Black Music
The essential collection of jazz writing by the celebrated poet and author of Blues People—reissued with a new introduction by the author. In the 1960s, LeRoi Jones—who would later be known as Amiri Baraka—was a pioneering jazz critic, articulating in real time the incredible transformations...
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"On why jazz isn't cool anymore" ; by Nicholas Payton
On Why Jazz Isn’t Cool Anymore
Jazz died in 1959. There may be cool individuals who say they play Jazz, but ain’t **** cool about Jazz as a whole. Jazz died when cool stopped being hip. Jazz was a limited idea to begin wit…
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