Publisher: Da Capo Press
Copyright 2004, pages 336
English Original Edition

From Frank Sinatra to Sun Ra, from the jazz age to middle age, with thoughts on everything in-between, Francis Davis has been writing about American music and American culture for more than twenty years. His essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and the Village Voice among countless other publications from coast to coast.

Here are his most important writings-the quintessential Davis on everything from why Rent set musicals back two decades, to what Ken Burns should have filmed. And Davis's writing is as enjoyable as the music of which he writes.
The New York Times Book Review has compared Davis's work to "a well-blown solo."

• Francis Davis - Jazz and Its Discontents
• Swing - The Best Musicians and Recordings
• Jazz: From Its Origins To The Present