A plug on behalf of John Litweiler

[Larry Kart]

John posted this the other day on Facebook:

"www.goodbaitbooks.com is going to vanish in 4 days. This may be your last chance to read the essay on the state of jazz in the 21st century. And the part of my autobiography that tells about my trip to heaven. And "The Buddy Bolden Case" and the essays about Herbie Nichols, Lester Bowie, Bernie McGann, and the Henry Threadgill review."

Some terrific writing here.

[Chuck Nessa]

True dat!

 

[paul secor]

I'll definitely have to scan the Lester Bowie and Herbie Nichols essays, plus "The Buddy Bolden Case".  The Bowie essay is the best thing I've ever read on Mr. Bowie's music.

Anyone interested should check some or all of this out before it disappears.

And thanks to Larry for the heads up.

Edited September 22, 2017 by paul secor

[lipi]

https://web.archive.org/web/20170801191526/http://www.goodbaitbooks.com/

Quick, someone riff on the words of Mark Twain.

[Big Beat Steve]

Thanks for the reminder.

Have done what's necessary to preserve this for me.

 

"Distinguished female jazz scholar Charlotte Bronte" .... hee hee!

[Hot Ptah]

 

Thanks. I just printed off the contents of the site onto paper.

[JSngry]

I highly recommend both of the novels. It takes a lot to get me to finish a novel these days, and both of these had that thing. One, I literally read from cover to cover. at one extended sitting.

[paul secor]

Site is now gone.

[Big Beat Steve]

Do we know why the site went down (or had to go down)?

[clifford_thornton]

yes, thankfully it's all still available on archive.org even if the original site is gone.

[JSngry]

Are there backstock of those novels? Seriously, I had more fun reading them than anything I had read in a looooong time!