Like Young: Jazz and Pop, Youth and Middle Age

by Francis Davis

Book Overview

Francis Davis is one of this nation's savviest and most admired music and cultural critics. In this collection of essays he observes the modern jazz and pop that have reached middle age at the same moment as many of their listeners, including the author. Moving through the scales from Frank Sinatra and Billie Holiday to Ornette Coleman and Sun Ra, he comments on music both old and new, on stage and screen. In addition to taking the pulse of jazz at...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306810565
• ISBN13: 9780306810565
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"