g c's List: Baldwin

Please read this biography of Baldwin provided by the PBS American Masters series.

To view our James Baldwin short story for this week, please login to D2L, go to the Content section of the course, and click on "Week 4 - James Baldwin."

Read this passage from Scaruffi's book A History of Jazz Music in which he provides background information about bebop.

From PBS and Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns comes this useful web page complete with short audio snippets of Parker. Please read the biography and listen to the clips.

This is a Google cache version of the "Sonny's Blues" Lecture page that used to be hosted by UC Davis. None of the links will work, but if you scroll down, you will see some very good information in the text about the story and Baldwin himself.

This page was originally built for an AP English course in Jazz and Literature by the instructors Anne Fleischmann and Andy Jones. If there is anything you didn't understand about "Sonny's Blues", you can probably find the answer on this page.

This site offers a night view of one of the primary areas where jazz clubs were located in New York City during this period; this is part of a site that has tons of photos (taken by Down Beat writer William Gottlieb) of the jazz scene in the 40's and gives you a real feel for it. If you have RealAudio, you can click on the Realaudio icons to hear the photographer discuss the pictures.