Jones (Amiri Baraka) Leroi

Black Music: Open Road Media (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Jones has learned-and this has been very rare in jazz criticism-to write about music as an artist."-Nat Hentoff ks

Black Music is a book about the brilliant young jazz musicians of the early 1960s: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, and others. It is composed of essays, reviews, interviews, liner notes, musical analyses, and personal impressions from 1959-1967. Also includes Amiri Baraka's reflections in a 2009 interview with Calvin Reid of Publishers Weekly.

LeRoi Jones (now known as Amiri Baraka) is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He was named Poet Laureate of New Jersey from 2002 to 2004 by the New Jersey Commission on Humanities. His most recent book, Tales of the Out & the Gone (Akashic Books, 2007), was a New York Times Editors' Choice and winner of a PEN/Beyond Margins Award. He lives in Newark, New Jersey.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Akashic Books, Ltd.
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781936070725
• Artikelnr.: 38000736

Autorenporträt

AMIRI BARAKA/LEROI JONES (19342014) was the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He was named poet laureate of New Jersey by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, from 20022004. His short story collection Tales of the Out & the Gone (Akashic Books) was a New York Times Editors' Choice and won a 2008 PEN/Beyond Margins Award. He is also the author of Home: Social Essays, Black Music, The System of Dante's Hell, and Tales, among other works.