Thinking in jazz : the infinite art of improvisation / / Paul F. Berliner

• Autore: Berliner Paul
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1994
• Descrizione fisica: xix, 883 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 781.65/136
• Soggetto topico: Jazz - History and criticism; Improvisation (Music); Jazz musicians
• Soggetto non controllato: jazz, improvisation, creativity, music, ethnomusicology, musicology, trumpet, miles davis, coltrane, performance, composition, bands, venues, rhythm section, rehearsal, precomposition, community, charlie parker, coleman hawkins, dizzy gillespie, betty carter, vea williams, carmen lundy, red rodney, wynton marsalis, art farmer, doc cheatham, curtis fuller, james moody, lee konitz, lou donaldson, barry harris, tommy flanagan, emily remler, akira tana, ronald shannon jackson, max roach, rufus reid, george duvivier, nonfiction, analysis
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Music Texts -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Picking Notes out of Thin Air? Improvisation and Its Study -- PART I Initial Preparations for Jazz -- Chapter One Love at First Sound: Early Musical Environment -- Chapter Two Hangin' Out and Jammin': The Jazz Community as an Educational System -- PART II Cultivating the Soloist's Skills -- Chapter Three A Very Structured Thing: Jazz Compositions as Vehicles for Improvisation -- Chapter Four Getting Your Vocabulary Straight: Learning Models for Solo Formulation -- Chapter Five Seeing Out a Bit: Expanding upon Early Influences -- Chapter Six The More Ways You Have of Thinking: Conventional Rhythmic and Theoretical Improvisation Approaches -- Chapter Seven Conversing with the Piece: Initial Routines Applying Improvisation Approaches to Form -- Chapter Eight Composing in the Moment: The Inner Dialogue and the Tale -- Chapter Nine Improvisation and Precomposition: The Eternal Cycle -- Chapter Ten The Never-ending State of Getting There: Soloing Ability, Ideals, and Evaluations -- PART III Collective Aspects of Improvisation -- Chapter Eleven Arranging Pieces: Decisions in Rehearsal -- Chapter Twelve Adding to Arrangements: Conventions Guiding the Rhythm Section -- Chapter Thirteen Give and Take: The Collective Conversation and Musical Journey -- Chapter Fourteen When the Music's Happening and When It's Not: Evaluating Group Performances -- Chapter Fifteen The Lives of Bands: Conflict Resolution and Artistic Development -- PART IV Additional Factors Affecting Improvisation, and Epilogue -- Chapter Sixteen Vibes and Venues: Interacting with Different Audiences in Different Settings -- Epilogue: Jazz as a Way of Life -- PART V Music Texts -- Appendix A: House Congressional Resolution 57 -- Appendix B: List of Artists Interviewed -- Sources -- Notes -- Discography -- Videography -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: A landmark in jazz studies, Thinking in Jazz reveals as never before how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. Chronicling leading musicians from their first encounters with jazz to the development of a unique improvisatory voice, Paul Berliner documents the lifetime of preparation that lies behind the skilled improviser's every idea. The product of more than fifteen years of immersion in the jazz world, Thinking in Jazz combines participant observation with detailed musicological analysis, the author's experience as a jazz trumpeter, interpretations of published material by scholars and performers, and, above all, original data from interviews with more than fifty professional musicians: bassists George Duvivier and Rufus Reid; drummers Max Roach, Ronald Shannon Jackson, and Akira Tana; guitarist Emily Remler; pianists Tommy Flanagan and Barry Harris; saxophonists Lou Donaldson, Lee Konitz, and James Moody; trombonist Curtis Fuller; trumpeters Doc Cheatham, Art Farmer, Wynton Marsalis, and Red Rodney; vocalists Carmen Lundy and Vea Williams; and others. Together, the interviews provide insight into the production of jazz by great artists like Betty Carter, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, and Charlie Parker. Thinking in Jazz overflows with musical examples from the 1920s to the present, including original transcriptions (keyed to commercial recordings) of collective improvisations by Miles Davis's and John Coltrane's groups. These transcriptions provide additional insight into the structure and creativity of jazz improvisation and represent a remarkable resource for jazz musicians as well as students and educators. Berliner explores the alternative ways-aural, visual, kinetic, verbal, emotional, theoretical, associative-in which these performers conceptualize their music and describes the delicate interplay of soloist and ensemble in collective improvisation. Berliner's skillful integration of data concerning musical development, the rigorous practice and thought artists devote to jazz outside of performance, and the complexities of composing in the moment leads to a new understanding of jazz improvisation as a language, an aesthetic, and a tradition. This unprecedented journey to the heart of the jazz tradition will fascinate and enlighten musicians, musicologists, and jazz fans alike.
• Titolo autorizzato: Thinking in jazz
• ISBN: 0-226-04380-0; 1-282-53870-5; 9786612538704; 0-226-04452-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248201503316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Chicago studies in ethnomusicology.