The Jazz Life — Dinosaurs in the Morning: Whitney Balliett
A Book about Jazz and Jazz Musicians
Back in 1962, when Whitney Balliett’s book, Dinosaurs in the Morning, was first published in the US, Jazz was serious stuff: an important part of life, and not just the musical side of life, but life, in fact it had become — with the arrival of machine-gun fast Bebop in the late 1940s — an art form, which took most of the older…