Great Jazz Books

I'm apparently the only reader on earth who finds his work pointless and annoying

I posted that you know :-)

Wanted to like his Lawrence book, can't remember if I succeeded or not

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well i meant outside our enlightened circle!

I want to read more about the following: John Coltrane, Tarkovsky and Lawrence.

Just not by him. xp = ah!

including of course noted jazz db and one man graham parker tribute band james redd

mystified by dyer's ratio of good reviews to wooly prose but whatever. have long considered an ILB diatribe in his honor but this will do.

Dyer's book reads as if it was written by someone who buys jazz records bcs the covers look cool. I thoroughly enjoyed Richard Williams' The Blue Moment, which uses Kind Of Blue as a starting point to explore Riley, Reich, VU, Eno, The Necks etc etc.

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lol. Saw Steve Goulding perform last week, did not see him last night, discussed his future whereabouts including another Rumour reunion show a few minutes ago.

Yes, the Williams book is lovely. His blog, The Blue Moment, is always worth a look too: review of gigs and records, plus the odd retrospective piece.

Had a skim through Duncan Heinings Trad Dads, Dirty Boppers and Free Fusioneers: British Jazz 1960-75 in the uni library the other day. A little dry and academic in style, but it's well put together and his research is excellent.

Has anyone read Ian Carr's Music Outside, which covers a similar topic/period? It's cited a lot.

RIP Nat Hentoff

https://ehsankhoshbakht.blogspot.com/2009/07/nat-hentoffs-liner-notes-part-iii.html

Former Voice blogger Tom Breihan is now tweeting about how Hentoff was the only one he ever saw stand up to New Times-era Voice honcho Lacey in person---at a really bad meeting, with Lacey having a shitfit all over several VV veterans.

I asked him just now who else was there for the treatment:
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@0wlred I mean: Tom Robbins, Greg Tate, Christgau, Lynn Yaeger, Chuck Eddy, Joy Press, Musto, forget who all else. It was a hell of a room.
10:44 PM - 7 Jan 2017

Ilx's tylerw tweeted this pic of two Hentoff books I still need to get:
if they don't show up, they're Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: The Story of Jazz As Told By The Men Who Made It(co-edited with Nat Shapiro) and Jazz Is.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C1nVEX8UQAAhPb6.jpg:large

RIP. Actually this revive would be about the Bob Porter book Phil posted about on the Rolling Jaxx thread.

Lol at typo.

60-61, on Candid, 4 CDs (if doesn't show, it's Cecil Taylor, The Nat Hentoff Sessions, with Shepp etc.)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C2Bx-vSUoAQY5l-.jpg

I think that iteration of those recordings (it used to be a Mosaic set; the version in the photo is on the Solar label out of Spain, the same folks who did that amazing Sonny Rollins/Don Cherry 6CD live set last year) is out of print already - I see it going for exorbitant third-party prices now when it was originally under $25.

Is there a salty, anecdote-heavy history of jazz from 1920s to 50s that isn't too scary for a non-muso?

Miles Davis' autobio