The Velvet Lounge : on late Chicago jazz /

The Velvet Lounge : on late Chicago jazz /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Majer, Gerald, 1953-
Imprint:	New York : Columbia University Press, ©2005.
Description:	1 online resource (211 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	African American music reference.
Subject:	Jazz -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History and criticism. Jazz. Illinois -- Chicago. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11201281

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ISBN:	0231510128 9780231510127 9780231136822 023113682X
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Discography: page 209. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Majer, Gerald, 1953- Velvet Lounge. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2005

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.