Surprises: Jazzy, Folky and Otherwise.

Helen Merrill and Dick Katz By the mid-1960s jazz was obviously not popular music anymore. Gigs were scarcer; great musicians were leaving the country or looking for work on television shows. But all this had an upside too. Jazz was becoming wise, strange and bitter, a dream world full of wide-open space or density, meta-thoughts and paradoxical impulses. The history of this period isn't well lighted by CD reissues, and still brings forth surprises. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]