Ask Me Now
Conversations on Jazz and Literature
- Editor: Feinstein, Sascha
The interviewees cover a wide range from jazz-aware poets to literature-aware jazzers...many of the litterateurs not only have genuine enthusiasm for the music but seem to know an awful lot about... — More…
Book
$31.00Contents
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Better You Say It First / Amiri Baraka
- 2. Those Upward Leaps / Hayden Carruth
- 3. Returning to Go Someplace Else / Jayne Cortez
- 4. Just a Matter of Time / Bill Crow
- 5. Did Your Mama Hear Those Poems? / Cornelius Eady
- 6. Legwork / Gary Giddins
- 7. The House as Open Ground / Lee Meitzen Grue
- 8. Respiration and Inspiration / Fred Hersch
- 9. Stolen Moments / David Jauss
- 10. Survival Masks / Yusef Komunyakaa
- 11. Detroit Jazz in the Late Forties and Early Fifties / Philip Levine
- 12. Where the Call Needs to Be Heard / Haki R. Madhubuti
- 13. Mingus at the Showplace / William Matthews
- 14. Consideration / Dan Morgenstern
- 15. The Greatest Equalizer in the World / Hank O'Neal
- 16. Levels of the Blues / Eugene B. Redmond
- 17. Cante Jondo / Sonia Sanchez
- 18. Ask Me Now / John Sinclair
- 19. Makes Me Feel Like I Got Some Money / Al Young
- 20. Something to Believe In / Paul Zimmer
- Acknowledgments
- Index
