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Jive-Colored Glasses: a jazz memoir
Jive-Colored Glasses looks at my life through the lenses of jazz music and personal memory. It’s a story of how I came to jazz from a privileged background, became a jazz critic, and how jazz changed my life. The themes are work, women, money and music—and how I met (or ducked) the challenges of each. The book presents an informed look into jazz history and culture, particularly of the period 1950-1980. Music referenced in the text is hyperlinked to YouTube and other sources so the reader can hear it immediately (ebook version).
174 pages, Paperback
First published July 8, 2015
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John F. Goodman
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Drawing on his political blog from those pivotal years, author John F. Goodman captured the first-term culture as it happened—using satire and humor, monologues and dialogues, and sharp media analysis to document the disintegration of American political institutions in real time. These posts are the soil in which the present disorder took root.
Inside, you'll find:
• A cast of characters straight out of a lunatic asylum
• Feckless Democrats who helped enable the very fiascos they claimed to oppose
• A clear-eyed look at how Trump's brand of corruption actually operates
• How the guardrails were removed—and why so few saw it coming.
Trump has never changed character. His lunacy has only advanced. Trumpworld Begins records in vivid snapshots how we got from there to here—and why, if only we'd been paying closer attention, the signs were impossible to miss.
This is not typical political nonfiction or standard political commentary. It is a living document—part history, part provocation, part cultural autopsy—and a stark reminder of how it all began.
Trumpworld Begins takes you back to 2016–2018—the years that primed everything that followed. Donald Trump's first term shattered the gentility of the Obama era and launched an era of backstabbing, ideological warfare, and a constant desperate scramble for the President's ear. The chaos unfolding today didn't appear out of nowhere. This is where it grew.
Drawing on his political blog from those pivotal years, author John F. Goodman captured the first-term culture as it happened—using satire and humor, monologues and dialogues, and sharp media analysis to document the disintegration of American political institutions in real time. These posts are the soil in which the present disorder took root.
Inside, you'll find:
• A cast of characters straight out of a lunatic asylum
• Feckless Democrats who helped enable the very fiascos they claimed to oppose
• A clear-eyed look at how Trump's brand of corruption actually operates
• How the guardrails were removed—and why so few saw it coming.
Trump has never changed character. His lunacy has only advanced. Trumpworld Begins records in vivid snapshots how we got from there to here—and why, if only we'd been paying closer attention, the signs were impossible to miss.
This is not typical political nonfiction or standard political commentary. It is a living document—part history, part provocation, part cultural autopsy—and a stark reminder of how it all began.
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July 9, 2015
"Goodman recounts his lifelong love affair with music--and especially jazz--by tales of his parents' house parties with Louis Armstrong leading the band; haunting the great jazz clubs of Chicago and New York to hear Miles, Monk and Diz; and developing friendships with the likes of Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Charles Mingus. If Jive-Colored Glasses were a painting, it might be called 'Real Life with Music.' And what a soundtrack it has!"
--Jeffrey Siegel
Straight No Chaser, a jazz show
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"A highly moving memoir, John Goodman's Jive-Colored Glasses is as relateable as it is sweetly nostalgic. I too found jazz through my father, and haven't looked back since. Goodman's memoir reminds us that life truly is about the journey, and not the destination. Especially when it comes to music. Thank you Mr. Goodman!"
--Tim Broun
editor, writer, blogger, podcaster
Stupefaction blog
--Jeffrey Siegel
Straight No Chaser, a jazz show
straightnochaserjazz.libsyn.com/
"A highly moving memoir, John Goodman's Jive-Colored Glasses is as relateable as it is sweetly nostalgic. I too found jazz through my father, and haven't looked back since. Goodman's memoir reminds us that life truly is about the journey, and not the destination. Especially when it comes to music. Thank you Mr. Goodman!"
--Tim Broun
editor, writer, blogger, podcaster
Stupefaction blog
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