{"product_id":"ask-me-now-conversations-on-jazz-and-literature-paperback-softback-9780253218766","title":"Ask Me Now; Conversations on Jazz and Literature (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253218766","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAsk Me Now\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eConversations on Jazz and Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSascha Feinstein (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253218766\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 18 September 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e472 pages, 20 b\u0026amp;w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 2.8 cm, 0.671 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ask Me Now is an excellent and engaging collection. I would recommend this book to anyone who wanted to learn more about jazz, about writing, and about the connections between writing and music. Volume 32, Issue 5, 2009\"—\u003ci\u003ePopular Music and Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The interviewees cover a wide range from jazz-aware poets to literature-aware jazzers...many of the litterateurs not only have genuine enthusiasm for the music but seem to know an awful lot about it...Feinstein's agenda is all about proving that poets have a right to draw on jazz for inspiration.August 2008\"—Brian Priestley, \u003ci\u003eJazzwise\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"No matter how much one might know about jazz and the ways contemporary writers make use of the music, this book is a find and a pleasure to read.\"—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \". . . convey[s] the power of language within a framework of artistic expression that is both scholarly relevant and readily accessible to readers. . . .\"—\u003ci\u003eMetro Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"In looking at the relationship between jazz and literature, these interviews take up, among other things, the nature of jazz and its frequent neglect in the US. . . . [T]he book offers many original revelations from creative individuals who have had long experience in the field—musicians, critics, scholars, and record producers—and provides an abundance of information about poets inspired by specific musical pieces and musicians being inspired by works of poetry. The conversations with jazz critic Gary Giddins and his mentor Dan Morgenstern alone make this book worthwhile . . . Recommended.\"—\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"In Ask Me Now: Conversations on Jazz \u0026amp; Literature. . . , saxophonist and English professor Sascha Feinstein gathers a stunning variety of musicians, poets, and novelists to discuss the engaging interactions between jazz and literature.\"—\u003ci\u003eForeWord\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"This is the most interesting, in—depth, valuable, and various account of the connection between jazz and literature ever put into print.\"—Ed Pavlic, author of Labors Lost Left Unfinished\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAsk Me Now\u003c\/i\u003e explores the relationship between the language of music and the music of language with 20 conversations on jazz and literature. Writer, editor, and saxophonist Sascha Feinstein gathers a variety of artists, poets, musicians, fiction writers, essayists, playwrights, and record producers for discussions on the elusive but engaging relationships between jazz and literature.\u003cbr\u003e Featured artists include central figures of the Black Arts Movement such as Amiri Baraka, Jayne Cortez, Haki R. Madhubuti, and Sonia Sanchez as well as distinguished music critics Gary Giddins, Dan Morgenstern, and Eugene B. Redmond. Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry Yusef Komunyakaa and Philip Levine, outstanding jazz musicians Bill Crow and Fred Hersch, and several writers who cross literary genres: Hayden Carruth, Cornelius Eady, David Jauss, William Matthews, Lee Meitzen Grue, John Sinclair, and Al Young all contribute their thoughts to the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Better You Say It First \/ Amiri Baraka\u003cbr\u003e 2. Those Upward Leaps \/ Hayden Carruth\u003cbr\u003e 3. Returning to Go Someplace Else \/ Jayne Cortez\u003cbr\u003e 4. Just a Matter of Time \/ Bill Crow\u003cbr\u003e 5. Did Your Mama Hear Those Poems? \/ Cornelius Eady\u003cbr\u003e 6. Legwork \/ Gary Giddins\u003cbr\u003e 7. The House as Open Ground \/ Lee Meitzen Grue\u003cbr\u003e 8. Respiration and Inspiration \/ Fred Hersch\u003cbr\u003e 9. Stolen Moments \/ David Jauss\u003cbr\u003e 10. Survival Masks \/ Yusef Komunyakaa\u003cbr\u003e 11. Detroit Jazz in the Late Forties and Early Fifties \/ Philip Levine\u003cbr\u003e 12. Where the Call Needs to Be Heard \/ Haki R. Madhubuti\u003cbr\u003e 13. Mingus at the Showplace \/ William Matthews\u003cbr\u003e 14. Consideration \/ Dan Morgenstern\u003cbr\u003e 15. The Greatest Equalizer in the World \/ Hank O'Neal\u003cbr\u003e 16. Levels of the Blues \/ Eugene B. Redmond\u003cbr\u003e 17. Cante Jondo \/ Sonia Sanchez\u003cbr\u003e 18. Ask Me Now \/ John Sinclair\u003cbr\u003e 19. Makes Me Feel Like I Got Some Money \/ Al Young\u003cbr\u003e 20. Something to Believe In \/ Paul Zimmer\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52525858488600,"sku":"9780253218766","price":19.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/ask-me-now-conversations-on-jazz-and-literature-paperback-softback-9780253218766","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}