Scott Saul

Scott Saul, Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, is author of Freedom Is, Freedom Ain’t: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties.

Off Minor

Robin D.G. Kelley’s Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original restores the pianist and composer to the history he lived through.

  • Scott Saul

Brazil’s Dreamer

The disenchantment and re-enchantment of Chico Buarque.

  • Scott Saul

The Devil and Henry Dumas

A lost voice of the Black Arts Movement.

  • Scott Saul

Mirage or No Mirage

Reading Los Angeles.

  • Scott Saul

Review: Crossing Over

Reporting from the border zones. 

  • Scott Saul

Review: Hine and Males

  • Scott Saul

A Groove of History

On Ralph Ellison’s Juneteenth.

  • Scott Saul

Giant Steps

A review of two books on Coltrane.

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