Considering Genius Writings on Jazz

Name: Considering Genius Writings on Jazz
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ISBN: 9780465015122

ISBN-10: 0465015123

ISBN-13: 9780465015122

Edition: 2007

Authors: Stanley Crouch

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From the preeminent--and always controversial--jazz critic and intellectual firebrand Stanley Crouch, the long-awaited collections of essential essays on the great music and performers of the jazz world.

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 4/10/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Stanley Crouch is a contributing editor toThe New Republic,a Sunday columnist for the New YorkDaily News,and a frequent panelist onThe Charlie Rose Show.He is the author ofThe All-American Skin Game(which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award) andNotes of a Hanging Judge.For years a jazz critic and staff writer for theVillage Voice,he is Artistic Consultant to Jazz at Lincoln Center. He lives in New York City. From the Hardcover edition.



Prologue: Jazz Me Blues


The Makers



Miles Davis in the Fever of Spring, 1961 1998



Bird Land: Charlie Parker, Clint Eastwood, and America 1989



Papa Dip: Crescent City Conquistador and Sacrificial Hero Louis Armstrong 1985



Not So Dizzy 1989



At the Five Spot Thelonious Monk 1977



Ahmad Jamal 1989



Himself When He Was Real: The Art of Charles Mingus 1994



Blues for the Space Age Ornette Coleman 2002



Titan of the Blues John Coltrane 1987



Andrew Hill's Alternative Avant-Garde 1984



Rooster Ben: King of Romance Ben Webster 1986



The Last of the Great Bandleaders Sun Ra 1982



Don't Ask the Critics: Ask Wallace Roney's Peers 2000



Duke Ellington: Transcontinental Swing 1998


Thoughts



Martin's Tempo 1992



The Late, Late Blues: Jazz Modernism 2004



Blues to Be Constitutional 1995



Body and Soul, 1983


Battle Royal



JazzTimes Columns: Introduction



Jazz Tradition Is Not Innovation January 2002



The Negro Aesthetic of Jazz October 2002



Coltrane Derailed September 2002



Jazz Criticism and Its Effect on the Art Form September 1986



Jazz's Own Sweet Time November 2002



Putting the White Man in Charge April 2003



Piano Prodigy May 2003


Detours Ahead



On the Corner: The Sellout of Miles Davis 1986


The Way It Was, The Way It Is



Come Sunday Duke Ellington, Mahalia Jackson 2004



The Presence Is Always the Point 2000



Live at the Village Vanguard Wynton Marsalis 1999


Epilogue


Index