John Litweiler

John Litweiler was a writer-editor of Encyclopaedia Brittanica and Down Beat and has written program notes, articles, and reviews in the Chicago Sun-Times, Tribune, and Reader, New York Times Book Review, Jazz Monthly, Jazz Times, www.pointofdeparture.org, etc. He also wrote the acclaimed critical history The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958 and the biography Ornette Coleman: A Harmolodic Life.*

*We do have some copies of The Freedom Principle and Ornette Coleman for sale, in English-language editions, even though both books are now out of print. E-mail books@​goodbaitbooks.com for more information.

Goodbait Books is also offering Michael O'Flaherty's new novel Shiny Shiny. The rock-music host of "Radio Zero" 10 to noon Thursdays on WHPK, O'Flaherty has written about rock music in The Baffler; his essay on punk rock is included in the anthology Boob Jubilee.

You can buy these books from some excellent stores and also from books@​goodbaitbooks.com. And be sure to listen to "Zoundz!," the most dangerous jazz show in Chicago, every Monday 6:30 to 9 p.m., with John Litweiler and Mike Rock, on Chicago's most aware radio station: WHPK, 88.5 FM and www.whpk.org, the pride of the South Side.