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Considering Genius:

Writings on Jazz
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Basic Civitas Books, 2007 - Music - 359 pages
Stanley Crouch-MacArthur “Genius” Award recipient, co-founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center, National Book Award nominee, and perennial bull in the china shop of black intelligentsia-has been writing about jazz and jazz artists for more than thirty years. His reputation for controversy is exceeded only by a universal respect for his intellect and passion. As Gary Giddons notes: “Stanley may be the only jazz writer out there with the kind of rhinoceros hide necessary to provoke and outrage and then withstand the fulminations that come back.” In Considering Genius, Crouch collects some of his best loved, most influential, and most controversial pieces (published in Jazz Times, The New Yorker, the Village Voice, and elsewhere), together with two new essays. The pieces range from the introspective “Jazz Criticism and Its Effect on the Art Form” to a rollicking debate with Amiri Baraka, to vivid, intimate portraits of the legendary performers Crouch has known.

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User Review  - Dave - Goodreads

If nothing else, Crouch is a great writer. His style and craft are unmatched in the world of music criticism. He's a strong enough writer that when I disagree with him (his criticism of Dave Douglas ... Read full review

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User Review  - Richard Wagamese - Goodreads

The birth of jazz was the birth of America. In the field hollers of Mississippi the call and resposne became the shout of the blues and ultimately the blast of Buddy Bolden's trumpet. Jazz is the only ... Read full review

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About the author (2007)

Stanley Crouch is a columnist, novelist, essayist, and television commentator. He has served since 1987 as an artistic consultant at Lincoln Center and is a co-founder of the department known as Jazz at Lincoln Center. He is the author of Notes of a Hanging Judge and The Artificial White Man, among other titles. He lives in New York City.

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TitleConsidering Genius: Writings on Jazz
AuthorStanley Crouch
Editionreprint
PublisherBasic Civitas Books, 2007
ISBN0465015123, 9780465015122
Length359 pages
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Music / Genres & Styles / Jazz
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