Bibliograph

The Velvet Lounge, on late Chicago jazz, Gerald Majer

Type

Label

The Velvet Lounge, on late Chicago jazz, Gerald Majer

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Discography: page 209

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Velvet Lounge

Nature of contents

dictionariesdiscographies

Oclc number

560318444

Responsibility statement

Gerald Majer

Sub title

on late Chicago jazz

Summary

Troubled urban neighborhoods and jazz-club havens were the backdrop of Gerald Majer's life growing up in sixties and seventies Chicago. The Velvet Lounge, an original hybrid of memoir, biography, and musical description, reflects this history and pursues a sustained meditation on jazz along with a probing exploration of race and class and how they defined the material and psychic divides of a city. With the instrument of a supple, lyrical prose style, Majer elaborates the book's themes through literary and intellectual forays as carefully constructed and as passionately articul

Table Of Contents

Jug eyes -- Stitt's time -- Proxima ra -- Monstrosioso -- Batterie -- The Velvet Lounge -- Le serpent qui danse -- Dreaming of Roscoe Mitchell -- Intuitive research beings

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