Let Freedom Swing: Howard Reich in Coversation with Nicole Mitchell

The Global Voices Author series presents a celebration of the release of Let Freedom Swing: Collected Writings on Jazz, Blues, and Gospel with Howard Reich, author and Chicago Tribune jazz critic in discussion with Nicole Mitchell, award-winning jazz flutist, composer, and bandleader.

Howard Reich has been an award-winning Chicago Tribune arts critic and writer since 1983.  He is also a correspondent for DownBeat magazine.  Let Freedom Swing: Collected Writings on Jazz, Blues, and Gospel represents some of the very best columns, profiles, and criticism of his career.

Nicole Mitchell has been noted as “a compelling improviser of wit, determination, positivity, and tremendous talent...on her way to becoming one of the greatest living flutists in jazz,” (Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader).  She has been named "Top Flutist 2010" by DownBeat magazine's Critic's Polls.  She was also awarded "Jazz Flutist of the Year 2010" by the Jazz Journalist Association and “Chicagoan of the Year 2006” by the Chicago Tribune.

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Let Freedom Swing: Collected Writings on Jazz, Blues, and Gospel (Paperback)

By Howard Reich, Ellis L. Marsalis

$24.95

ISBN-13: 9780810127050
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Northwestern University Press, 9/2010

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