ASK ME NOW: Conversations on Jazz & Literature

Feinstein, Sascha (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0253349516 / ISBN 13: 9780253349514

Published by Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 2007

About this Item

"Featured artists include central figures of the Black Arts Movement such as Amiri Baraka, Jayne Cortez, Haki R. Madhubuti, and Sonia Sanchez as well as distinguished music critics Gary Giddins, Dan Morgenstern, and Eugene B. Redmond. Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry Yusef Komunyakaa and Philip Levine, outstanding jazz musicians Bill Crow and Fred Hersch, and several writers who cross literary genres: Hayden Carruth, Cornelius Eady, David Jauss, William Matthews, Lee Meitzen Grue, John Sinclair, and Al Young all contribute their thoughts to the book." Textual photographs. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with green titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: ASK ME NOW: Conversations on Jazz & Literature
• Publisher: Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0253349516
• ISBN 13: 9780253349514
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Jazz

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Synopsis

"Ask Me Now" explores the relationship between the language of music and the music of language with 20 conversations on jazz and literature. Writer, editor, and saxophonist Sascha Feinstein gathers a variety of artists, poets, musicians, fiction writers, essayists, playwrights, and record producers for discussions on the elusive but engaging relationships between jazz and literature. Featured artists include central figures of the Black Arts Movement such as Amiri Baraka, Jayne Cortez, Haki R. Madhubuti, and Sonia Sanchez as well as distinguished music critics Gary Giddins, Dan Morgenstern, and Eugene B. Redmond. Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry Yusef Komunyakaa and Philip Levine, outstanding jazz musicians Bill Crow and Fred Hersch, and several writers who cross literary genres: Hayden Carruth, Cornelius Eady, David Jauss, William Matthews, Lee Meitzen Grue, John Sinclair, and Al Young all contribute their thoughts to the book.

Review

"This is the most interesting, in-depth, valuable, and various account of the connection between jazz and literature ever put into print." Ed Pavlic, Director, Program in Creative Writing, University of Georgia & author of Labors lost left unfinished "The interviewees cover a wide range from jazz-aware poets to literature-aware jazzers...many of the litterateurs not only have genuine enthusiasm for the music but seem to know an awful lot about it...Feinstein's agenda is all about proving that poets have a right to draw on jazz for inspiration." Brian Priestley, Jazzwise, August 2008