A.B. Spellman
This book tells what it means to be a black artist in America today. A. B. Spellman, in four profiles based on many hours of tape-recorded interviews, takes us deep inside jazz culture - the unremitting fight for work, for decent pay and conditions, for the right to innovate, for recognition. Much of the book is told in the musicians' own words, understated, cool, clear-eyed.
Music
Black Music, Four Lives