Softback
244 pages
Limelight Editions
Weinstein focuses on the African inspired music of 13 major artists-Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, George Russell, John Carter, Count Ossie, Randy Weston, Max Roach, Pierre Dorge, Archie Shepp, Yusef Lateef, Sunny Murray, and Ronald Shannon Jackson- The book illuminates their response to Africa as place and idea.
Each chapter is accompanied by a discography, and there is a lengthy second discography as well.