The U. S. produced jazz music but it has little critical discrimination, no authoritative history of jazz. It has remained for Europe, which first understood the poetry of Poe and the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, to produce an extensive and scholarly appreciation of U. S. jazz. In a book called Aux Frontieres du Jazz, now current in Paris, Robert Coffin, Belgian musical essayist, explains fastidiously what every good jazz musician knows but few would be able to express: that the true heroes of jazz are not the well-advertised Whitemans, Lombardos and Vallees, but an inner circle of such amazing virtuosi...
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