31: Jazz Is, Nat Hentoff

Nat Hentoff is one of the co-editors of Hear Me Talkin' to Ya.

This is a collection of essays on prominent figures in jazz, with several short quotations on the nature of jazz and its practitioners sprinkled in between. The essays contain a good amount of anecdote and quotations themselves, but are not nearly as entertaining as the free-form Hear Me Talkin' to Ya.

Most of the chapters deal with modern figures. The chapter on Mulligan was particularly interesting and makes me want to hear a little bit more of him.