Jazz inchiesta: Italia : il jazz negli anni '70 (Italy: jazz in the 70s)

"Who is the man of Italian jazz? A poet or a craftsman of music? Who is the Italian jazz critic? A journalist who has just come from Cantagiro? A failed musician? An avant-gardist for political creed or a conservative for cultural inadequacy? And for the crowd, Italian jazz is what it is "Jazz Investigation: Italy", a book on Italian jazz, proposes answers to these questions more with the purpose of "stimulating information" than of "learned" treatment of the jazz music phenomenon in Italy. It is a journalistic narrative formed by the testimonies of musicians, critics, actors, students, all the plates of an alternating mosaic in a seemingly casual way, a sequence that has the rhythm and visceral of jazz ". The "cover notes" of the original edition, published in 1971, would suffice to explain why, today more than ever, it is necessary not only to republish a similar book, but to relocate it in the context from which it came off. Afterword and discography by Roberto Arcuri.