Writing Jazz

Conversations with Critics and Biographers

By: Sascha Feinstein

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Paperback | 1 March 2025

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Fourteen interviews with distinguished jazz writers that explore the exciting challenges of writing about jazz.

Writing Jazz presents interviews with fourteen distinguished jazz scholars: Whitney Balliett, Bob Blumenthal, Stanley Crouch, Linda Dahl, Maxine Gordon, Farah Jasmine Griffin, John Edward Hasse, Willard Jenkins, Hettie Jones, Robin D. G. Kelley, Laurie Pepper, Tom Piazza, Ricky Riccardi, and A. B. Spellman. This literary jam session explores the many challenges and thrills of writing about jazz in various prose forms, including liner notes, memoirs, biographies, and critical guides. The distinguished writers interviewed in this collection obviously share a passion for jazz, and each has produced a hefty amount of literature that illuminates both the music and its practitioners. A well-known writer on jazz, Sascha Feinstein has explored the relationship of jazz and literature throughout his career, making Writing Jazz an essential contribution to the field of jazz-related literature.

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"If I had to choose the one book that best captures what Whitney Balliett called 'the secret emotional center in jazz,' it would be Writing Jazz. Sascha Feinstein's conversations with a dazzling array of writers uncovers a lot about jazz's 'extraordinary

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