Book of the Year

Billy Hart's OCEANS OF TIME

Thanks to the Jazz Journalists Association for selecting Oceans of Time: The Musical Autobiography of Billy Hart as Jazz Book of the Year: Biography or Autobiography.

The book is available through Amazon. Don’t be afraid of leaving a review!

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The other contenders were a very strong group:

• Concerto for Cootie: The Life and Times of Cootie Williams
  (University Press of Mississippi), by Steven C. Bowie

• Stomp Off, Let’s Go: The Early Years of Louis Armstrong
  (Oxford University Press), by Ricky Riccardi

• The Master of Drums: Gene Krupa and the Music He Gave the World (Citadel Press) by Elizabeth J. Rosenthal

The full list of other winners in all categories is at the JJA site. Oh: Look at that! Billy Hart is also drummer of the year.