sphinxsix Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 I don't read about music that much nowadays, don't know all the books from this list but judging by the ones I've read and by reviews, this is a really good selection from the Guardian. 10 of the best music biographies Link to comment
sphinxsix Posted July 22, 2020 Author Share Posted July 22, 2020 1 hour ago, ronfint said: I've been reading “Black Music” by Leroi Jones (later known as Amiri Baraka). It is a book of essays/ reviews of jazz and jazz musicians in NYC in the 1960s. Jones' critical thinking is spot on if you think of jazz as an art form and not as soft background music. This book is especially meaningful to me since it covers a period when I was a college student in NYC and when Leroi Jones was a kind of hero to myself and many of my classmates. One nice thing about this book is that it has caused me to go back and listen to a lot of older recordings in my collection of people I don't listen to enough — Wayne Shorter, Bobby Bradford, the New York Art Quartet, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, Denis Charles ... Thanks for your suggestion. I just love to read about jazz in those times. Will check it out. Link to comment
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