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# Bop Apocalypse: Jazz, Race, the Beats, and Drugs Hardcover – Illustrated, January 24, 2017

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐ 2.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Not for Jazz Lovers
  

*by C***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 16, 2018*

I had fairly high expectations for this book.  I hoped it would be, at least in part, the book that has yet to be written about the way that addiction shaped the development of jazz.  I should have known better than to have wasted my time with it when I looked through the index and found no entry for Art Pepper.  Pepper's autobiography "Straight Life" is listed in the bibliography, but I doubt that Torgoff ever read the most revealing book about the impact of heroin addiction on jazz.  The book veers back and forth between the beat poets and jazz musicians, and ultimately says very little about the music.  Also, it focuses on only a handful of musicians, and doesn't even reach the subject of how narcotics influenced who played with whom, and who was limited in their ability to play with other musicians by incarceration and how that influenced the way the music evolved.  An illustrative example would have been the great alto saxophonist Frank Morgan, whose style was frozen by virtue of being removed from the scene by 30-some-odd years in prison, many spent in San Quentin where he would have met Art Pepper (but no mention of either man).  He emerged as a paragon of a style that still had currency among jazz listeners, but could never catch up to contemporary players.  One learns a lot more about how heroin affected jazz from the recent Frank Morgan documentary "Sound of Redemption" than from this book, and one would learn much, much more from "Straight Life."I also find the Torgoff's writing to be rather over-caffeinated.  He greatly admires Stanley Crouch's book on Charlie Parker, which is a stylistic abomination.  Torgoff's prose is not as awful as Crouch's, but I found it consistently annoying.  There are also some howling mistakes, as when he refers to Faulkner's having written about a real Yoknapatawpha County in Mississippi, when actually Faulkner was writing about Lafayette County, which he fictionalized as Yoknapatawpha County.  That failure of fact-checking made me wonder how many of the other assertions in the book were similarly wrong.

### ⭐⭐ 2.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Mispronouncing too many names; unintentionally humorous accents.
  

*by T***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 1, 2017*

There were far too many mispronounced names to be an enjoyable listen. Beiderbecke and Bechet may not be household names ourside of jazz, but no one within the jazz world has any doubt as to the correct pronunciation. He misses on dozens of names: Amram and Lowell (MA) are a couple more that come to mind. He even spoke of a record company, using the verb form of record (accent on the second syllable).Furthermore, the book is full of quotes, and the reader puts on what he deems to be an appropriate accent for each person. This takes away from the narrative, with some of the voices being downright funny, and not reminiscent of the original speaker in any way.As for the book itself, it contains a lot of information, presented in a folksy, non academic manner.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    old jazz history
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 10, 2020*

The book starts out with some new drug war history I did not know. After a while it mostly tells the sad old stories most well informed jazz fans know about drugs, jazz musicians and the beat generation.  Just too many old stories for me.

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