A night in Tunisia : imaginings of Africa in jazz
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Discographies: p. 199-225
Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-198) and index
Opening night in Tunisia : an introduction -- Earliest intimations of a return to the motherland -- Madame Zzaj testifies why a drum is a woman -- "A night in Tunisia" : the evolution of a standard -- John Coltrane : sounding the African cry for paradise -- George Russell teaches us to play the African game -- John Carter : the play of roots and folklore -- Count Ossie and the mystic revelation of Rastafari : to Mozambique via Marcus Garvey Drive -- Randy Weston : talking piano like a drum shouting freedom -- Max Roach : drumming the tales of African and African-American liberation -- Pierre Dørge : travelling through a new world jungle armed with guitar and orchestra -- Archie Shepp : magical portraits for the diaspora -- Yusef Lateef : re-visioning the geography of the blues -- Sunny Murray and the creation of time -- Ronald Shannon Jackson : journey to Africa without end -- Beyond the Americanization of Ooga Booga : charting the pathways of Afrocentric imagination
Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-198) and index
Opening night in Tunisia : an introduction -- Earliest intimations of a return to the motherland -- Madame Zzaj testifies why a drum is a woman -- "A night in Tunisia" : the evolution of a standard -- John Coltrane : sounding the African cry for paradise -- George Russell teaches us to play the African game -- John Carter : the play of roots and folklore -- Count Ossie and the mystic revelation of Rastafari : to Mozambique via Marcus Garvey Drive -- Randy Weston : talking piano like a drum shouting freedom -- Max Roach : drumming the tales of African and African-American liberation -- Pierre Dørge : travelling through a new world jungle armed with guitar and orchestra -- Archie Shepp : magical portraits for the diaspora -- Yusef Lateef : re-visioning the geography of the blues -- Sunny Murray and the creation of time -- Ronald Shannon Jackson : journey to Africa without end -- Beyond the Americanization of Ooga Booga : charting the pathways of Afrocentric imagination
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