Considering Genius

Writings on Jazz

By: Stanley Crouch

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Paperback | 1 April 2007 | Edition Number 1

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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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"Stanley Crouch is an intriguing case. He is often described as a maverick and a conservative, but as this excellent collection of essays on jazz illustrates, there's more to him than that." The Guardian "Crouch writes passionately and often provocatively, to the extent that even when you think he's showing off, you end up feeling he has a good point." Jazz Times"

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Prologue: Jazz Me Blues	p. 1
The Makers
Miles Davis in the Fever of Spring, 1961 1998	p. 40
Bird Land: Charlie Parker, Clint Eastwood, and America 1989	p. 66
Papa Dip: Crescent City Conquistador and Sacrificial Hero Louis Armstrong 1985	p. 77
Not So Dizzy 1989	p. 83
At the Five Spot Thelonious Monk 1977	p. 86
Ahmad Jamal 1989	p. 95
Himself When He Was Real: The Art of Charles Mingus 1994	p. 100
Blues for the Space Age Ornette Coleman 2002	p. 108
Titan of the Blues John Coltrane 1987	p. 111
Andrew Hill's Alternative Avant-Garde 1984	p. 116
Rooster Ben: King of Romance Ben Webster 1986	p. 120
The Last of the Great Bandleaders Sun Ra 1982	p. 125
Don't Ask the Critics: Ask Wallace Roney's Peers 2000	p. 129
Duke Ellington: Transcontinental Swing 1998	p. 133
Thoughts
Martin's Tempo 1992	p. 154
The Late, Late Blues: Jazz Modernism 2004	p. 157
Blues to Be Constitutional 1995	p. 166
Body and Soul, 1983	p. 180
Battle Royal
JazzTimes Columns: Introduction	p. 206
Jazz Tradition Is Not Innovation January 2002	p. 209
The Negro Aesthetic of Jazz October 2002	p. 211
Coltrane Derailed September 2002	p. 213
Jazz Criticism and Its Effect on the Art Form September 1986	p. 216
Jazz's Own Sweet Time November 2002	p. 230
Putting the White Man in Charge April 2003	p. 232
Piano Prodigy May 2003	p. 235
Detours Ahead
On the Corner: The Sellout of Miles Davis 1986	p. 240
The Way It Was, The Way It Is
Come Sunday Duke Ellington, Mahalia Jackson 2004	p. 258
The Presence Is Always the Point 2000	p. 271
Live at the Village Vanguard Wynton Marsalis 1999	p. 285
Epilogue	p. 297
Index	p. 341
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