Thulani Davis - Nothing but the Music: Documentaries from Nightclubs, Lofts, Dance Halls & a Tailor’s Shop in Dakar Book xx1980 John Billows

John Billows

some of it was spent swimming in nudist lakes at Grunewald forest in Berlin

and percussive stringed instruments

State Of Mind by STIFF RICHARDS

Thulani Davis - Nothing but the Music: Documentaries from Nightclubs, Lofts, Dance Halls & a Tailor’s Shop in Dakar Book xx1980 John BillowsBook. 5 x 7. 5 inches, paperback, 63 pages. The sounds of late 70s and 80s east coast avant garde jazz, soul, and punk rock are well documented, but in Nothing but the Music Thulani Davis gives us something beyond, delivering a collection of synesthetic, transportive documentary poems that breathe anecdotal and impressionistic life into a sonic social history about which most can only speculate. Davis verse takes free flight with its muses, scatting