The Jazz Tradition [Paperback] Review

This is one of the great books on Jazz (and there are not very many). Williams has 23 (short) chapters on great Jazz musicians framed by 2 more general statements. I don't think any writer has been a more penetratingcritic of Jazz and I find myself returning to this book year after year.Perhaps you won't understand it all at one go (I didn't) but, as NatHentoff put it, "Martin Williams persistently gets at essences".He has his faults:- he didn't really like Coltrane, maybe he overates theMJQ, post 60's jazz is covered only by the World Saxophone Quartet. Butdon't be put off, no current writer (Williams died in the 90s) matches him.

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