  
By Dempsey J. Travis
1983, Soft Cover, 543 pages with black and white photography throughout
“This is like no other jazz memoir I’ve read. The author is not a jazz critic, nor a jazz artist. He is simply a friend of the heroes and heroines, whose dreams, dark and sweet, he recounts. And whose hard truths he captures. Because he is simply a friend, there are things revealed that might otherwise be forever hidden. Or blown up into myth. No, Dempsey Travis offers us an informal, mostly oral, history of the way it was. That is all one can ask.”
(From the introduction by Studs Terkel)
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