Stanley Crouch

American jazz critic, poet and jazz drummer. Born December 14, 1945 in Los Angeles, CA Died September 16, 2020 in New York City, NY A former adherent of Black Nationalism (a movement he publicly renounced in 1979), he took up the drums in 1966 and performed with avant-garde musicians including Bobby Bradford and David Murray. During the 1970s, he taught black cultural studies in California, before moving to New York…