Cats of Any Color: Jazz, Black and White (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780306809507)

In a series of candid interviews with jazz players, composers, and critics, Gene Lees explores racism in the past and present of jazz--both the white racism that for decades ghettoized black musicians and their music, and the prejudice that Lees documents of some black musicians against their white counterparts. With subjects ranging from Horace Silver to Dave Brubeck to Red Rodney, and a new introduction analyzing recent developments, Cats of Any Color chronicles jazz as a multiethnic art.

Author: Gene Lees
ISBN-10: 0306809508
ISBN-13: 9780306809507
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2001
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.67d

About the Author
Gene Lees, three-time winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor award, is the author of several books and his widely acclaimed Jazzletter. He lives in Ojai, California.