Stanley Crouch

Stanley Crouch's culture pieces have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, Vogue, Downbeat, The New Yorker, and more. He has served as artistic consultant for jazz programming at Lincoln Center since 1987, and is a founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center. In June 2006 his first major collection of jazz criticism, Considering Genius: Jazz Writings, was published. He is presently completing a book about the Barack Obama presidential campaign.

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Journalist and artistic consultant for jazz programming at Lincoln Center and author of Considering Genius: Jazz Writings

I recommend Dan Morgenstern's Living With Jazz, which is one of the very finest collections musical literature produced by any writer. Morgenstern is a whiz kid panting over the wonder of darkies. He actually likes jazz musicians as human beings and can see beyond their racial and class specifics to the universal qualities that made them great in their art or great off the bandstand under the pressure of life. This is one of the truly great books on American art and one of the most comprehensive readings of what Ornette Coleman calls "the human reason" behind aesthetic creation. You won't die if you miss reading this, you will simply be less conscious of life itself.

12:01 pm, Jan 15, 2009

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