Writing Jazz

<p><b>Fourteen interviews with distinguished jazz writers that explore the exciting challenges of writing about jazz.</b></p><p><i>Writing Jazz</i> presents interviews with fourteen distinguished jazz scholars: Whitney Balliett Bob Blumenthal Stanley Crouch Linda Dahl Maxine Gordon Farah Jasmine Griffin John Edward Hasse Willard Jenkins Hettie Jones Robin D. G. Kelley Laurie Pepper Tom Piazza Ricky Riccardi and A. B. Spellman. This literary jam session explores the many challenges and thrills of writing about jazz in various prose forms including liner notes memoirs biographies and critical guides. The distinguished writers interviewed in this collection obviously share a passion for jazz and each has produced a hefty amount of literature that illuminates both the music and its practitioners. A well-known writer on jazz Sascha Feinstein has explored the relationship of jazz and literature throughout his career making <i>Writing Jazz</i> an essential contribution to the field of jazz-related literature.</p>