Black Music

by Baraka, Imamu Amiri

• ISBN13: 9780306808142
• ISBN10: 0306808145
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-03-21
• Publisher: Da Capo Pr

Summary

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." InBlack 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.

Table of Contents

1963 - Jazz and the White Critic	p. 11
1962 - Minton's	p. 21
1962 - Dark Lady of the Sonnets	p. 25
1963 - Recent Monk	p. 26
1963 - Three Ways to Play the Saxophone	p. 35
1963 - A Day With Roy Haynes	p. 42
1964 - Sonny Rollins (Our Man in Jazz)	p. 52
1963 - A Jazz Great: John Coltrane	p. 56
1964 - Coltrane Live at Birdland	p. 63
1961 - The Jazz Avant-grade	p. 69
1959 - Introducing Wayne Shorter	p. 81
1963 - Introducing Dennis Charles	p. 87
1963 - New York Loft and Coffee Shop Jazz	p. 92
1962 - Introducing Bobby Bradford	p. 99
1962 - Present Perfect (Cecil Taylor)	p. 104
1962 - Cecil Taylor (The World of Cecil Taylor)	p. 110
1964 - Apple Cores # 1	p. 113
1965 - Apple Cores #2	p. 121
1966 - Apple Cores #3	p. 126
1966 - Apple Cores #4	p. 132
1966 - Apple Cores #5 - The Burton Greene Affair	p. 136
1966 - Apple Cores #6	p. 140
1965 - New Tenor Archie Shepp Talking	p. 145
1965 - Four for Trane (Archie Shepp)	p. 156
1963 - Don Cherry	p. 162
1965 - New Black Music: A Concert in Benefit of The Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School Live	p. 172
1967 - Sonny's Time Now (Sonny Murray)	p. 177
1966 - The Changing Same (RandB and New Black Music)	p. 180
A Brief Discography of New Music	p. 213
Index	p. 215
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