Skip to content
Home/ Ask Me Now: Conversations on Jazz and Literature
Ask Me Now: Conversations on Jazz and Literature

Ask Me Now: Conversations on Jazz and Literature

by Ask Me Now: Conversations on Jazz and Literature
No customer reviews yet ISBN 9780253218766

Ask Me Now explores the relationship between the language of music and the music of language with 20 conversations on jazz and literature. Writer, editor, and saxophonist Sascha Feinstein gathers a variety of artists, poets, musicians, fiction writers, essayists, playwrights, and record producers for discussions on the elusive but engaging relationships between jazz and literature.

Featured artists include central figures of the Black Arts Movement such as Amiri Baraka, Jayne Cortez, Haki R. Madhubuti, and Sonia Sanchez as well as distinguished music critics Gary Giddins, Dan Morgenstern, and Eugene B. Redmond. Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry Yusef Komunyakaa and Philip Levine, outstanding jazz musicians Bill Crow and Fred Hersch, and several writers who cross literary genres: Hayden Carruth, Cornelius Eady, David Jauss, William Matthews, Lee Meitzen Grue, John Sinclair, and Al Young all contribute their thoughts to the book.

About the author

Product details

Pub dateSep 1, 2007
ISBN-100253218764
ISBN-139780253218766
LanguageEnglish
Last updated 2026-07-20 23:14
$30.33
In stock — ships in 24 hours with free tracking
Delivery by Monday, September 14, 2026
Qty
Sign in to Add to Saved list
Free delivery on orders over $35.
15-day returns. Any reason.
Secure checkout. We never store card details.

Readers who bought this also bought

More from Genres & Styles - Jazz
See all
Sittin' in: Jazz Clubs of the 1940s and 1950s
Gold, Jeff
$31.49
Jazz W. Free Audio CD [With CD]
Tanner, Paul
$60.08
OnMusic Jazz Student Access Card: A Connected Text
OnMusic Jazz extends the highly successful OnMusic franchise into the world of Armstrong, Goodman, Davis, and Marsalis. Based on the best-selling text by Paul O.W. Tanner, David W. Megill, and Maurice Gerow, OnMusic Jazz provides an integrated methodology for teaching and learning jazz encompassing text, music, listening guides, assessment and administrative tools. The materials will include access to over 250 pieces of music providing the most extensive collection of music for the course. Fully customizable, instructors can rearrange the material or even add their own material. Students enjoy the interactive multimedia, rich music selections, fun exercises and the simple to use, built-in Course Management System. <BR> For more information about OnMusic Jazz visit http: //www.connect4education.com.
$152.07
Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1,001 Best Albums
Morton, Brian
$25.95
Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album
Kahn, Ashley
$20.26
Rethinking Miles Davis
What hasn't been said about Miles Davis? <p/>Much has been written about the jazz trumpeter and band leader, yet studies of Davis are often restricted to the groundbreaking acoustic jazz he produced between the 1940s and 50s. While more recent studies revisit his 1960s and 1970s work, Davis' later engagements with music, fashion, and the mainstream media are ripe for reassessment. <em>Rethinking Miles Davis</em> confronts familiar narratives about Davis and his music through a range of perspectives: from the ways Davis pushed jazz into new genre forms, re-envisioned jazz standards, and collaborated musically, to his role in the record companies that released his music, the persona he developed in video, film, and fashion, and how his masculinity manifested both professionally and personally. The collection includes a photo-essay of international jazz musicians' take on Davis' albums in which each musician explains the personal significance of a favourite recording. Ultimately, <em>Rethinking Miles Davis</em> challenges the orthodoxy of jazz criticism, repositioning Miles Davis within a larger framework of modernism and mass culture.
$38.70