The music : reflections on jazz and blues / Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Amina Baraka.
| Author/creator | Baraka, Amiri |
| Other author | Baraka, Amina. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | New York : William Morrow and Company, ©1987. |
| Description | 332 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Poetry / by Amina Baraka. The things I love ; No name poem ; Birth right ; High society ; Blues ; For Tom White ; For the lady in color ; Hip songs ; For Pharaoh Sanders ; All is one for Monk ; For Abbey Lincoln ; For John Hicks ; For jazz ; For Jerry Butler ; No-mo blues -- Poetry / by Amira Baraka. Obalaji as drummer, Ras as poet ; I love music ; Bang/bang outishly ; The speed ; In walked Bud ; Caution: a disco near you wails death funk ; At Roseland ; The wayfarers ; Choruses ; I felt sad ... ; Early cool ; A snide aside ; Keep right on playin ... ; New music ; The aesthetic ; Portrait ; Stomp (funk world) ; Water music ; Jazz notes ; Abby and Duke ; RhythmBlues ; Shazam Doowah ; The rare birds ; The real construction ; More Trane than art ; Reggae or not! ; Class struggle in music ; In the tradition ; For Sylvia or Amina ; Wailers ; Reflections ; The lady ; Real song is a dangerous number -- Musical. Primitive world: an anti-nuclear jazz musical -- Essays / by Amiri Baraka. Where's the music going and why? ; Greenwich Village and African-American music ; Milestones 1 by Jack Chambers ; Woody Shaw/Woody Three! ; Masters in collaboration ; Cecil McBee/Flying Out ; Craig Harris/Aboriginal Affairs ; Jay Hoggard/Solo album/India Navigation ; Jay Hoggard/Mystic Winds ; To be or not to bop: a biography of Dizzy Gillespie by Al Frazier ; Dear Roger Riggins ; Dennis Moorman/Circles of Destiny ; Gil Scott Heron ; Bob Neloms/Pretty music ; New Music/New Poetry ; Chico Freeman/The Outside Within ; Ricky Ford/Future's Gold ; Jazz writing: survival in the eighties ; Blues, poetry, and the new music ; The phenomenon of Soul in African-American music ; A tribute to Bird ; Afro pop ; Billie ; Miles Davis: "one of the great mother fuckers" ; Class struggle in music ; The great music robbery. |
| Abstract | Contains essays on Miles Davis, Pharaoh Sanders, Woody Shaw, Jay Hoggard, Bob Neloms, Cecil McBee, Craig Harris, Gil Scott Heron, Chico Freeman, Dennis Moorman, and other contemporary musicians as well as reflections on soul, modern trends, and other aspects of the history of jazz and blues. Also included are poems on music and musicians by both Amina and Amiri Baraka and a jazz musical by Amiri. |
| LCCN | 86018164 |
| ISBN | 0688043887 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Music Stacks | ML3556 .B17 1987 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |