Amiri Baraka

Albert Ayler: Stockholm, Berlin 1966 10/20/2011

EVENT: Jazz Treasures, 10/17: Honorees Randy Weston, Charenee Wade, Robert O'Meally 10/03/2011

Gene McDaniels 08/15/2011

Appreciation: Gil Scott-Heron 05/29/2011

INTERVIEW/PROFILE/TRIBUTE: Interview | Vijay Iyer 03/09/2011

Poet, playwright, critic, and novelist Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones) is best known to the jazz community for his two books, -Blues People: Negro Music in White America, published in 1964, and -Black Music in 1967, both as LeRoi Jones. Long before this, however, Baraka was identified with the New York School of poets and the Beats (he was included in Donald Allen's seminal anthology -The ...more