Stanley Crouch

Stanley Lawrence Crouch (December 14, 1945 – September 16, 2020)[1] was an American poet, music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, novelist, and biographer.[2] He was known for his jazz criticism and his 2000 novel Don't the Moon Look Lonesome?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Crouch

“The two best things that have ever happened to me were being fired by The Voice and being hired by The Voice, in that order,” he told The New Yorker.

Family

• son of James and Emma Bea (Ford) Crouch.[3][4]
• “His father was a heroin addict and hustler who was in jail when Stanley was born and didn’t meet his son until Stanley was 12. His mother was a housemaid who raised Stanley, his older sister, who became an accountant, and their younger brother, who died of complications of gunshot wounds in 1980.” (New York Times obituary)
• Ex partner of Samerna Scott; their daughter, Dawneen, who goes by Gaia.
• He married Gloria Nixon, a sculptor, in 1994. They lived in the West Village in Manhattan and later moved to Brooklyn. [Carroll Gardens]
• “In addition to his wife and his daughter, Gaia Scott-Crouch, he is survived by a granddaughter.” (New York Times obituary)

Awards, honors, distinctions

• In 1991, helped to found Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, one of the country’s premier showcases for that most American of musical genres < link >
• In 1993, MacArthur Foundation “genius award” winner
• In 2004, Crouch was invited to a panel of judges for the PEN/Newman's Own Award, a $25,000 award designed to protect speech as it applies to the written word.[31]
• In 2005, he was selected as one of the inaugural fellows by the Fletcher Foundation, which awards annual fellowships to people working on issues of race and civil rights and directed by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. of Harvard University.[32]
• In 2005, Crouch was named Man Of The Year by Patrick Lynch of the Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York for being "as bold in his support for New York City police officers as he is in his condemnation of the city’s “cheapskate” attitude in compensating the men and women who risk their lives every day to keep New York City safe and civil", which awards annual awards to men who perform acts of political allyship towards policing as a construct and has been presided over by Patrick J. Lynch since 1999.[33]
• Crouch served as president of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation from 2009 on.
• In 2016, Crouch was awarded the Windham–Campbell Literature Prize (nonfiction).[34]
• Crouch was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[7]

Author of books:

• Ain't No Ambulances for No Nigguhs Tonight (1972)
• Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989 (1990, essays)
• The All-American Skin Game, Or the Decoy of Race: The Long and Short of It, 1990-1994 (1995)
• Always in Pursuit: Fresh American Perspectives (1999)
• Don't the Moon Look Lonesome: A Novel in Blues and Swing (2000, novel)
• The Artificial White Man: Essays on Authenticity (2004, essays)
• Considering Genius: Writings on Jazz (2006)

References

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Crouch cites
  • 1. Roberts, Sam (September 16, 2020). "Stanley Crouch, Critic Who Saw American Democracy in Jazz, Dies at 74". The New York Times. < link > retrieved 6 April 2023.
  • 2. Garner, Dwight (October 10, 2013). "Stanley Crouch's 'Kansas City Lightning,' on Charlie Parker". The New York Times.
  • 3. "Stanley Crouch". NNDB. < link > retrieved 6 April 2023.
  • 4. "California Birth Index (1905-1995)". SFGenealogy. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
  • 5. "HIP WAX (hipwax.com) VINYL RECORDS -- Funk, Soul, Funky Rock, Disco, Breakbeats". www.hipwax.com.
  • 6. Boynton, Robert S. (November 6, 1995). "The Professor of Connection: A profile of Stanley Crouch". The New Yorker. pp. 97–116.
• https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122408837/stanley-crouch/
• < Scott family tree >