Fri, Sep 15
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
New Mexico Jazz Festival: Conversation with Willard Jenkins and AB Spellman
The conversation will focus on the book, Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story, which Mr. Jenkins edited and to which Mr. Spellman contributed.
Date, Time & Location
Sep 15, 2023, 5:30 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
This will be an in-store presentation in collaboration with the 17th Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival presented by Outpost Performance Space and The Lensic Performing Arts Center. The conversation will be live streamed to Zoom, register here.
"With more than two dozen thoughtful profiles, this is a fascinating dive into the sociopolitical realities of being a Black writer—in this case, Black writers who love jazz and express that love in vivid prose. . . . A memorable love letter to Black art, Black joy, and the writers who have sought to tell it like it really is." — Kirkus Reviews
Despite the fact that most of jazz’s major innovators and performers have been African American, the overwhelming majority of jazz journalists, critics, and authors have been and continue to be white men. No major mainstream jazz publication has ever had a black editor or publisher. Ain’t But a Few of…