All What Jazz by Philip Larkin
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Overview: PHILIP LARKIN once wrote a poem to Sidney Bechet that perfectly captures the response of a young English provincial to great jazz. Attending a concert, he is overwhelmed by the classic soprano saxophonist; both awestruck and liberated, the poet can only cry, ''An enormous Yes!'' ''All What Jazz'' records his search for the same enormous Yes! in the years since then. The search led to dissatisfaction during the English traditional jazz revival of the 1950's, then to increasing dismay as he heard the main lines of jazz's evolution, bop to hard bop to free jazz. Meanwhile, he became a novelist and poet - in fact, he has been a leading contender for poet laureate - and in 1961 he began hacking out monthly jazz record reviews for London's Daily Telegraph, a gig he held until 1971.
''All What Jazz'' collects his reviews, 126 of them, each around 500 words long, covering nearly 900 records and two dozen books (a shorter ''All What Jazz,'' collecting his first eight years of reviews, was published in 1970). Most of these reviews begin with three or four paragraphs about a single album - perhaps a bit of condensed history, a summary of other writers' opinions or Mr. Larkin's own viewpoint. The rest of the records get from a sentence or two to as much as a full paragraph of attention. As Mr. Larkin admits, the superficiality of these reviews is largely inherent in the setup.
Genre: Non-Fiction > General > Music > Jazz
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Overview: PHILIP LARKIN once wrote a poem to Sidney Bechet that perfectly captures the response of a young English provincial to great jazz. Attending a concert, he is overwhelmed by the classic soprano saxophonist; both awestruck and liberated, the poet can only cry, ''An enormous Yes!'' ''All What Jazz'' records his search for the same enormous Yes! in the years since then. The search led to dissatisfaction during the English traditional jazz revival of the 1950's, then to increasing dismay as he heard the main lines of jazz's evolution, bop to hard bop to free jazz. Meanwhile, he became a novelist and poet - in fact, he has been a leading contender for poet laureate - and in 1961 he began hacking out monthly jazz record reviews for London's Daily Telegraph, a gig he held until 1971.
''All What Jazz'' collects his reviews, 126 of them, each around 500 words long, covering nearly 900 records and two dozen books (a shorter ''All What Jazz,'' collecting his first eight years of reviews, was published in 1970). Most of these reviews begin with three or four paragraphs about a single album - perhaps a bit of condensed history, a summary of other writers' opinions or Mr. Larkin's own viewpoint. The rest of the records get from a sentence or two to as much as a full paragraph of attention. As Mr. Larkin admits, the superficiality of these reviews is largely inherent in the setup.
Genre: Non-Fiction > General > Music > Jazz
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