A Night in Tunisia

by Weinstein, Norman C.

• ISBN13: 9780879101671
• ISBN10: 0879101679
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-08-01
• Publisher: Limelight Editions

Summary

"...his economical writing style ... manages to pack lots of information - and opinion - into a few carefully chosen words ... Besides detail work well-grounded in scholarship...the author isn't afraid to interpolate such generalizations and speculations as he sees fit; he may be the Stephen Hawking of jazz criticism." - Bob Tarte, The Beat

Table of Contents

Contents
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Opening Night in Tunisia: An Introduction	p. 1
Earliest Intimations of a Return to the Motherland	p. 21
Madame Zzaj Testifies Why a Drum Is a Woman	p. 37
"A Night in Tunisia": The Evolution of a Standard	p. 48
John Coltrane: Sounding the African Cry for Paradise	p. 60
George Russell Teaches Us to Play the African Game	p. 73
John Carter: The Play of Roots and Folklore	p. 82
Count Ossie and the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari: To Mozambique Via Marcus Garvey Drive	p. 94
Randy Weston: Talking Piano Like a Drum Shouting Freedom	p. 107
Max Roach: Drumming the Tales of African and African-American Liberation	p. 118
Pierre Dorge: Travelling Through a New World Jungle Armed with Guitar and Orchestra	p. 127
Archie Shepp: Magical Portraits for the Diaspora	p. 135
Yusef Lateef: Re-Visioning the Geography of the Blues	p. 145
Sunny Murray and the Creation of Time	p. 159
Ronald Shannon Jackson: Journey to Africa Without End	p. 166
Beyond the Americanization of Ooga Booga: Charting the Pathways of Afrocentric Imagination	p. 176
Chapter Notes	p. 184
Discography I	p. 199
Discography II	p. 208
Selected Playlists of the African Theme	p. 226
Index	p. 233
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