Julie Coryell (interviews)/Laura Friedman (photos) : Jazz Rock - Fusion (first edition 1978)  

I found this book, which seems to be out of print a while ago on Amazon marketplace.

The book presents a collection of interviews and photos of musicians linked more or less to the Jazz Rock/ Fusion field and are divided by instrument. For each artist there is a biography, an interview by the late Julie Coryell, a photo by Laura Friedman and a selected discography.  Among the musicians featured are Jaco Pastorius, Michael Brecker, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Stanley Clarke, Freddie Hubbard, Roy Ayers, Ron Carter, Chick Corea, George Benson, Flora Purim among more then a hundred. The book was first published in 1978.

 

The interviews follow all the same pattern starting with the question of the first contact with music and ending with the appreciation of the Jazz Rock/ Fusion genre. The idea is interesting and the interviews are a good read, but it gets a bit boring after a couple of interviews seen that the formal structure is so similar. I read the book for about 6 Months reading each time not more then 4 or 5 interviews. The fact that all musicians are filed according to their instruments might depend on your taste for comparative reading. The photos are nice but not outstanding.

 

All in all, an interesting book, even so a bit difficult to read the whole book in one go.