Jazz Writings

Philip Larkin (1922?85) was not only one of the foremost English poets of the twentieth century, but also a notable novelist and a distinguished writer on jazz. He was jazz critic for The Daily Telegraph between 1961 and 1971. Jazz Writings brings together Larkin's reviews, articles and essays written for The Guardian, The Observer, The New Statesman, and numerous other publications.

Acknowledgements

viii

Foreword by Alan Plater

ix

Introduction 'The Natural Noise of Good': Philip Larkin, Jazz Journalist

xiii

Prelude Larkin Talks on Jazz (1962)

xxxiii

Part One Reviews in Newspapers and Periodicals

1

(128)

1 The Mighty Mezz

3

(2)

2 The New Bohemia

5

(3)

3 Jazz

8

(1)

4 Harsh and Bitter-Sweet

9

(2)

5 Bad Bold Beauty

11

(3)

6 Such Sweet Thunder

14

(2)

7 Mouldie Figges

16

(2)

8 Blues from the Brickyards

18

(2)

9 Jazz in Society

20

(3)

10 Music of the Negro

23

(2)

11 A Racial Art

25

(3)

12 A Real Musicianer

28

(2)

13 The Critic as Hipster

30

(3)

14 With Not-So-Silent Friends

33

(2)

15 Lives of the Poets

35

(2)

16 Bunk's Boy

37

(1)

17 The Story of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band

38

(2)

18 Should Jazz Be an Art?

40

(2)

19 Jazz and the White Americans

42

(3)

20 On the Wing

45

(2)

21 Timbres Varied

47

(3)

22 Testifyin' to the Blues Tradition

50

(3)

23 Lovely Gigs

53

(2)

24 Didn't They Ramble

55

(2)

25 Very Good Friend

57

(3)

26 Soul Food

60

(3)

27 Gulliver's Travails

63

(2)

28 Disagreeable to Unbearable

65

(2)

29 Jazzmen

67

(2)

30 The New Yorker Beat

69

(2)

31 Byways of the Blues

71

(2)

32 Unacknowledged Legislators

73

(3)

33 Music to Stand up To

76

(2)

34 Jazz-Man's Sound and Fury

78

(2)

35 Satchmo Still

80

(2)

36 In Benny Goodman's Golden Days

82

(2)

37 Negroes of Europe

84

(2)

38 Bessie & Billie

86

(2)

39 Birdlife

88

(2)

40 Calling the Tune

90

(2)

41 That Nice Boy

92

(3)

42 Getting the Gigs

95

(2)

43 A Jazzman's Frenzied Fragments

97

(2)

44 Top Band Talk

99

(2)

45 Crows and Daws

101

(5)

46 Wandering Minstrels

106

(2)

47 Pleasing the People

108

(3)

48 Home Cooking

111

(3)

Part One: Notes

114

(15)

Part Two A Miscellany of Essays, hook Reports and Letters

129

(28)

49 Essay for Weekend Telegraph

131

(4)

50 Thesis Report for the Library Association

135

(2)

51 Letter Concerning The Literature of Jazz

137

(2)

52 Book Report for Oxford University Press

139

(2)

53 Book Review for Library Association Record, LXII, 12

141

(2)

54 Letter to Terry Henebery

143

(2)

55 Book Report for Faber & Faber

145

(2)

56 Essay on Duke Ellington in Makers of Modern Culture

147

(3)

Part Two: Notes

150

(7)

Part Three Daily Telegraph Records of the Year, 1961-70

157

(14)

57 1961

159

(1)

58 1962

160

(1)

59 1963

161

(1)

60 1964

162

(1)

61 1965

163

(1)

62 1966

164

(1)

63 1967

165

(1)

64 1968

166

(1)

65 1969

167

(1)

66 1970

168

(1)

67 Postscript: Larkin's First Essay on Jazz (1940)

169

(2)

The Art of Jazz

171

(2)

Index

173

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