What Book[s] Are You Currently Reading?

[sansradio]

I'll have to put that on my reading list. Love Helen's
work;she's quite an interesting person herself. Nigerian
descent,born and bred Brit, now living I'm told in Germany. What's Not Yours is Not Yours was a great read...Right now I'm reading A Pure Solar World about
Sun Ra...

Mr. Fox is quite the mind-blower, with a lot of convoluted, fanciful twists; I highly recommend it.

Hadn't heard about this Sun Ra bio. Have you read Space Is the Place by John Szwed? It was published in the '90s; Szwed was my History of Jazz professor.

[splanky]

Mr. Fox is quite the mind-blower, with a lot of convoluted, fanciful twists; I highly recommend it.

Hadn't heard about this Sun Ra bio. Have you read Space Is the Place by John Szwed? It was published in the '90s; Szwed was my History of Jazz professor.

Dang, how fortunate for you!...John Szwed's book was fabulous. A Pure Solar World by Paul Youngquist is not strictly a biography per se
but more about Sun Ra's musical ideas and approaches. In fact Paul
cites Szwed's book as the definitive bio on Ra and I agree with him.
I wish some of our classic soul artists bios were as well researched
and written...I have to read Mr Fox...BTW, here's a link about Paul's
book, real quick. I'm sure you can find better ones...
https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/you...re-solar-world

[sansradio]

Dang, how fortunate for you!...John Szwed's book was fabulous. A Pure Solar World by Paul Youngquist is not strictly a biography per se
but more about Sun Ra's musical ideas and approaches. In fact Paul
cites Szwed's book as the definitive bio on Ra and I agree with him.
I wish some of our classic soul artists bios were as well researched
and written...I have to read Mr Fox...BTW, here's a link about Paul's
book, real quick. I'm sure you can find better ones...
https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/you...re-solar-world

Excellent! Much obliged. This looks like a must. I'm very interested in Afrofuturism as a concept.

Have you had the opportunity to read Szwed's recent Billie Holiday book? He manages a fresh approach to Lady that I didn't think was possible, given the boatloads of Holiday scholarship over the years. Professor Szwed's a really personable guy as well; he was one of my favorite instructors.