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RobertLevin
Robert Levin
The author of When Pacino’s Hot, I’m Hot: A Miscellany of Stories & Commentary, The Drill Press, he is also the co-author and coeditor, respectively, of two collections of essays about jazz and rock in the ’60s: Music & Politics (with John Sinclair), World Publishing, and Giants of Black Music (with Pauline Rivelli), Da Capo Press.
In addition, his fiction and essays have appeared in a number of collections, including: Twenty-Minute Fandangoes and Forever Changes (Random House), Best of Nuvein Fiction and the Word Riot 2003 Anthology.
His comedic short story, “When Pacino’s Hot, I’m Hot,” was a storySouth Million Writers Award Notable Story of 2004.
A staunch and sometimes bellicose defender of the Free Jazz movement of the 1960s, Levin wrote for The Village Voice (where his regular column played a significant role in establishing an audience for Cecil Taylor), Rolling Stone, Down Beat, Metronome, American Record Guide and Jazz & Pop Magazine (of which he was Jazz Editor).
His article in The Village Voice, “200,000 Invisible Men”—in which he questioned the tactics and ultimate value of the 1963 March on Washington—drew letters to the editor for the better part of a year and was quoted and discussed in a Norman Mailer Esquire Magazine column.
Levin, described by Nat Hentoff as “a writer from whom I always learn something,” also wrote some 100 liner notes for Blue Note Records, Prestige Records, Impulse Records, United Artists, etc., and for such artists as John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Cecil Taylor and Coleman Hawkins. Levin has said of his liner notes, many of which were written before he was twenty-one: “They’re all still out there and I wish I could rewrite every last one of them—especially the notes for [Coltrane’s] Blue Train.”
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From WikipediaThe author of When Pacino’s Hot, I’m Hot: A Miscellany of Stories & Commentary, The Drill Press, he is also the co-author and coeditor, respectively, of two collections of essays about jazz and rock in the ’60s: Music & Politics (with John Sinclair), World Publishing, and Giants of Black Music (with Pauline Rivelli), Da Capo Press.
In addition, his fiction and essays have appeared in a number of collections, including: Twenty-Minute Fandangoes and Forever Changes (Random House), Best of Nuvein Fiction and the Word Riot 2003 Anthology.
His comedic short story, “When Pacino’s Hot, I’m Hot,” was a storySouth Million Writers Award Notable Story of 2004.
A staunch and sometimes bellicose defender of the Free Jazz movement of the 1960s, Levin wrote for The Village Voice (where his regular column played a significant role in establishing an audience for Cecil Taylor), Rolling Stone, Down Beat, Metronome, American Record Guide and Jazz & Pop Magazine (of which he was Jazz Editor).
His article in The Village Voice, “200,000 Invisible Men”—in which he questioned the tactics and ultimate value of the 1963 March on Washington—drew letters to the editor for the better part of a year and was quoted and discussed in a Norman Mailer Esquire Magazine column.
Levin, described by Nat Hentoff as “a writer from whom I always learn something,” also wrote some 100 liner notes for Blue Note Records, Prestige Records, Impulse Records, United Artists, etc., and for such artists as John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Cecil Taylor and Coleman Hawkins. Levin has said of his liner notes, many of which were written before he was twenty-one: “They’re all still out there and I wish I could rewrite every last one of them—especially the notes for [Coltrane’s] Blue Train.”
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