Portraits in Jazz
80 Profiles of Jazz Legends, Renegades
and revolutionaries
The second collection of Howard’s writings on music focuses on the legends, iconoclasts and revolutionaries who defined and redefined jazz in the 20th and 21st centuries. Howard met, reviewed and interviewed uncounted giants, his portraits of Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Tony Bennett and dozens more capturing these masters as only a journalist can: in the heat of the moment. And Howard’s profiles of past legends such as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday reflect a historian’s understanding of the art of jazz.
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What They Say
“Howard Reich may be the only full-time jazz writer for a daily newspaper outside of New York. The Chicago Tribune gives him plenty of space for his extraordinary in-depth interviews and reviews.”
Thomas L. Harris
“A fabulous treasure trove of past columns … rich with historical tidbits about many of the greatest jazz artists past and present.”
Almarie Wagner
