Seeing Jazz
Subtitle: Artists and Writers on Jazz
Contributors: Clark Terry (Foreword); Milt Hinton (Afterword)
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: October 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780811817325
Subjects: Blues; Jazz; Music/Songbooks; Music; Genres & Styles - Jazz; Music / Jazz
Description: Seeing Jazz collects more than one hundred works of art influenced by the liberating forces of jazz. More than sixty-five selections from celebrated writers bring the sounds of jazz to the mind's eye including pieces by Toni Morrison, Julio Cortazar, Jack Kerouac, Rita Dove, Michael Ondaatje, Langston Hughes, and many others.

With a foreword by jazz great Clark Terry, an introduction by jazz scholar Robert O'Meally, and an afterword by celebrated double bass player Milt Hinton, this exhilarating concert of music, art, and literature will enthrall jazz fans, art lovers, and literary hipsters alike.