Jazz in search of itself [[electronic resource] /] / Larry Kart

• Autore: Kart Larry <1942->
• Pubblicazione: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resource (x, 342 p.))
• Disciplina: 781.65/09
• Soggetto topico: Jazz - History and criticism
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE. Notes and Memories of the New Music, 1969 -- PART TWO. A Way of Living -- PART THREE. The Generators -- PART FOUR. Moderns and After -- PART FIVE. Miles Davis -- PART SIX. Tristano-ites -- PART SEVEN. The Neo-Con Game -- PART EIGHT. Singers and Songmakers -- PART NINE. Alone Together
• Sommario/riassunto: In this engaging and astute anthology of jazz criticism, Larry Kart casts a wide net. Discussing nearly seventy major jazz figures and many of the music's key stylistic developments, Kart sees jazz as a unique perpetual narrative-one in which musicians, their audiences, and the evolving music itself are intimately intertwined. Because jazz arose from the collision of specific peoples under particular conditions, says Kart, its development has been unusually immediate, visible, and intense. Kart has reacted to and judged the music in a similarly active, attentive, and personal manner. His involvement and attention to detail are visible in these pieces: essays that analyze the supposed return to tradition that the music of Wynton Marsalis has come to exemplify; searching accounts of the careers of Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Bill Evans, and Lennie Tristano; and writing that explores jazz's relationship to American popular song and examines the jazz musician's role as actual and would-be social rebel.
• Titolo autorizzato: Jazz in search of itself
• ISBN: 1-281-72159-X; 9786611721596; 0-300-12819-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777781803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II