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"Irrawaddy Tango" Starts Strong, but Peters Out.

Commentator Maureen Corrigan reviews "Irrawaddy Tango," by Burmese novelist Wendy Law-Yone.

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, February 21, 1994: interview with Nathan McCall; Interview with Arthur Taylor; Review of Wendy Law-Yone's novel "Irrawaddy Tango."
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Jazz Musician and Author Arthur Taylor.

Drummer Arthur Taylor. He's played with Sonny Rollins, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk and he's put together a new expanded collection of interviews he's done with fellow musicians: "Notes and Tones: Musician-to-Musician Interviews," (Da Capo Press). It's one of the few books about black jazz musicians by a black man, and because of that Taylor's subjects were able to talk freely about the role of black artists in white society.

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