[78-L] Leonard Feather's Inside Jazz ^

[David Lennick]

I don't even have "Inside Leonard Feather". I do have "Inside Sauter-Finegan" 
but that's it.

dl

Bill McClung wrote:
> I was in Tampa today and found a copy of "Inside Jazz" by Leonard Feather.
> The book's front cover touts Feather as the world's #1 authority on bebop.
> 
> The book is from 1949, a 7"x10" paperback published by Robbins & Sons of
> NYC.  Lots of great illustrations and notes on record labels and band
> personnel.  Also has a page devoted to the song origins of many bebop
> tunes.  The purpose of the book was to talk about bebop without resorting to
> the stereotypes of berets and dark glasses and slang. One picture has Dizzy
> and Louis standing arm in arm lost in conversation with the caption saying
> that despite all the talk these two are actually good friends.
> 
> But what I found most interesting was that the front cover said "Inside
> Jazz" but on the title page it was titled "Inside Bebop" and Dizzy
> Gillespie's short introduction also said the book was titled 'Inside
> Bebop."   So even by 1949 the publisher didn't think the world was not ready
> for an authoritative discussion of bebop?  Anybody have a copy of this with
> "Inside Bebop" as the title on the cover?
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