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The Jazz Exiles: American Musicians Abroad
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Overview
The Jazz Exiles chronicles the expatriate movement of American jazz musicians during the post-World War II era. While the term exile normally conjures up images of ousted Third World leaders or deposed kings, it is as much a part of the jazz vocabulary as improvisation or Birdland. Like the American writers of the 1920s who went to Europe and became Gertrude Stein's "lost generation," jazz musicians from the United States also made the Atlantic crossing at a steadily increasing rate until many of the major names in jazz lived or worked almost exclusively abroad. Throughout The Jazz Exiles, the musicians speak for themselves in describing their motivation for joining the exodus to Europe, which is now regarded as the third ...