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Article: Martin Williams has a keen eye -- and ear -- for jazz
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 13, 1991
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JAZZ CHANGES
By Martin Williams
Oxford University Press, 317 pp., $24.95
Martin Williams writes as Louis Armstrong played: with simple,
clear, precise notes, notes that go straight to the heart of the
matter, notes that are deceptive in their simplicity and lack of
embellishment. The skill is in choosing the right notes.
Writing about jazz must not be easy, using one language to
describe another. And the language being described is full of
nuances that are hard to convey on the printed page; they are not
easily conveyed even on sheet music. But Williams, choosing the
right words, makes it seem effortless.
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