■ Toward Jazz A Da Capo Press Reprint Series THE ROOTS OF JAZZ General Editor: Christopher W. White Director, Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies Newark College of Arts & Sciences Andre Hodeir Toward Jazz Translated by Noel Burch DA CAPO PRESS . NEW YORK • 1976 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Hodeir, Andre, 1921- Toward jazz. (The Roots of jazz) Reprint of the 1962 ed. published by Grove, New York. 1. Jazz music — Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Title. [ML3561.J3H663 1976] 785.4’2 76-7568 ISBN 0-306-70810-8 This Da Capo Press edition of Toward Jazz is an unabridged republication of the first edition published in New York in 1962. It is reprinted with the permission of Grove Press, Inc. Copyright © 1962 by Grove Press, Inc. Published by Da Capo Press, Inc. A Subsidiary of Plenum Publishing Corporation 227 West 17th Street, New York, N. Y. 10011 All Rights Reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Toward Jazz Other books by Andre Hodeir Jazz: Its Evolution and Essence Since Debussy: A View of Contemporary Music