Bücher von Whitney Balliett

Collect all the jazz profiles Whitney Balliett has written for The New Yorker during the past 24 years. The book can be taken as a kind of history of jazz, as well as a biographical encylopedia of many of its most important performers. It can also be regarded as a model of American prose.

When Whitney Balliett's American Musicians appeared in the Fall of 1986, the acclaim it received was universal. That book gathered together all of Balliett's profiles of jazz instrumentalists. Here, in American Singers, Balliett has added thirteen new biographical profiles to provide the perfect complement to American Musicians.