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Informationen zum Autor edited by Sascha Feinstein Klappentext Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry Yusef Komunyakaa and Philip Levine, outstanding jazz musicians Bill Crow and Fred Hersch, and several writers who cross literary genres: Hayden Carruth, Cornelius Eady, David Jauss, William Matthews, Lee Meitzen Grue, John Sinclair, and Al Young all contribute their thoughts to the book. Zusammenfassung Conversations on jazz and literature with some of America's most important artists and writers Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Introduction 1. Better You Say It First / Amiri Baraka 2. Those Upward Leaps / Hayden Carruth 3. Returning to Go Someplace Else / Jayne Cortez 4. Just a Matter of Time / Bill Crow 5. Did Your Mama Hear Those Poems? / Cornelius Eady 6. Legwork / Gary Giddins 7. The House as Open Ground / Lee Meitzen Grue 8. Respiration and Inspiration / Fred Hersch 9. Stolen Moments / David Jauss 10. Survival Masks / Yusef Komunyakaa 11. Detroit Jazz in the Late Forties and Early Fifties / Philip Levine 12. Where the Call Needs to Be Heard / Haki R. Madhubuti 13. Mingus at the Showplace / William Matthews 14. Consideration / Dan Morgenstern 15. The Greatest Equalizer in the World / Hank O'Neal 16. Levels of the Blues / Eugene B. Redmond 17. Cante Jondo / Sonia Sanchez 18. Ask Me Now / John Sinclair 19. Makes Me Feel Like I Got Some Money / Al Young 20. Something to Believe In / Paul Zimmer Acknowledgments Index
