Francis Davis, Author Oxford University Press, USA $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-19-505587-0
Composers Duke Ellington, Gil Evans and Cecil Taylor, instrumentalists Miles Davis, Wynton Marsalis and Lester Young, singers Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra, political satirist Mort Sahl are among the stars discussed here, along...
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Francis Davis, Author Hyperion Books $24.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6052-4
Davis, music critic for the Atlantic, treats the history of the blues with an emphasis on his own involvement with this music. He believes that attempts to discover the origins of the blues, often based on simplistic theories about slavery and...
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Francis Davis, Author Hyperion Books $16.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7868-8124-6
Atlantic Monthly music critic Davis traces the Blues from its Delta beginnings at the start of the century to its recent revival, focusing on individual artists as well as examining the way changes in race relations have altered perceptions of the...
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Francis Davis, Author Schirmer Trade Books $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-02-870471-5
Most contemporary jazz is too homogeneous and conservative for Davis (The History of the Blues), who says the unifying theme of this idiosyncratic collection of essays is his ""growing disenchantment with contemporary jazz."" He includes a number of
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Francis Davis, Author, Pauline Kael, Author . Da Capo $18 (134p) ISBN 978-0-306-81192-0
This slim but potent volume offers movie lovers an elegant good-bye from the acerbic, wildly opinionated National Book Award– winning film critic who reigned at the New Yorker
from 1968 to 1991. The New York Times
called her "probably...
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