Baraka's bohemian blues

African American Review, Summer-Fall, 2003 by John Gennari

(2.) The liner notes for Coltrane Live at Birdland (1964) are reprinted in Jones/Baraka's Black Music 63-68.

(3.) Baraka's discussion of Ellison's Invisible Man is in the Jazz Review June 1959: 33. The citations from Blues People are on 124, 181, 200, and 220. For overviews of the 1950s' mass culture critique, see Ross 42-64; Frank 1-52.

(4.) Amiri Baraka, liner notes for New Music--New Poetry (India Navigation, 1048, 1981); Baraka (LeRoi Jones) New York Art Quintet (Esp, 1004, 1965). For treatments of Baraka's jazz/poetry performances, see Harris; Wallenstein.

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John Gennari is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Vermont and is a past contributor to the African African Review. This essay is excerpted from a chapter in his book Canonizing Jazz (forthcoming from the U of Chicago P).