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"""Excellent essays help the student understand the musicians involved.""--Stephen Stone, University of Oregon ""Martin Williams is perhaps our greatest living jazz critic.""--Guenther Schuller ""Read anything of Williams you can lay your hands on....His knowledge of jazz is all but unmatched.""--Washington Review ""Martin Williams persistently gets at essences, and that is why he has contributed so much to the very small body of authentic jazz criticism.""--Nat Hentoff ""Readers...will without a doubt find in Williams the most coherent and clear-minded guide to the essences of jazz performance they have ever encountered. He remains truly the critic's critic.""--Jack Sohmer, The Mississippi Rag"

'Jazz as a music provides writers with a deep well as a subject matter. Add this book to the collection if you missed it the first time round, it is among the best.' Claudia Caprez, Weekly Journal 'it is never less than stimulating' Brian Glasser, Q

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Martin Williams has written and edited a number of books on jazz; his articles have appeared in such places as Harper's, Saturday Review, The New York Times, High Fidelity, Stereo Review, Down Beat, and Metronome.

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