In Chip Deffaa's fourth collection we meet 14 dedicated musicians_none of whom (except for Marty Grosz) has ever before been profiled in a book_who fight to sustain early styles of jazz. How did they become champions of music from before their time? And how best, in their options, can classic jazz be kept alive? They include Vince Giordano, pianist Terry Waldo, banjoist Eddy Davis, cornetist Peter Ecklund, clarinetist Orange Kellin, guitarist Marty Grosz, clarinetist Joe Muranyi, trumpeter Richard Sudhalter, trombonist Dan Barrett, cornetist Ed Polcer, clarinetist Stan Rubin, singers Carrie Smith and Sandra-Reaves Philips, and Vernel Bagneris, multi-talented facilitator of revival.
