Research Catalog

Title

Moment's notice : jazz in poetry & prose / edited by Art Lange & Nathaniel Mackey.

Publication

Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lange, Art, 1952-
• Mackey, Nathaniel, 1947-

Description

373 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subjects

• Literature
• Literary collections
• Jazz > Literary collections
• American literature > 20th century
• 1900-1999
• Jazz in literature
• African American jazz musicians > 20th century > Biography

Genre/Form

• Literature.
• Literary collections.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Mu / Melvin Tolson -- Projection -- Flatted Fifths -- Jam Session -- Be-Bop Boys -- Song for Billie Holiday / Langston Hughes -- Soledad / Robert Hayden -- Hopscotch -- Louis, Super-Cronopio / Julio Cortazar -- Giuffe's Nightmusic / Thomas McGrath -- He Don't Plant Cotton / J.F. Powers -- Clock / Kamau Brathwaite -- Freedom and Discipline -- Three Paragraphs / Hayden Carruth -- The Subterraneans / Jack Kerouac -- Let's All Hear It for Mildred Bailey! / James Schuyler -- Sonny's Blues / James Baldwin -- Listening to Sonny Rollins at the Five Spot / Paul Blackburn -- Chasing the Bird / Robert Creeley -- Song for Bird and Myself / Jack Spicer -- Streets of Gold / Evan Hunter -- Chorus: Wing / John Clellon Holmes -- The Day Lady Died / Frank O'Hara -- Garden / Cecil Taylor -- For Miles / Gregory Corso -- The Planets -- Full Circle -- Miles / Fielding Dawson -- Battle Report -- Walking Parker Home -- O-JAZZ-O War Memoir: Jazz, Don't Listen To It At Your Own Risk / Bob Kaufman -- The Rare Birds -- In the Tradition -- Now and Then -- Answers in Progress / Amiri Baraka -- String of Pearls / Ted Berrigan -- Will the Circle Be Unbroken? / Henry Dumas -- Foo to the Infinite -- Bud Powell, 1925-1966 / Clayton Eshleman -- Newark / Robert Kelly -- 19 -- The End of an Ethnic Dream / Jay Wright -- Rose Solitude -- Solo Finger Solo -- I See Chano Pozo -- Tapping / Jayne Cortez -- 17:II:82 -- 18:VI:82 / David Meltzer -- Don't Say Goodbye to the Porkpie Hat -- Harlem Gallery: From the Inside / Larry Neal -- A Narrative of the Life and Times of John Coltrane: Played by Himself -- For Bud -- Peace on Earth -- Driving the Big Chrysler across the Country of My Birth / Michael S. Harper -- Finding a Chet Baker Album in the Dimestore / David Hilton -- Filling the Gap -- Blue Gene -- Wintersong -- Blues for Dan Morin / Lawson Fusao Inada -- Poetry Makes Rhythm in Philosophy -- Lake Bud / Ishmael Reed -- Rhymes with Monk -- Of What The Music to Me / Clark Coolidge -- Africa, Music and Show Business / Abdullah Ibraihm -- Body and Soul -- Moody's Mood for Love -- Lester Leaps In -- Topsy: Part 2 -- Dance of the Infidels / Al Young -- The Depression / Doug Lang -- Lennie Tristano, No Wind -- Little Light / Jim Brodey -- Sonny Rollins -- A Coltrane Memorial -- Thelonious Sphere Monk / David Henderson -- Giant Steps / John Taggart -- Coming Through Slaughter / Michael Ondaatje -- Four and More; for Miles Davis -- Snake-Back Solo -- Leaving Los Angeles / Quincy Troupe -- To the Pianist Bill Evans / Bill Zavatsky -- Tampa Red's Contemporary Blues / K. Curtis Lyle -- Wonders -- Historiography / Lorenzo Thomas -- Cousin Mary -- but, ruby my dear / Wanda Coleman -- Capricorn Rising -- "John Coltrane Arrived with an Egyptian Lady" -- Bedouin Hornbook / Nathaniel Mackey -- okra to greens -- rite-ing / Ntozake Shange -- Be-Bop, Re-Bop / Xam Wilson Cartier -- Expandable Language -- C.T.'s variation -- Rogue & Jar: 4/27/77 / Thulani Davis -- Solea / Jessica Hagedorn -- Like Cities, Like Storms -- Love Poem / August Kleinzahler -- The Coming of John / Amus Mor -- Words & Music in America -- The Funky Butt Legacy Song / Kofi Natambu -- Fire Parcel -- The Circle with a Hole in the Middle / Peter Kostakis -- A Fine Line -- Mbizo -- A White Line / Art Lange -- To The Great Hard-Bop Pianists.

Call Number

Sc E 21-820

ISBN

• 1566890012
• 9781566890014

LCCN

93010151

OCLC

27814512

Title

Moment's notice : jazz in poetry & prose / edited by Art Lange & Nathaniel Mackey.

Publisher

Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 1993.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Creator/Contributor Characteristics

African Americans

Americans

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Indexed Term

American literature 20th century

Jazz Literary collections

Added Author

Lange, Art, 1952- editors.

Mackey, Nathaniel, 1947- editors.

Research Call Number

Sc E 21-820

JNE 96-153