Baraka's bohemian blues.(Amiri Baraka)(Critical Essay) From: African American Review | Date: June 22, 2003| Author: Gennari, John | COPYRIGHT 2003 African American Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

In a letter to Down Beat in 1964, the avant-garde jazz trumpeter and composer Bill Dixon complained that LeRoi Jones's jazz writing "too obviously smacks of a kind of "in-group' superiority generally and rightly associated with pseudo-intellectuals." Dixon questioned whether Jones wrote on jazz "because he loves the music and wants to help it and its practitioners, knows the music and feels he has something to say, or if he feels that by stirring up 'controversies' his name will be...

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