Reddit reviews Lost Chords: White Musicians and their Contribution to Jazz, 1915-1945

In these politically correct times any explicit recognition of white achievement in certain areas of endeavor, of which jazz is one, is in danger of being taken as a backhanded attempt to denigrate black achievement. This is not the intent. Everyone deserves their due.

History clearly tells us that a distinct, significant, and creative white presence had existed in jazz from its early days and that black contemporaries were unhesitating in expressing mutual respect for Beiderbecke, Rollini, Teagarden, Mole, Trumbauer, Brown, Tough, Freeman, Russell, and numerous other white musicians. The true history of jazz is a depiction of cooperation, mutual admiration, cross-fertilization and the coming together all despite the segregation of the larger American society

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