Cats Of Any Color

Download or read book Cats Of Any Color written by Gene Lees and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.