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Best of
Jazz

1966

Black Music

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jazz

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Amiri Baraka - 1966

In the essay “Jazz and the White Critic” LeRoi Jones observes: “Most jazz critics have been white Americans, but most important jazz musicians have not been.” In Black Music, his perceptive and provocative collection of articles, reviews, profiles, interviews, liner notes, and new essays, Jones has offered a remedy of sorts.

In brilliant discussions of Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Don Cherry, and Sun-Ra, he examines each musician’s personality, background, musical ambitions, accomplishments, and disappointments, to illuminate both the context and spirit of jazz.

Four Lives in the Bebop Business

A.B. Spellman - 1966

The lives of Herbie Nichols, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, and Jackie McLean are dicussed through biographical sketches and quotations.

Photographs are included.

Best ofJazz

1966

Black Music

Four Lives in the Bebop Business

Best of
Jazz