Black Music - Large Print Author:Leroi Brown Black Music, a logical successor to Blues People, is a book about the brilliant jazz muscians who emerged prior to 1968. Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shep, Sun-Ra, Thelonius Monk, Sonny Murray and more. It is comprised of essays, reviews, interviews, record-liner notes, musical analyses and personal impressions written from 1959 to 1967... more ». "Most jazz critics have been white Americans," LeRoi Jones writes, "but most important jazz musicians have not been." Jone's writing captures the essence of the jazz world with an excitement and empathy and terrific knack for the true colloquial phrase, the right *feeling*.« less