Black Music - AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series

The long-awaited reissue of the sequel to Amiri Baraka's seminal work, Blues People."Baraka writes with the passion and lyricism that can only come from a jazz critic who is uncompromisingly invested in the social and aesthetic dimensions of the music."--WBGO (Newark Public Radio)"Jones has learned--and this has been very rare in jazz criticism--to write about music as an artist."--Nat HentoffBlack 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.

ISBN:	9781636140858
Publisher:	Akashic Books
Imprint:	Akashic Books
Published date:	10 May 2022
Language:	English
Number of pages:	216
Weight:	376g
Height:	216mm
Width:	140mm
Spine width:	18mm

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