The Music: Reflections on Jazz and Blues
- ISBN-10
- 0688043887
- ISBN-13
- 9780688043889
- Category
- Music / General
- Pages
- 332
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1987
- Publisher
- Morrow
- Authors
- Imamu Amiri Baraka, Amina Baraka
Description
The acclaimed author of Blues People and Black Music returns to the subject of music for the first time in two decades with this collection of essays on the history of jazz and blues, as well as critical comments on today's top performers. Black-and-white photographs.
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