Articles by Mark Rattner

Considering Genius: Writings On Jazz

by Mark Rattner
January 26, 2007

Considering Genius: Writings On Jazz Stanley Crouch Hardcover; 339 pages ISBN: 9780465015177 Perseus Books Group 2006

Stanley Crouch's Considering Genius is a collection of essays on jazz that spans the writer's thirty-year career as social critic, arbiter of jazz aesthetics, and antagonist to the jazz establishment. Covering a wide swath of musical and cultural territory, the collection includes essays on some of the great jazz musicians, the roots of neo-conservative ...

Roy Eldridge, Little Jazz Giant

by Mark Rattner
November 21, 2003

Roy Eldridge, Little Jazz GiantAuthor: John ChiltonContinuum, August 2002456 pages, photos: 18 b/w halftonesISBN 0-8264-5692-8Known for his dazzling improvisational skills and intensely competitive nature, Roy Eldridge is generally regarded as a key instrumentalist of the swing era. His extroverted, virtuoso style influenced a generation of swing trumpeters and paved the way for many bebop innovators including Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Dorham and Dexter Gordon. A new biography, Roy Eldridge, Little Jazz ...