The record changer (Jan-Dec 1949)

NOW READY A Three-Part Yearbook Containing These Features: I. FORECAST A Jazz Symposium by Sidney Finkelstein, Thurman and Mary Grove, John W. Rippin, Sinclair Traill, Daniel Pascoli, Arne Berg and Mario A. Toseana Pouchan II. CURRENT JAZZ A. New Orleans Jazz Today in Pictures B. Index to Available Records III. HISTORY A. Survey of Recording Labels B. Report on Index to Jazz C. Jazz Bibliography by H. 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Winner of the George Washington Carver award, and of a truly overwhelming amount of critical acclaim, Bucklin Moon's fourth book and second novel has very little in it about jazz. That little is purely incidental to a story about Negro life in Florida, a story that manages to avoid the standard novelists' cliches about violence, lynching and miscegenation. We bring it to the attention of the readers of this specialized magazine partly because Moon is a regular contributor and a noted collector, and even more because it is, in the words of the New York Post's book reviewer : "The best novel about Negroes ever written by either a white or a Negro." Since the book lies outside the jazz field, and since its author is so closely connected with the Changer, we refrain from a personal review of it, offering instead brief and enthusiastic quotes from probably more impressive sources : New York Times (Charles Poore) : "... a prize-winning novel in every way." 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