Jazz And Its Discontents: A Francis Davis Reader - Francis Davis - Google Books

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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,…