SOURCE: "Jazz and Letters: A Colloquy," in Tri-Quarterly 68, No. 68, Winter, 1987, pp. 118-58.
In the following essay, which was originally presented as a panel discussion among Young, Kart, and Harper at the annual meeting of the Associated Writing Programs in Chicago, Young, Kart, and Harper—all writers with a great interest in jazz—comment on the interrelationship among the arts, especially focusing on how jazz has shaped their creative process, the style and content of their works, their self-identity, and their response to other art forms.
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