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Francis Davis is one of this nation's savviest and most admired music and cultural critics. In this collection of essays he observes the modern jazz and pop that have reached middle age at the same moment as many of their listeners, including the author. Moving through the scales from Frank Sinatra and Billie Holiday to Ornette Coleman and Sun Ra, he comments on music both old and new, on stage and screen. In addition to taking the pulse of jazz at the millennium, he offers fresh insights on pop icons like Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Burt Bacharach, and Brian Wilson. He also goes beyond character sketch and critical script to weave in fragments of his own life, making this the most personal of his collections. Like Young will resonate both with those who have spent two decades reading Davis and those who are discovering him today.
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Francis Davis is the author of several books, including The History of the Blues and a forthcoming biography of John Coltrane. A contributing editor of The Atlantic Monthly, he also writes regularly about music for the New York Times, among others. He lives in Philadelphia.
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"He's a very impressive critic.... You feel you're reading an honest man." -- -Pauline Kael
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- PublisherDa Capo Press
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0306810565
- ISBN 13 9780306810565
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages352
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