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Copyright © 2008 by Ben Ratliff
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“Closer and Closer Apart” written by Mary Chapin Carpenter, © 2007 Why Walk Music
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Some material in this book previously appeared, in slightly different form, in The New York Times.

 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

 

Ratliff, Ben.

The jazz ear: conversations over music / Ben Ratliff.—1st ed.

      p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN: 978-0-8050-9086-4

I. Jazz musicians—Interviews. I. Title.

ML394.R38 2008

781.65092'2—dc22

2008010122

 

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Originally published in hardcover in 2008 by Times Books

 

First paperback edition 2009

 

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