Publisher:Bloomington :Indiana University Press,c2009.
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The barrier / Don Asher -- Sonny's blues / James ... Baldwin -- Medley / Toni Cade Bambara -- Norman's date / Amiri Baraka -- The screamers / Amiri Baraka -- Singing Dinah's song / Frank London Brown -- A woman who plays trumpet is deported / Michelle Cliff -- Jazz at twelve / Wanda Coleman -- Bix Beiderbecke / Julio Cortázar -- The pursuer / Julio Cortázar -- Swingtime / Kiki DeLancey -- A coupla scalped Indians / Ralph Ellison -- Common meter / Rudolph Fisher -- Blues for Little Prez / Sam Greenlee -- Tenorman: a novella / David Huddle -- The blues I'm playing / Langston Hughes -- Old ghost revives atavistic memories in a lady of the DAR / Langston Hughes -- Dead jazz guys / Phil Kawana -- Buddy's monologue / Yusef Komunyakaa -- Miss Brown to you / Ellen Jordis Lewis -- Rossonian days / William Henry Lewis --Lush life / John McCluskey, Jr. -- Child's play / Bill Moody -- The shrimp peel gig / James Reed -- The end of Bull Mácha / Josef Škvorecký -- You're too hip, baby / Terry Southern -- The jazz baby / Julian Street -- Round about close to midnight / Boris Vian -- Powerhouse / Eudora Welty -- The silence of Thelonious Monk / John Edgar Wideman -- Jazz wife / Xu Xi -- A really good jazz piano / Richard Yates.Read More