peterson, Tony Bennett, Gerry Mulligan, Bill Crow, Maynard Ferguson, Art Farmer, Horace Silver, Benny Golson, McCoy Tyner, Bill Watrous, Jack DeJohnette, Terry Clarke, Roy Hargrove, Kenny Washington, Geri Allen, Renee Rosnes, Christian McBride, and many more. Black-and-white photos.

216 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1992

About the author

Frederick Eugene John Lees (February 8, 1928 – April 22, 2010) was a Canadian music critic, biographer, lyricist, and journalist.

Lees worked as a newspaper journalist in his native Canada before moving to the United States, where he was a music critic and lyricist.