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An invaluable book for musicians as well as listeners. It is not only an illumination of master drummers, including some deserving more renown, but also the interviews with a wide range of musicians add new insight into jazz history. --Nat Hentoff<br> If you want to know what modern drumming is all about, this is your book. Burt Korall has done a remarkable job, and I strongly recommend it. --Artie Shaw<br> Attention drummers, jazz lovers, bebop lovers, and students of jazz history! Run--I repeat, run--do not walk to your local bookstore and purchase this absolutely wonderful book. --Allegro Korall digs deep into the hippest period in drumming history. A fascinating must-read for any drummer of style or lover of modern jazz. --William F. Miller, Editorial Director, Modern Drummer Magazine<br> Nobody writes about jazz drumming like Burt Korall. He gets inside the important drummers, the jazzmen who played with them, the arrangers and the leaders, to capture the excitement, the feel, even the sound of the Bebop Era. What an achievement! --Dom Cerulli, The Jazz Word<br> Korall's eagerly awaited sequel to his swing-era treatise is a lively, fascinatingly detailed text composed of narrative, exegesis, interviews and musical examples. Korall tells you exactly what these tub-thumpers did to make their music sound the way it did, from the obscure Lou Fromm to the familiar Kenny Clarke. --Seattle Times/Post-Intelligencer<br>

<br> An invaluable book for musicians as well as listeners. It is not only an illumination of master drummers, including some deserving more renown, but also the interviews with a wide range of musicians add new insight into jazz history. --Nat Hentoff<br> If you want to know what modern drumming is all about, this is your book. Burt Korall has done a remarkable job, and I strongly recommend it. --Artie Shaw<br> Attention drummers, jazz lovers, bebop lovers, and students of jazz history! Run--I repeat, run--do not walk to your local bookstore and purchase this absolutely wonderful book. --Allegro Korall digs deep into the hippest period in drumming history. A fascinating must-read for any drummer of style or lover of modern jazz. --William F. Miller, Editorial Director, Modern Drummer Magazine<br> Nobody writes about jazz drumming like Burt Korall. He gets inside the important drummers, the jazzmen who played with them, the arrangers and the leaders, to capture the excitement, the fe

An invaluable book for musicians as well as listeners. It is not only an illumination of master drummers, including some deserving more renown, but also the interviews with a wide range of musicians add new insight into jazz history. --Nat Hentoff If you want to know what modern drumming is all about, this is your book. Burt Korall has done a remarkable job, and I strongly recommend it. --Artie Shaw Attention drummers, jazz lovers, bebop lovers, and students of jazz history! Run--I repeat, run--do not walk to your local bookstore and purchase this absolutely wonderful book. --Allegro Korall digs deep into the hippest period in drumming history. A fascinating must-read for any drummer of style or lover of modern jazz. --William F. Miller, Editorial Director, Modern Drummer Magazine Nobody writes about jazz drumming like Burt Korall. He gets inside the important drummers, the jazzmen who played with them, the arrangers and the leaders, to capture the excitement, the feel, even the sound of the Bebop Era. What an achievement! --Dom Cerulli, The Jazz Word Korall's eagerly awaited sequel to his swing-era treatise is a lively, fascinatingly detailed text composed of narrative, exegesis, interviews and musical examples. Korall tells you exactly what these tub-thumpers did to make their music sound the way it did, from the obscure Lou Fromm to the familiar Kenny Clarke. --Seattle Times/Post-Intelligencer Korall's eagerly awaited sequel to his swing-era treatise is a lively, fascinatingly detailed text composed of narrative, exegesis, interviews and musical examples. Korall tells you exactly what these tub-thumpers did to make their music sound the way it did, from the obscure Lou Fromm to the familiar Kenny Clarke. --Seattle Times/Post-Intelligencer If you want to know what modern drumming is all about, this is your book. Burt Korall has done a remarkable job, and I strongly recommend it. --Artie Shaw Nobody writes about jazz drumming like Burt Korall. He gets inside the important drummers, the jazzmen who played with them, the arrangers and the leaders, to capture the excitement, the feel, even the sound of the Bebop Era. What an achievement! --Dom Cerulli, The Jazz Word Attention drummers, jazz lovers, bebop lovers, and students of jazz history! Run--I repeat, run--do not walk to your local bookstore and purchase this absolutely wonderful book. --Allegro Korall digs deep into the hippest period in drumming history. A fascinating must-read for any drummer of style or lover of modern jazz. --William F. Miller, Editorial Director, Modern Drummer Magazine Burt Korall uses the topic of bebop drumming to range across the larger territory of music. Masterly in concept, scope and detail, his book tells the stories of the great bop drummers, and Korall is a superb story teller. --Doug Ramsey, author of Jazz Matters: Reflections on the Music and Some of its Makers Unexpected coverage of artists like Tiny Kahn, Stan Levey, Shadow Wilson, and Don Lamond provide diversity and a greater understanding of how bop drumming evolved. It is a readable tome that would appeal to jazz enthusiasts and jazz scholars alike. --Library Journal

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Burt Korall, himself a jazz drummer, is a music business veteran and jazz authority who has written on jazz for The New York Times, Village Voice, Modern Drummer, and a number of other jazz publications. He has been Director of Special Assignments at BMI and is currently founder and director of the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop. He lives in Mount Vernon, New York.

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