Black Music - Softcover

Baraka, Imamu Amiri

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0306808145 ISBN 13: 9780306808142

Publisher: Da Capo Pr, 1998

Synopsis

In the essay “Jazz and the White Critic” LeRoi Jones observes: “Most jazz critics have been white Americans, but most important jazz musicians have not been.” In Black Music, his perceptive and provocative collection of articles, reviews, profiles, interviews, liner notes, and new essays, Jones has offered a remedy of sorts. In brilliant discussions of Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Don Cherry, and Sun-Ra, he examines each musician’s personality, background, musical ambitions, accomplishments, and disappointments, to illuminate both the context and spirit of jazz.

About this title

Review:

"[Jones writes] with an excitement and empathy and terrific knack for the true colloquial phrase, the right feeling." --Kirkus Reviews

About the Author:

LeRoi Jones (now known as Amiri Baraka) is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He was named Poet Laureate of New Jersey by the N.J. Commission on Humanities, from 2002-2004. His last two books of poetry, Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems and Un Poco Low Coup received tremendous critical acclaim.

About this edition

• Publisher: Da Capo Pr
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0306808145
• ISBN 13: 9780306808142
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 221