New York Post jazz critic Deffaa has interviewed famous and not-so-famous jazz musicians, many of whom have not been profiled before. Eighteen profiles mostly in the words of the musicians themselves
Portraits of eight popular musicians--Sam Wooding, Jimmy McPartland, Bix Beiderbecke, Bud Freeman, Joe Tarto, Benny Waters, Freddie Moore, and Jabbo Smith--offer an evocative study of jazz music durin
This explosive autobiographical volume is about entertainer Jerry Castaldo growing up on the mean streets of Brooklyn, NY, his agonizing descent into the darkness of the city's underbelly and his desp
