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Ask Me Now: Conversations on Jazz and Literature
Ask Me Now explores the relationship between the language of music and the music of language with 20 conversations on jazz and literature. Writer, editor, and saxophonist Sascha Feinstein gathers a variety of artists, poets, musicians, fiction writers, essayists, playwrights, and record producers for discussions on the elusive but engaging relationships between jazz and literature.
Featured artists include central figures of the Black Arts Movement such as Amiri Baraka, Jayne Cortez, Haki R. Madhubuti, and Sonia Sanchez as well as distinguished music critics Gary Giddins, Dan Morgenstern, and Eugene B. Redmond. 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 Hayden Carruth, Cornelius Eady, David Jauss, William Matthews, Lee Meitzen Grue, John Sinclair, and Al Young all contribute their thoughts to the book.
Featured artists include central figures of the Black Arts Movement such as Amiri Baraka, Jayne Cortez, Haki R. Madhubuti, and Sonia Sanchez as well as distinguished music critics Gary Giddins, Dan Morgenstern, and Eugene B. Redmond. 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 Hayden Carruth, Cornelius Eady, David Jauss, William Matthews, Lee Meitzen Grue, John Sinclair, and Al Young all contribute their thoughts to the book.
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472 pages, Paperback
First published August 30, 2007
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January 23, 2019
Found this on a shelf at my girlfriend’s house and was almost instinctively drawn to it. I’m so glad I picked it up.
Feinstein does a tremendous job of piecing together interesting chapters from interviews with some incredible people. I loved the openness with which almost all the interviewees spoke, and I especially loved the chapters with Amiri Baraka, Cornelius Eady, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Sonia Sanchez.
Through this book I got little glimpses into the lives and personalities of jazz greats like Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and so on, all shown through the eyes of equally great writers and poets. This book inspires me to dive deeper into jazz history and the history of jazz poetry. What an incredible art.
Feinstein does a tremendous job of piecing together interesting chapters from interviews with some incredible people. I loved the openness with which almost all the interviewees spoke, and I especially loved the chapters with Amiri Baraka, Cornelius Eady, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Sonia Sanchez.
Through this book I got little glimpses into the lives and personalities of jazz greats like Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and so on, all shown through the eyes of equally great writers and poets. This book inspires me to dive deeper into jazz history and the history of jazz poetry. What an incredible art.
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