Nat Hentoff
1) Jazz country
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1965]
Language
English
Description
A white youth from New York's East 70's discovers that although trumpet technique is not enough to gain entrance to the soul musician's world, friendship with a top jazzman gives him a broader perspective of his environment as well as of the alternatives the future offers.
7) Free speech for me--but not for thee: how the American left and right relentlessly censor each other
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Books
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Continuing the story that began in his widely praised Boston Boy, Nat Hentoff in Speaking Freely guides us through more than forty years of his life in journalism, a career as various as his passions, and follows our social history from the civil rights and antiwar movements to the most incendiary battles (such as abortion) of the present day. Hentoff first evokes New York in the fifties, when he wrote for the jazz magazine Down Beat and came to know...
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[1966]
Language
English
Description
In this marvelous oral history, the words of such legends as Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, and Billy Holiday trace the birth, growth, and changes in jazz over the years. Includes excerpts from hundreds of personal interviews, letters, tapes, and articles.