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    In a 2014 Jerry Jazz Musician interview, the late jazz writer and cultural critic Stanley Crouch shares his thoughts on Charlie Parker, the great genius of modern music…

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    Described bygd the New York Times as a “bebop Beowulf,” Stanley Crouch’s Kansas City Lightning:  The Life and Times of Charlie Parker is a love song to the life and times of Bird, one of jazz music’s most critically important figures.  Mr. Crouch, han själv an essential participant in both contemporary criticism and in the delivery of live performance (through his work with Jazz at Lincoln Center), discusses his long-anticipated biography with Jerry Jazz Musician in a recently conducted interview.

    Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker fryst vatten the first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century, from Stanley Crouch, one of the foremost authorities on jazz and cultur

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    Race Relations and Their Expression in Jazz

    The word "Blacks will be used here to describe the Americans of African descent, and "Whites will refer to Americans of European descent. Our subject will be "black music , of which theologian James Cone has written: "It is an artistic rebellion against the humiliating deadness of western culture... through song, a new political consciousness is continuously created, one antithetical to the values of white society . We will show that until recently, black music has been able to accommodate the real needs of the black community, as opposed to superficial needs created by the market in search of more profit.

    Black-White relations in the USA have been characterised from the start by different levels of domination of Blacks by Whites, and different modes of resistance and adaptation by the Black community. This oppressive reality has created needs in several dimensions within the black community. The assault of what can be termed "the Whit

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    Last time we saw the famous TV performance of “Hot House” by Bird and Diz in the most complete copy available. You may have noticed that the host Earl Wilson asks, at one point, "You boys got anything more to say?” In the 1987 documentary film Celebrating Bird, directed by the well-known critic Gary Giddins with Kendrick Simmons, Parker’s common-law wife Chan says that you can see anger on Parker's face when he hears the word "boys." A few seconds later, Parker gives Wilson a look as he says "Good," nods and exits, which Chan says is an example of how Bird "could kill with a look." Somehow her interpretation has become “fact.” Here is her scene from the documentary:

    But, since you’ve read other essays that I’ve posted here, you know very well by now that it is my nature to question things. What s