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Today is Stanley Crouch’s birthday. I wrote this piece for Publishers Weekly when he passed. publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/in

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Ethan Iverson

@ethan_iverson

Dec 14

Oh it is Stanley Crouch's birthday today. My 2020 obit for NPR:

npr.org

Stanley Crouch, Towering Jazz Critic, Dead At 74

Crouch's engagement with American culture spanned over five decades, numerous mediums and many dustups. His influence on the life and shape of jazz will remain unquantifiable.

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Jazz the Professor

@LikeButta3

Dec 14

#OTD Stanley Crouch joined the ancestors (Dec 14, 1945 – Sept 16, 2020). Poet, music & cultural critic, syndicated columnist, novelist & biographer. He was known for his jazz criticism and his 2000 novel “Don't the Moon Look Lonesome?”. Pt.1 #History

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THREAD #OTD Stanley Crouch joined the ancestors (Dec 14, 1945 – Sept 16, 2020). Poet, music & cultural critic, syndicated columnist, novelist & biographer. He was known for his jazz criticism and his 2000 novel “Don't the Moon Look Lonesome?”. #History blackpast.org/african-americ

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Relaxing and thinking about Stanley Crouch man…didn’t care for his politics…but TOTALLY respected his pen game…wrote some of the best liner notes ever…when you get the chance read them…you’ll need a dictionary and/or thesaurus 🤣…start here…

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Greg Thomas

@gregthomas22

Dec 15

Happy Birthday to my late friend. Stanley Crouch.

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Stanley Crouch’s Vision of the Human Condition — Tune Into Leadership

My friend Stanley Crouch, whose reflections on tragic optimism I wrote about in May, has, after a long battle with chronic illness, joined the ancestors. Though he is gone, his work and his values...

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Jazz the Professor

@LikeButta3

Dec 14

#OTD Stanley Crouch joined the ancestors (Dec 14, 1945 – Sept 16, 2020). Poet, music & cultural critic, syndicated columnist, novelist & biographer. He was known for his jazz criticism and his 2000 novel “Don't the Moon Look Lonesome?”. Pt.2 #History

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Remembering Stanley Crouch. wikiwand.com/en/Stanley_Cro

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Jazz the Professor

@LikeButta3

Dec 14

#OTD Stanley Crouch joined the ancestors (Dec 14, 1945 – Sept 16, 2020). Poet, music & cultural critic, syndicated columnist, novelist & biographer. He was known for his jazz criticism and his 2000 novel “Don't the Moon Look Lonesome?”. #History

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Always been a Stanley Crouch fan. Reading this, by Paul Devlin, even more so.

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America's Least-Wanted ‘Negro’ Critic Rides Again

‘Victory Is Assured: Uncollected Writings of Stanley Crouch’

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TODAY’S AFRO BIRTHDAYS ! FOOTBALL HEISMAN WINNER, ERNIE DAVIS ! NBA PLAYER, ANTHONY MASON ! JAZZ MUSICIAN, CLARK TERRY ! ACTOR, HAL WILLIAMS ! JOURNALIST, STANLEY CROUCH ! afro-universe.com/todays-afro-bi

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Christopher G. Johnson

@CGJohnson

Dec 14

"All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.” ~ Stanley Crouch December 14, 1945 - September 16, 2020

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

@thomaschattwill

Dec 8

Christopher Hitchens reviewing Stanley Crouch’s The All-American Skin Game in the NYT in 1995: “He does not minimize the woes of his forebears, but he is convinced that the antislavery and civil rights movements are at least as authentically American as racism and bigotry.”

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Tony Badran

@AcrossTheBay

Dec 14

I learned a lot from Stanley Crouch: on jazz, on the rhythms of American prose, on Faulkner, on Kansas City, and more. Today would've been his 77th birthday. I wrote this tribute when he passed away two years ago: