Ebook: Black Music

In 2007, Akashic Books ushered Amiri Baraka back into the forefront of America's literary consciousness with the short story collection Tales of the Out & the Gone. Now, this reissue of Black Music'long out of print'features a highly provocative and profoundly insightful collection of essays on jazz criticism, the creative process, and the development of a new way forward for black artists. 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. This rich and vital collection is comprised of essays, reviews, interviews, liner notes, musical analyses, and personal impressions from 1959-1967.;Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Jazz and the White Critic; Minton's; The Dark Lady of the Sonnets; Recent Monk; Three Ways to Play the Saxophone; A Day With Roy Haynes; Sonny Rollins (Our Man in Jazz); A Jazz Great: John Coltrane; Coltrane Live at Birdland; The Jazz Avant-Garde; Introducing Wayne Shorter; Introducing Dennis Charles; New York Loft and Coffee Shop Jazz; Introducing Bobby Bradford; Present Perfect (Cecil Taylor); Cecil Taylor (The World of Cecil Taylor); Apple Cores #1; Apple Cores #2; Apple Cores #3; Apple Cores #4.