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From the earliest riverboat jazz to Dizzy Gillespie's Hep-Sations of 1945, Swing Out is the story of the great black dance bands who dazzled America for over 40 years. Included are stories of the greats: how Fletcher Henderson would become so hypnotised by the sound of his band that he would quit playing piano and just listen; how Bubber Miley of the Duke Ellington Orchestra invented the growl technique; how Noble Sissle became the darling of the international set; how John Hammond brought Count Basie to New York; how Erskine Hawkins developed a short musical break into the hit Tuxedo Junction; how Jimmie Lunceford created his orchestra from his high school students; and scores of other inside stories about such notables as Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Fats Waller, Lionel Hampton, Cab Calloway and Earl Hines.
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Shamsolmali Kashani
reviewed Swing out on November 22, 2016
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OK, so there was some useful information in this book. It was just hard to get at. The issue with the book, for me, is that the title is misleading. This book is not primarily about John Coltrane. Rather, it is primarily about Kofsky's thesis that what happened to jazz in the 60s, with the "New Thing", and "Free Jazz", was a direct result of the African American community's struggle for justice, and that jazz in general was a music that grew out of oppression.
Not that there is not truth in this statement. However, Kofsky takes it too far. While reading the music, jazz as pure creativity starts to recede into the background, and jazz as socio-revolutionary tool ascends to a point that is probably not warranted.
That said, there are some great interviews with Trane, Elvin Jones, and McCoy Tyner. That, alone, makes it worth cracking the book open. If you have an intrepid streak, you can also pick up interesting and useful nuggets nested deeply here and there in Kofsky's continual drone of Marxist ideals that filters all the jazz he hears.
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