Barney, Bradley, and Max: 16 Portraits in Jazz

AUTHOR: Whitney Balliett 
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 
FORMAT: Hardcover 
PAGES: 213 
RETAIL PRICE: $9.95 
CONDITION: Used-Excellent. Dust jacket lightly worn and discolored, no pencil/pen markings.

In this collection, esteemed jazz critic Whitney Balliett presents sixteen profiles of notable jazz musicians, offering readers an intimate look into their lives and artistry. The book serves as a supplement to his earlier work, American Musicians, with seven of the profiles appearing in book form for the first time. JazzTimes notes that Balliett's pieces often include monologues, providing a compressed yet rich slice of the subjects' lives, filled with autobiographical details.