Jazz and Its Discontents: A Francis Davis Reader

From Frank Sinatra to Sun Ra, from the jazz age to middle age, with thoughts on everything in-between, Francis Davis has been writing about American music and American culture for more than twenty years. His essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and the Village Voice among countless other publications from coast to coast. And now, for the first time, here are his most important writings of his impressive career-the quintessential Davis on everything from why Rent set musicals back two decades, to what Ken Burns should have filmed. And Davis's writing is as enjoyable as the music of which he writes. The New York Times Book Review has compared Davis's work to a well-blown solo

Author: Francis Davis
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 03/17/2004
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.04w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780306810558

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/15/2004 pg. 1414
New York Times 04/25/2004 pg. 20

About the Author
Francis Davis is a contributing editor of the Atlantic Monthly and writes regularly for the New York Times and the New Yorker. He is the author of the acclaimed books Outcats and History of the Blues and a biography of John Coltrane (Knopf). He lives in Philadelphia.