A Night in Tunisia: Imaginings of Africa in Jazz (Limelight)

By Norman Weinstein

This is a study of the Afrocentric imagination set to a jazzy beat. The African connection to jazz through recordings has never been fully analyzed until now. In this ground-breaking study, poet and critic Norman Weinstein reveals a long-neglected thread running throughout jazz history. Spotlighting the African-inspired recordings of thirteen major musicians-Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, George Russell, John Carter, Count Ossie, Randy Weston, Max Roach, Pierre Dorge, Archie Shepp, Yusef Lateef, Sunny Murray, and Ronald Shannon Jackson-he also offers a comprehensive discography cataloging the recordings of hundreds more. A Night in Tunisia illuminates the affection, humor, concern, curiosity, anger, and pride toward Africa that jazz artists have manifested in their recordings.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810825252
• ISBN13: 9780810825253
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"