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Title: You Can't Steal a Gift: Dizzy, Clark, Milt, and Nat by Gene Lees, Nat Hentoff ISBN: 0-8032-8034-3 Publisher: Bison Bks Corp Pub. Date: March, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: An accurate history of great musicians
Comment: First- and second-person history as practised by Gene Lees and Nat Hentoff is accurate, human, informative, entertaining and deeply satisfying. It is also a refreshing palliative to the third- and fourth-hand histories that often pass for fact nowadays. To refer to Lees' writings on race as "ranting," as one reviwer has it, with that word's connotation of violence, polarizes the matter and misrepresents the thought and care that have gone into this book's discussion of race. To "skip all that," would be to remain ignorant and in denial of what it took for the four subjects of the book to achieve their status in the pantheon of American artists. Don't skip all that: read the whole thing to learn, from the artists themselves and the people close to them, more about Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Milt Hinton and Nat King Cole and to understand the social environment they lived and worked in.

Rating: 3
Summary: Flawed but nice
Comment: This is a fun read, essays on four jazz greats based largely on personal recollections. But there is just too much of the author, a failing in all of Lees' books. We must endure his rantings on race (the man still thinks it's 1955) and politics. Indeed, race is the focus for the book, even at times overshadowing the musicians and jazz. Skip all of that, and there is much to learn and to be enjoyed.

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