Black music essays / by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka).

Author/creator Baraka, Amiri
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Akashic ; London : Turnaround [distributor],
Description253 p. ; 21 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Public Library Complete
Subjects
African Americans--Music. --History and criticism.
Jazz--History and criticism.

SeriesAkashiClassics renegade reprint series
Contents Jazz and the white critic -- Minton's -- Dark lady of the sonnets -- Recent monk -- Three ways to play the saxophone -- A day with Roy Haynes -- Sonny Rollins (Our Man in Jazz) -- A jazz great: John Coltrane -- Coltrane live at Birdland -- The jazz avant-garde -- Introducing Wayne Shorter -- Introducing Dennis Charles -- New York loft and coffee shop jazz -- Introducing Bobby Bradford -- Present perfect (Cecil Taylor) -- Cecil Taylor (The World of Cecil Taylor) -- Apple cores #1 -- Apple cores #2 -- Apple cores #3 -- Apple cores #4 -- Apple cores #5 -- The Burton Greene affair -- Apple cores #6 -- New tenor Archie Shepp talking -- Four for Trane (Archie Shepp) -- Don Cherry -- New black music: A concert in benefit of the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School Live -- Sonny's time now (Sonny Murray) -- The changing same (R&B and new black music) -- A brief discography of new music -- Interview with Amiri Baraka / by Calvin Reid (2009).
Abstract Discusses modern jazz movements and musicians, including Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Cecil Taylor, Eric Dolphy, Archie Shepp, and Sun-Ra.
Bibliography noteIncludes discography (p. [242]-244) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2009923185
ISBN9781933354934 (pbk.)
ISBN1933354933 (pbk.)

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