Leroi Jones: 2 books

"Jones has learned-and this has been very rare in jazz criticism-to write about music as an artist."-Nat Hentoff ks Black Music is a book about the brilliant young jazz musicians of the early 1960s: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Archie...

Essays of the 1960s by a prominent African American voice who “demands rights—not conditional favors” (The New York Times Book Review).   Amiri Baraka, also known as LeRoi Jones, was known not only as a poet, playwright, and founder of the Black Arts movement, but also as one of the most provocative...