Larry Kart's jazz book is on the way

[Lawrence Kart]

A bit of I hope legitimate self-promotion. "Jazz In Search of Itself" -- a collection of everything I’ve written over the last 35 years or so that seems worth preserving, plus a fair amount of new stuff -- will be published on or about Nov. 16. You can read more about it here (click on the cover image and it gets larger):

http://yalepress.yale.edu/YupBooks/v...sbn=0300104200

I love that cover image BTW (taken from a circa 1957 photo I had of Ira Sullivan and Johnny Griffin at a Chicago club -- Nevin Wilson is the bassist) because its front-table immediacy links up with one of the implicit themes of the book -- the inseparable relationship in jazz (for better or worse) between players and listeners. (And, of course, players are listeners too; Griffin clearly is listening intently to what Sullivan is doing.) Also, the photo easily could have been taken on a night when I was present.

Further info: I see that Barnes and Noble online is selling the book at a discount; Amazon, the last time I looked, isn’t.

Larry Kart

[Lois Gilbert]

Larry, the link doesn't seem to be working....

[Lawrence Kart]

Thanks for the heads up, Lois. Don't know why the old link quit, but this should do it:

http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/

and then plug my last name or the book’s title ("Jazz In Search of Itself") into the "book search" box.

Larry Kart

[Nate Dorward]

Larry--congrats on the book's publication! I'm greatly looking forward to it.