"Music in Motion" handcolored drawing
courtesy of Louis
Delsarte
AMIRI BARAKA
Excerpt
from Jazz and the white critic
"SHOWING YOUR ASS"
From G. Ward and K. Burns book
Jazz: A History of America's Music
LOUIS ARMSTRONG
Excerpt from 1936 book
Swing That Music
LEROI JONES
Excerpt from 1963 book
Blues
People: Negro Music in White America
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON
Excerpt from the 1927 book, Chapter VI
The
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
ALLAN LOMAX
Excerpt from his book: Mister Jelly Roll (1950)
Jelly
Roll Morton's Reminiscence
LANGSTON HUGUES
Excerpt from 1934 book
The
Blues I'm Playing
HARRY FRANCIS
What is this thing called jazz?
[article]
Jazzprofessional.com
ERIC PORTER
African
American Musicians Artists, Critics, Activists
[book]
BATT JOHNSON
Insights
and Opinions from the Players
[book]
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