The overarching goal of As Long As They Can Blow is to show the mutual respect that black and white jazz musicians had for each other and how a shared love of the music and the relative privacy of the recording studio resulted in hundreds of early interracial jazz recordings.The book doesn't fall into any single genre. At its heart is the first discography of these sessions ever put together and a concise list that can be used for quick access to those sessions. There is a brief hi...