Conversations in Jazz: The Ralph J. Gleason Interviews Jon Savage expectation and regret

expectation and regret

But surprises aren’t always good

enviable friends and near-perfect days passed skating on a frozen river or sunning on the beach

Van Morrison's 'Astral Weeks' failed to make the charts when it was released in the fall of 1968

that we all face in our lives

Conversations in Jazz: The Ralph J. Gleason Interviews Jon Savage expectation and regretAn extraordinary collection of revealing, personal interviews with fourteen jazz music legends. During his nearly forty years as a music journalist, Ralph J. Gleason recorded many in depth interviews with some of the greatest jazz musicians of all time. These informal sessions, conducted mostly in Gleasons Berkeley, California, home, have never been transcribed and published in full until now. This remarkable volume, a must read for any jazz fan,