An Amiri Baraka article initially published in Metronome posits “whatever the slaves created was owned by the slave owners” as the reason “the majority of commentators [and] critics” of this topic are white. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this main non-literature topic of the Black critics A. B. Spellman and Stanley Crouch. Whitney Balliett long covered this topic, the subject of a survey text by Gary Giddins.
ANSWER: jazz music criticism [accept “Jazz & The White Critic”; prompt on music]
[10h] A. B. Spellman’s book Four Jazz Lives profiles Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, Herbie Nichols, and this hard bop saxophonist of the albums Destination Out! and One Step Beyond.
ANSWER: Jackie McLean
[10e] Jackie McLean played on and titled the third track of Pithecanthropus Erectus, an album by this bassist and bandleader whose third stream album The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady was not canonized by jazz critics until after his death.
ANSWER: Charles Mingus
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