附註:The Guy Downstairs -- A Chaconnade for Everyone Named Rebecca -- Freedom and Discipline -- Academicism -- Who Cares, Long as It's B-Flat -- Influences: The Formal Idea of Jazz -- Joe Turner -- Song about Earl Hines -- With Respect to the Infuriating Pervasiveness of Optimism -- A Possibly Momentary Declaration In Favor of William Butler Yeats and Charles Ellsworth Russell -- Paragraph -- Got Those Forever Inadequate Blues -- The Intentional Alligator -- Personality of Genius -- Tom McGrath Is Harvesting the Snow -- Authenticity in the Age of Massive, Multiplying Error -- Michigan Water: A Few Riffs before Dawn -- Three Paragraphs -- The Defeated Generation -- The Cowshed Blues -- The Main Thing about Improvisation -- The Blues Scale -- Ben Webster -- The Time of Falling Apart -- The Blues as Poetry -- In That Session -- James Wright's Collected Prose -- Mystery and Expressiveness.
摘要:This collection of essays and poems about the influence of jazz on writing and culture in this country, an expanded edition of the 1986 publication, is a rewarding volume for all those entranced by jazz. Carruth brings his considerable poetic and literary sensibilities to bear on a topic very near to his heart: "Those who are devoted primarily to jazz, to poetry, to all the arts, are also those who contribute more intelligently than others to our practical and moral, political and social, advancement."
