Cats of Any Color: Jazz, Black and White
In a series of candid interviews with jazz players, composers, and critics, Gene Lees explores racism in the past and present of jazz—both the white racism that for decades ghettoized black musicians and their music, and the prejudice that Lees documents of some black musicians against their white counterparts. With subjects ranging from Horace Silver to Dave Brubeck to Red Rodney, and a new introduction analyzing recent developments, Cats of Any Color chronicles jazz as a multiethnic art.\...
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Lees is the glowing jewel of jazz for his understanding of it [and] for his writing about it.-Dizzy Gillespie
The Prez of Louisville3Dr. de Lerma, I Presume19The Man on the Buffalo Nickel: Dave Brubeck39Growing Up in Los Angeles: Ernie Andrews63Father and Son: Horace Silver77The Nine Lives of Red Rodney91The Philadelphia Connection: Benny Golson123The Return of Red Mitchell143Three Sketches167Jazz Black and White187
