{"id":70090,"date":"2020-09-17T17:41:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T14:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/stanley-crouch-contentious-columnist-and-jazz-lover-dead-at-74\/"},"modified":"2020-09-17T17:41:43","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T14:41:43","slug":"stanley-crouch-contentious-columnist-and-jazz-lover-dead-at-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/stanley-crouch-contentious-columnist-and-jazz-lover-dead-at-74\/","title":{"rendered":"#Stanley Crouch, contentious columnist and jazz lover, dead at 74"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Stanley Crouch, a contentious and influential critic, columnist and self-taught Renaissance man who in fiction and nonfiction was inspired by his knowledge and love of blues and jazz and his impulse to step over the line, died Wednesday at age 74.<\/p>\n

His wife, Gloria Nixon-Crouch, told The Associated Press that he died at a hospice in New York City. He had been in poor health in recent years after suffering a stroke.<\/p>\n

In a career dating back to the 1960s, Crouch was a columnist for the Village Voice<\/a> and the New York Daily News<\/a>, a guest on NPR and Charlie Rose\u2019s show, a jazz drummer, a founder of what became Jazz at Lincoln Center and mentor to Wynton Marsalis and many younger writers and musicians, an aficionado of baseball and American folklore and scourge of Toni Morrison, Spike Lee and Amira Baraka among others.<\/p>\n

At home, he read, wrote and listened to music. Away from home, he might turn up anywhere \u2014 dining with then-Vice President Al Gore, chatting up musicians at the Village Vanguard or making a special app<\/a>earance at a ceremony for the National Board of Review awards, when he accepted a prize on behalf of Quentin Tarantino, who appreciated Crouch\u2019s praise for \u201cPulp Fiction.\u201d He was also a favorite of documentary maker Ken Burns, his commentary appearing in \u201cJazz\u201d and \u201cThe Civil War\u201d among other films.<\/p>\n

Crouch\u2019s work was ever a blend of high art and street talk, the prose version of what he considered the profound democracy of jazz. He saw his country, his work and his life as intertwined, advancing \u201cthrough argument, through contradiction, through reinterpretation,\u201d grounded and graced by a spirit of \u201ctragic optimism.\u201d In his 2007 biography of Charlie Parker, \u201cKansas City Lightning,\u201d<\/a> he presents the great saxophonist in his early days as not just a revolutionary musician, but a kind of exemplary citizen.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe 21-year-old Parker was possessed by his music \u2014 by a ravenous need to improvise, to learn new tunes, to find new ways of getting through the harmonies with materials that would liberate him from cliches,\u201d Crouch wrote. \u201cParker seemed to have a crying soul, a spirit as troubled by the nature of life as it wa capable of almost unlimited celebration.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crouch championed new ideas, but was deeply immersed in the past and in some ways preferred it \u2014 scorning fusion and other more recent incarnations of jazz, to the point where he and Marsalis were criticized for unduly shaping Burns\u2019 jazz documentary, and identifying with the term \u201cNegro\u201d over African American. A deep-voiced, bulky man who once slapped the face of a reviewer who had panned his novel \u201cDon\u2019t the Moon Look Lonesome,\u201d he was equally emphatic whether rhapsodizing over Duke Ellington or Charlie Parker, disparaging gangsta rap (\u201c\u2018Birth of a Nation\u2019 with a backbeat\u201d) or admiring Barack Obama (\u201ca rhythm and blues guy\u201d).<\/p>\n

Warm words from Crouch were savored if only for the ferocity, even extremity, of his scorn. He called Lee a \u201cmiddle-class would-be street Negro\u201d and Morrison a writer \u201cperforated by ideology,\u201d turning out \u201cbathtub corn liquor.\u201d He and Baraka so despised each other that when New Yorker writer Robert Boynton called Baraka for a story on Crouch in 1995, the poet called Crouch \u201da backwards, asinine person\u201d and hung up the phone.<\/p>\n

\u201cCrouch has a virtually insatiable appetite for controversy,\u201d Boynton wrote.<\/p>\n

Crouch\u2019s criticism was collected into \u201cNotes of a Hanging Judge,\u201d<\/a> \u201cThe All-American Skin Game<\/a>\u201d and other books. He had been working on a second Parker volume, but could not complete it because of his health. His honors included a Whiting Award, the Windham-Campbell Prize and being named a Jazz Master in 2019 by the National Endowment for the Arts. He was a visiting professor at Columbia University and president of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation.<\/p>\n

Crouch is survived by his wife, a daughter and granddaughter.<\/p>\n

Asmathic and often in poor health as a child, Crouch was raised in Los Angeles by his mother and was eager to learn about new worlds, reading William Faulkner, Mark Twain and other canonical writers and teaching himself how to drum. He was a civil rights activist in the 1960s who was radicalized by the 1965 Watts riots but later turned against Black nationalism. Crouch became an heir to the intellectual tradition of such fellow Black writers as Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray, advocating the spontaneity and inclusiveness of jazz as the finest qualities of \u201cthis crazy quilt called America.\u201d In a 2011 Daily News column, he savored \u201cthose affirmative, good-time American moments capable of transcending one-dimensional materialism.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is the essence of jazz in all its styles and is the continuing essence of Americana when lived to its most potent vitality,\u201d he wrote, \u201cthe top and the bottom mixed into a seamless liquidity of many flavors, all recognized for the light of their deeply human sources.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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