Bass notes : jazz in American culture : a personal view /

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Includes index.Introduction : A fateful letter -- Skripitching -- The right high school and wrong university -- A pressure case -- Paris and Bud -- Jazz professional -- Playing with Bill -- An interruption -- A brilliant drummer -- Bill redux -- Independence and study -- Name that tune -- Survival -- The National Jazz Ensemble -- Simple isn't easy -- The jazz education industrial complex -- Panning for gold -- Epilogue : The last gig with Bill."Chuck Israels has witnessed over a half-century of change and innovation in American jazz music. In Bass Notes, he offers up both an engaging memoir and a meditation on the history of jazz music and its prospects for the future"--