Jazz Masters Of The 50's By Joe Goldberg
Da Capo Press, New York, 1983
Da Capo Press, New York, 1983, republication of the 1965 Edition, First Thus, supplemented with new photo insert.

The fifties was one of the most fervent decades in jazz history. In this series of profiles, Joe Goldberg examines the lives and the music, the crucial events and dominant forces of a decade of great music and conflicting esthetics: Miles Davis's recording of Kind of Blue; Gerry Mulligan's pianoless quartet; Cecil Taylor's percussive keyboard experiments; John Coltrane's and Sonny Rollins's marathon saxophone solos; MJQ's blending of classical structure and jazz improvisation; Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz. 
From Mingus to Monk to Blakey, it was an age of giants.