Black music
Subtitle: essays
By: by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)
Series: AkashiClassics renegade reprint series
Publisher: Akashic; Turnaround [distributor]
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781933354934
Description: Discusses modern jazz movements and musicians, including Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Cecil Taylor, Eric Dolphy, Archie Shepp, and Sun-Ra.
Notes: Includes discography (p. [242]-244) and index.
Table of contents: title: Jazz and the white critic --; title: Minton's --; title: Dark lady of the sonnets --; title: Recent monk --; title: Three ways to play the saxophone --; title: A day with Roy Haynes --; title: Sonny Rollins (Our Man in Jazz) --; title: A jazz great: John Coltrane --; title: Coltrane live at Birdland --; title: The jazz avant-garde --; title: Introducing Wayne Shorter --; title: Introducing Dennis Charles --; title: New York loft and coffee shop jazz --; title: Introducing Bobby Bradford --; title: Present perfect (Cecil Taylor) --; title: Cecil Taylor (The World of Cecil Taylor) --; title: Apple cores #1 --; title: Apple cores #2 --; title: Apple cores #3 --; title: Apple cores #4 --; title: Apple cores #5 --; title: The Burton Greene affair --; title: Apple cores #6 --; title: New tenor Archie Shepp talking --; title: Four for Trane (Archie Shepp) --; title: Don Cherry --; title: New black music: A concert in benefit of the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School Live --; title: Sonny's time now (Sonny Murray) --; title: The changing same (R&B and new black music) --; title: A brief discography of new music --; title: Interview with Amiri Baraka -- by Calvin Reid-- (2009).