Second edition of this classic book with a new postscript and a fresh
selection of photos. First published in 1973 and out of print for many
years. Available in bookshops now (hardback, ISBN 9780955090868,
recommended retail price 15.99, 220 pages).
Music Outside captures the spirit, optimism and creativity of
contemporary jazz in Britain in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Carr was
an important part of the action as well as a sharp observer of it and he
wrote about his friends and colleagues, his jazz contemporaries, the
people who made the jazz world come alive at one of the most exciting
times in its recent history.
Carr's profiles and in-depth interviews with leading musicians and
composers document the range of their ideas, their influences, their
enthusiasms and their often heroic efforts to continue working in
jazz.
The musicians interviewed include Mike Westbrook, Jon Hiseman, John
Stevens, Trevor Watts, Evan Parker, Mike Gibbs, and Chris McGregor with
the Brotherhood of Breath.
Ian Carr is well-known as an imaginative and ground-breaking jazz
trumpeter and bandleader, the author of acclaimed biographies of Miles
Davis and Keith Jarrett and co-author of The Rough Guide to Jazz.
