Jazz Profiles covers both the music's rich history and the fresh excitement that today's prominent and rising young stars are generating.  Reginald Carver, an attorney and jazz fan himself, spotlights forty jazz musicians in profiles that include biographical information, interview excerpts, and select discographies.

Each profile begins with a background that covers the artist's influences and experiences in the music profession.  The extensive interview section that follows provides a vivid understanding of the musician's personality and perspective.

The discography, which lists the artist's best recorded jazz, is a useful reference tool.  The book is divided into eight chapters, featuring trumpeters, saxophonists and clarinetists, trombonists, guitarists, pianists and organists, bassists, drummers, and vocalists.  You'll meet renowned artists and the ascending, critically acclaimed young musicians of today's jazz world as well.