If you don't, let me know. I have his book on singers, and would be glad to
scan and send you something.
And RIP to that great jazz writer, who died a couple of weeks ago.
Three other wonderful books on jazz. But Beautiful, by Geoff Dyer. Dyer
started out to write a series of critical biographies, and they all somehow
turned into lyrical improvisations. And the two best jazz novels, The Horn
by John Clellon Holmes and The Bear Comes Home, by Rafi Zabor.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Duemer" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: Wikipedia
> Doug, thanks for reminding me of those. I think I have a couple in an
> anthology that I might be able to copy for my students.
>
> jd
>
> On 2/23/07, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> The other writing where I've felt that it truly caught something of
>> what it would have meant to be there hearing it, was in the late
>> Whitney Balliett's jazz columns (mostly in The New Yorker).
>>
>> Great stuff.
>>
>> Doug
>> On 22-Feb-07, at 1:24 PM, Joseph Duemer wrote:
>>
>> > I had one student, who is a
>> > musician, say he had never heared / seen the actual playing of music
>> > described more truly than in the last few pages of the story.
>> Douglas Barbour
>> 11655 - 72 Avenue NW
>> Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
>> (780) 436 3320
>> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>>
>> Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
>> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
>>
>>
>> Some speak of a return to nature --
>> I wonder where they could have been?
>>
>> Frederick Sommer
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Joseph Duemer
> Professor of Humanities
> Clarkson University
> [sharpsand.net]
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