Jones has learnedmdash;and this has been very rare in jazz criticismmdash;to write about music as an artist.mdash;Nat Hentoff ksBlack 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 1959ndash;1967. Also includes Amiri Barakas 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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