^MORROW PAPERBACK EEDDIITTIIONS $1.95 IBUHES AUTHOR OF BLUES PEOPLE Please Return To: ^t KntVs ^tl^aai ICtbrarg 129 Piennepont St. NY Brooklyn, 7i~4 ISO , ; BLACK MUSIC Also by LeRoi Jones HOME: Social Essays DUTCHMAN and THE SLA\^: Two Plays BLUES PEOPLE: Negro Music in White America BLACK MUSIC J^^Roi yones WILLIAM MORROW & COMPANY, INC. • NEW YORKm "Jazzdivainsdionthoef WJhoihtneMCarhietirc":PricnotpiynrgigChot. 1F9i6r3stbpyublMiashheedr iPnubDliocawtnionBse,ata. Used by permission. ,,.,,. "Minton's": copyright © 1967 by LeRoi^ Jones. First published in t,hi•s "ThevoDlaurmek.Lady of the Sonnets": liner notes, copyri.gh,t ©_ ,1^9,6.2 ,by G^ui.dJe Music,Inc.Usedbypermission. "Recent Monk": copyright 1963 by Maher Publications, a divis.ion of John Maher Printing Co. First published in Down Beat. Used by permission. "Three Ways to Play the Saxophone": copyright 1964 by LeRoi Jones. FirstpublishedinNegro Digest. "A Day with Roy Haynes": copyright 1963 bv Maher Publications, a divi- sion of John Maher Printing Co. First published in Down Beat. Used^ by permission. "SonnvRollins": copyright 1963 byLeRoi Jones. First published in Kt^ul,cb,ur. "A Jazz Great: John Coltrane": copyright © 1963 by Metronome Corpora- "Coltrane Live at Birdland": liner notes, reprinted by permission of ABC Records. "The Jazz Avant-Garde": copyright © 1961 by Metronome Corporation. "Introducing Wayne Shorter": copyright 1959 by Jazz Review, Inc. "Introducing Dennis Charles": copyright © 1967 by LeRoi Jones. First pubhshed inthis volume. "New York Loft and Coffee Shop Jazz": copyright 1963 by Maher Publica- tions, a division of John Maher Printing Co. First published in Down Beat. Used by permission. "Introducing Bobby Bradford": copyright 1962 by LeRoi Jones. First pub- lished in Kulchur. "Present Perfect": copyright 1962 by LeRoi Jones. First published in Kulchur. "Cecil Taylor (The World of Cecil Taylor)": copyright 1962 by Kulchur Press, Inc. "Apple Cores #1": copyright 1964 by Maher Publications, a division of John Maher Printing Co. First published in Down Beat. Used by permission. "Apple Cores #2": copyright 1965 by Maher Publications, a division of John Maher Printing Co. First published in Down Beat. Used by permission. "Apple Cores #3": copyright 1966 by Maher Publications, a division of John Maher Printing Co. First published in Down Beat. Used by permission. "Apple Cores #4": copyright 1966 by Maher Publications, a division of John Maher Printing Co. First published in Down Beat. Used by permission. "Apple Cores #5—The Burton Greene Affair": copyright 1966 by Maher Publications, a division of John Maher Printing Co. First published in DownBeat. Used by permission. "Apple Cores #6" copyright 1966 by Maher Publications, a division of John Maher Printing Co. First published in Down Beat. Used by permission. "NewTenorArchie Shepp Talking": copyright 1964by Maher Publications, a division of John Maher Printing Co. First published in Down Beat under the title "Voice from the Avant Garde." Used by permission. "Four for Trane": liner notes, reprinted by permission of ABC Records. "Don Cherry": copyright 1963 by Maher Publications, a division of John Maher Printing Co. First publislied in Down Beat. Used by permission. "New Black Music": liner notes, reprinted by permission of ABC Records. "Sonny'sTimeNow": linernotes, reprinted by permission of Jihad Records. "The Changing Same": copyright © 1967 by LeRoi Jones. First published in this volume. All rights reser^^ed. Printed in the LTnited States of America. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 67-29844 Third Printing, May 1970 For John Coltrane the heaviest spirit 1 CONTENTf Illustrations appear betiveen pages 112-11^ 19^3—Jazz and the White Critic 1 1962—Minton's 21 1962—DarkLady of the Sonnets 25 1963—Recent Monk 26 1963—Three Ways to Play the Saxophone 35 1963—A DayWith Roy Haynes 42 1964—Sonny Rollins {Our Man in Jazz) 52 A 1963— Jazz Great: John Coltrane ^6 1964—Coltrane Live at Birdland 63 1961—The Jazz Avant-garde 69 1959—Introducing Wayne Shorter 81 1963—Introducing Dennis Charles 87 1963—Nev^YorkLoft and Coffee Shop Jazz 92 1962—IntroducingBobby Bradford 99 1962—Present Perfect (Cecil Taylor) 104 1962-Cecil Taylor {The World of Cecil Taylor) 110 964—Apple Cores #1 113 1 965—Apple Cores #2 121 1 1966—Apple Cores #3 126 1 8 BLACK MUSIC 1966—Apple Cores #4 132 966—Apple Cores #5—TheBurton Greene Affair 36 1 1 1966—Apple Cores #6 140 1965—NewTenor Archie Shepp Talking 145 1965—Four for Trane (Archie Shepp) 156 1963—Don Cherry 162 1965—NewBlack Music: A Concert inBenefit of The Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School Live 172 1967—Sonny's Time Now (Sonny Murray) 177 1966—The Changing Same (R&B and New Black Music) 180 A Brief Discography of NewMusic 2 3 Index 215