The jazz fiction anthology
By: edited by Sascha Feinstein & David Rife.
Contributors: Feinstein, Sascha, 1963- ed.; Rife, David, 1937- ed.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9780253353818; 9780253221377
Subjects: Short stories; Jazz in literature
Description: A gathering of the best jazz fiction from the 1920s to the present, this anthology includes 20th-century fiction by Eudora Welty, James Baldwin, Richard Yates, and others, plus important recent work from writers such as Yusef Komunyakaa, Xu Xi, and Amiri Baraka. Together these artists demonstrate the strong influence of jazz on fiction. That influence can be felt in prose styles shaped by jazz -- freewheeling, dramatic, conversational, improvisatory; in stories of players and listeners searching for what lies beyond the music's aesthetic power; and in the ambience of the jazz performance as captured by the written word. What sounds throughout these stories is the universal voice of humanity that is the essence of the music.
Table of contents: title: The barrier  -- Don Asher; title: Sonny's blues  -- James Baldwin; title: Medley  -- Toni Cade Bambara; title: Norman's date  -- Amiri Baraka; title: The screamers  -- Amiri Baraka; title: Singing Dinah's song  -- Frank London Brown; title: A woman who plays trumpet is deported  -- Michelle Cliff; title: Jazz at twelve  -- Wanda Coleman; title: Bix Beiderbecke  -- Julio Cortázar; title: The pursuer  -- Julio Cortázar; title: Swingtime  -- Kiki DeLancey; title: A coupla scalped Indians  -- Ralph Ellison; title: Common meter  -- Rudolph Fisher; title: Blues for Little Prez  -- Sam Greenlee; title: Tenorman: a novella  -- David Huddle; title: The blues I'm playing  -- Langston Hughes; title: Old ghost revives atavistic memories in a lady of the DAR  -- Langston Hughes; title: Dead jazz guys  -- Phil Kawana; title: Buddy's monologue  -- Yusef Komunyakaa; title: Miss Brown to you  -- Ellen Jordis Lewis; title: Rossonian days  -- William Henry Lewis --Lush life / -- John McCluskey, Jr.; title: Child's play  -- Bill Moody; title: The shrimp peel gig  -- James Reed; title: The end of Bull Mácha  -- Josef Škvorecký; title: You're too hip, baby  -- Terry Southern; title: The jazz baby  -- Julian Street; title: Round about close to midnight  -- Boris Vian; title: Powerhouse  -- Eudora Welty; title: The silence of Thelonious Monk  -- John Edgar Wideman; title: Jazz wife  -- Xu Xi; title: A really good jazz piano -- Richard Yates.