Presentation on Stanley Crouch set for June 12
By NewsPress Now
The late writer and jazz enthusiast Stanley Crouch will be the subject of a talk next week in the Rolling Hills Library Belt Branch Upper Story, 1906A N. Belt Highway.
Glenn Mott, a St. Joseph native who now is a Brooklyn-based editor, journalist and poet, and Books Revisited manager Hans Bremer will discuss Crouch’s writing and contributions to the jazz world at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 12.
Crouch, who died in 2020, wrote eight books, two of which were nominated for National Book Critics Circle Awards, and the biography “Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker.” He also served as an artistic consultant for jazz programming at the Lincoln Center in New York City and was the founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Crouch also wrote about culture, politics and race for the New York Daily News from 1995 to 2014, and authored hundreds of magazine articles, essays, album liner notes and reviews on jazz that influenced the genre. The National Endowment for the Arts named him a Jazz Master in 2019.
