These are great jazz reads. Book titles. Magazine articles. Online article addresses:
Music, a collection of essays whose topics include Thelonious Monk, Glenn Gould and Muddy Waters, by August Kleinzahler, who is the poet laureate of Fort Lee, New Jersey, and an award-winning poet, currently residing on the west coast.
Coltrane, The Story of a Sound by Ben Raitliff, The New York Times jazz critic, offers up a savvy examination of Coltrane's music in intricate, breathtaking detail.
Hard Bop, jazz and black music, 1955-1965 by free-lance jazz critic David H. Rosenthal, is a thorough study of post bebop jazz.
Hot and Cool, an exciting compilation of jazz short stories, edited by Marcela Breton.
