Fact #152838

George Simon (for 18 years the editor of Metronome) has scored the feeling of jazz - in the native vernacular of the men who play it, and even though as one of them says - "Jus' plain words can't do no good", still - much of that special excitation and dedication comes through. In The Session here, different players discuss some of the problems of a particular world: it's hard to be a family man; it's easy to be tagged a junkie; and then there are the spectators, the jazz killers (club owners, agents), the critics; and above all - that spectrum of "round and warm and smooth" or "live and angry" or "down-home, earthy, funky" feelings the truly creative jazz artist touches off. Expressive, representational line drawings by Tracy Sugarcane contribute - and suggest a gift audience of devotees.
(Source : review in Kirkus, at https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/george-simon/the-feeling-of-jazz/)