Let Freedom Swing
Collected Writings on Jazz, Blues, and Gospel
In four decades of covering music for the Chicago Tribune, Howard traveled the country and the world. From the streets of Havana to the shores of Panama to the clubs of Chicago’s South Side, Howard chronicled the jazz, blues and gospel scenes. “Let Freedom Swing” stands as the first collection of Reich’s writings on these subjects and documents such historic moments as vibraphonist Lionel Hampton’s funeral procession in New York, gospel originator Thomas A. Dorsey’s “home-going” in Chicago, and New Orleans’ struggles to make music again in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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What They Say
“This book is a must-read for the connoisseur or one who has broad interests in America’s indigenous music and its root sources.”
Ellis Marsalis
