All What Jazz: A Record Diary, 1961-71
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (506 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0571134750 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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. As well as his volumes of poems, which include The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows, he wrote two novels, Jill and A Girl in Winter, and two books of collected journalism: All What Jazz: A Record Diary, and Required Writing: Miscellaneous Prose. He worked as a librarian at the University of Hull from 1955 until his death in 1985. Philip Larkin was born in Coventry in 1922 and was educated at King Henry VIII School, Coventry, and St John's College, Oxf
Lib., Madison, N.J.Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. He structures a piece with gentility and flavor, using collections of reviews brief enough to be called notes to exemplify comments about ``the State of Jazz'' and to propound a nostalgic ideal. While his acerbic derision of modernism as exemplified by Pound, Picasso, and Charlie Parker might be enough to keep all but the most culturally conservative from reading beyond his introduction, readers who can see beyond his opinions will find the poet, novelist, and essayist Larkin. . William Brockman, Drew Univ. From Library Journal Larkin originally wrote these record reviews for England's Daily Telegraph , and he
The traditional vs. the modern in jazz R. M. Peterson I will admit that I am somewhat partial to Philip Larkin, warts and all. He is one of the few poets of the 20th-Century whose work I can read for more than, say, ten minutes and be entertained and edified. I have also enjoyed his literary criticism, as well as a volume of his letters. So I decided to try out his music criticism - jazz, sp. A Customer said Diary of a sourpuss. When a reviewer calls Coltrane's playing 'possessed continually by an almost Scandinavian unloveliness', and questions Thelonious Monk's sense of rhythm, you start to get a feel for what kind of jazz he'll go for. And you'd be right: nothing ever seems to please Larkin quite so much as old-school big band or dixieland, and he's not afraid. Chuck Dennis said Tedium, Thy Name is Larkin. All What Jazz, indeed. While Philip Larkin was a poet of some note, I'm thinking it probably didn't pay real well. So he got a gig, doing a monthly jazz column for the Daily Telegraph. He used this gig to blather endlessly of the superiority of Dixieland and trad jazz, and the travesty and utter disgrace that is modern jazz, i.e., bebop,
All What Jazz: A Record Diary, 1961-71 book has been released since 2015-06-11. All What Jazz: A Record Diary, 1961-71 are written by Philip Larkin and it has 312 of pages on paperback.