Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and ...

Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce Jazz Musicians Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce Alfred Appel, Jr of the present day York: Knopf, 2002. 283 pp $3500

Appel's "immediate intent is 'to establish the place of classic jazz (1920-50)--especially Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Jack Teagarden and Charlie Parker--in the great modernist tradition in the arts.' He does in the way that by pursuing the formal and thematic affinities that link jazz with high modernism."

William P Kelley NYTBR Nov.