Moment's Notice Jazz in Poetry and Prose

Name: Moment's Notice Jazz in Poetry and Prose
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ISBN: 9781566890014

ISBN-10: 1566890012

ISBN-13: 9781566890014

Edition: N/A

Authors: Art Lange, Nathaniel Mackey

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The editors have collected the jazz-inspired works of close to sixty writers ranging from Julio Cortazar and Jessica Hagedorn to Langston Hughes and Ishmael Reed."Moment's Noticeis the best anthology of jazz literature I've ever seen."--Bart Schneider,Hungry Mind Review¶"The jazz anthology to end all jazz anthologies."--Booklist

Book details

List price: $24.00
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Publication date: 7/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.90" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232

Nathaniel Mackey, recipient of a 1993 Whiting Writers' Award, is the author of Eroding Witness (1985), School of Udhra (1993), Whatsaid Serif (1998), Bedouin Hornbook (1986), and Djbot Baghosus's Run (1993), as well as Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance Cross-Culturality, and Experimental Writing (1993). He teaches literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz.



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Projection



Flatted Fifths



Jam Session



Be-Bop Boys



Song for Billie Holiday



Soledad



Hopscotch



Louis, Super-Cronopio



Giuffe's Nightmusic



He Don't Plant Cotton



Clock



Freedom and Discipline



Three Paragraphs



The Subterraneans



Let's All Hear It for Mildred Bailey!



Sonny's Blues



Listening to Sonny Rollins at the Five Spot



Chasing the Bird



Song for Bird and Myself



Streets of Gold



Chorus: Wing



The Day Lady Died



Garden



For Miles



The Planets



Full Circle



Miles



Battle Report



Walking Parker Home



O-JAZZ-O War Memoir: Jazz, Don't Listen To It At Your Own Risk



The Rare Birds



In the Tradition



Now and Then



Answers in Progress



String of Pearls



Will the Circle Be Unbroken?



Foo to the Infinite



Bud Powell, 1925-1966



Newark



19



The End of an Ethnic Dream



Rose Solitude



Solo Finger Solo



I See Chano Pozo



Tapping



17:II:82



18:VI:82



Don't Say Goodbye to the Porkpie Hat



Harlem Gallery: From the Inside



A Narrative of the Life and Times of John Coltrane: Played by Himself



For Bud



Peace on Earth



Driving the Big Chrysler across the Country of My Birth



Finding a Chet Baker Album in the Dimestore



Filling the Gap



Blue Gene



Wintersong



Blues for Dan Morin



Poetry Makes Rhythm in Philosophy



Lake Bud



Rhymes with Monk



Of What The Music to Me



Africa, Music and Show Business



Body and Soul



Moody's Mood for Love



Lester Leaps In



Topsy: Part 2



Dance of the Infidels



The Depression



Lennie Tristano, No Wind



Little Light



Sonny Rollins



A Coltrane Memorial



Thelonious Sphere Monk



Giant Steps



Coming Through Slaughter



Four and More; for Miles Davis



Snake-Back Solo



Leaving Los Angeles



To the Pianist Bill Evans



Tampa Red's Contemporary Blues



Wonders



Historiography



Cousin Mary



but, ruby my dear



Capricorn Rising



"John Coltrane Arrived with an Egyptian Lady"



Bedouin Hornbook



okra to greens



rite-ing



Be-Bop, Re-Bop



Expandable Language



C. T.'s variation



Rogue and Jar: 4/27/77



Solea



Like Cities, Like Storms



Love Poem



The Coming of John



Words and Music in America



The Funky Butt Legacy Song



Fire Parcel



The Circle with a Hole in the Middle



A Fine Line



Mbizo



A White Line



To The Great Hard-Bop Pianists



Biographical Notes



Acknowledgments



Author/Title Index