Like Young - Jazz, Pop, Youth, and Middle Age

Moving from Billie Holiday to Ornette Coleman to Sun Ra, Francis Davis examines a wide range of jazz both old and new, on stage and screen, as well as chapters on such pop icons as Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Burt Bacharach, and Lou Reed. Davis pinpoints our collective longing for a mythologized time when both we and our music were younger-and more inclined to take risks.