Black Music (Akashiclassics: Renegade Reprint Series) - Softcover

"[Jones writes] with an excitement and empathy and terrific knack for the true colloquial phrase, the right feeling." --Kirkus Reviews

"Jones has learnedand this has been very rare in jazz criticismto 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 19591967. Also includes Amiri Baraka's reflections in a 2009 interview with Calvin Reid ofPublishers 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.