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Hardcover in publisher’s non price-clipped dust-jacket. 272 pages. Index. First edition, first printing with full number line. A collection of various essays by noted music critic Martin Williams, gathering herein many of his best pieces and covering new ground with short columns on Teddy Wilson, George Winston , et al. Written at the dawn of the last decade of the 20th century, Williams writes that jazz is experiencing a period of “stylistic retrenchment” and also questions the fusion of jazz and rock as an ‘artistic blind alley’ and commercial opportunism. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine in a near fine dust-jacket.