Black Music
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29th October 2026
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Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781399638494
‘In Black Music, Baraka wrote with ecstasy – highly informed and intricate – about ecstatically complex music’ NEW YORKER
LeRoi Jones, later known as Amiri Baraka, was one of the most pioneering and influential jazz critics of the 1960s. The essays collected here show him articulating in real time the astonishing transformations taking place in the clubs and coffee houses of New York City during jazz music’s most febrile creative era.
An essential read for any follower of the genre, Black Music offers unmissable contemporary insight into the most brilliant jazz musicians of the day: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles David, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Sun Ra and more.
LeRoi Jones, later known as Amiri Baraka, was one of the most pioneering and influential jazz critics of the 1960s. The essays collected here show him articulating in real time the astonishing transformations taking place in the clubs and coffee houses of New York City during jazz music’s most febrile creative era.
An essential read for any follower of the genre, Black Music offers unmissable contemporary insight into the most brilliant jazz musicians of the day: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles David, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Sun Ra and more.
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Baraka wrote with ecstasy - highly informed and intricate - about ecstatically complex music . . . he wrote with wide-ranging erudition, tracing influences within the history of jazz and comparing them with the lineages of other art forms . . . He was a bardic theorist who gave a musical language to music, artistic language to the experience of art
