Literacy

There are some upcoming releases in the jazz book world that I thought might interest some Soundslope readers. All of these are not yet on the shelves so the links are to Amazon for informational purposes - feel free to support your local book stores and order through them instead.

A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music by George E. Lewis

Official release date is November 15th, but it's available for pre-order. Sure to be a page turner, 672 pages of AACM history, by far the most thorough and in depth piece of literature on the organization to date from its resident historian and scholar George Lewis. I'm looking forward to it.

Miles Davis: Miles Smiles, and the Invention of Post Bop by Jeremy Yudkin

This release examines Miles' music of the mid-1960s and the evolution of the "post-bop" style.

Ask Me Now: Conversations on Jazz and Literature edited by Sascha Feinstein

Interviews with Amiri Baraka, Jayne Cortez, Haki R. Madhubuti, Sonia Sanchez, Gary Giddins, Dan Morgenstern, Yusef Komunyakaa, Fred Hersch, Hayden Carruth, John Sinclair and others, focusing on the relationship between jazz and literature.

Jazzwomen: Conversations with Twenty-One Musicians by Wayne Enstice and Janis Stockhouse

A much needed anthology of interviews with the women of jazz, including talks with Jane Ira Bloom, Terri Lynne Carrington, Regina Carter, Marilyn Crispell, and Shirley Horn, amongst others.