Stanley Crouch

Stanley Crouch ( born December 14, 1945 in Los Angeles ) is an American jazz musician (drums), writer and journalist.

Life and work

Crouch started his career as a musician in the pianist Raymond King in 1966 and worked from 1967 in the band The Quartet, which included temporarily David Murray and James Newton. 1974 Crouch wrote the Ellington Suite and worked from 1969 to 1975 as a lecturer in drama, literature and jazz history at Claremont College. Since 1975 he lives in New York. He operated since then as a writer and published in 1970 a book of poetry. In addition, Crouch is one of the influential jazz critic who today represents a relatively narrow conception of jazz (only what is rooted in swing, jazz was ), with whom he justifies the performance practice of Wynton Marsalis Jazz at Lincoln Center. He also wrote liner notes for countless jazz albums and was also active as a producer, as Joe Henderson's 1985 album, The State of the Tenor - Live at the Village Vanguard.

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Bibliography

Non-fiction

  • Considering Genius: Writings on Jazz
  • The Artificial White Man: Essays on Authenticity
  • Kansas City Lightning: The Life and Times of Young Charlie Parker
  • The All-American Skin Game, or, The Decoy of Race: The Long and the Short of It, 1990-1994
  • Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989
  • Reconsidering the Souls of Black Folk with Playthell G. Benjamin
  • Always in Pursuit: Fresh American Perspectives
  • In Defence of Taboos
  • Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker ( 2013)

Prose / poetry

  • Do not the Moon Look Lonesome: A Novel in Blues and Swing 2000
  • Is not no ambulances for no nigguhs tonight 1972

Literature / Sources

  • Carlo Bohländer u.a: Reclam Jazz guide; Reclam, Stuttgart, 1990
  • Christian Broecking: The Marsalis factor, Oreos, 1995
  • Christian Broecking: Black Codes, Criminal Verlag, 2005
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