Mandel Miles, Ornette, Cecil

Jazz Beyond Jazz
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-1-135-88636-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, and Cecil Taylor revolutionized music from the end of the twentieth century into the twenty-first, expanding on jazz traditions with distinctly new concepts of composition, improvisation, instrumentation, and performance. They remain figures of controversy due to their border-crossing processes. Miles, Ornette, Cecil is the first book to connect these three icons of the avant-garde, examining why they are lionized by some critics and reviled by others, while influencing musicians across such divides as genre, geography, and racial and ethnic backgrounds. Mandel offers fresh insights into their careers from interviews with all three artists and many of their significant collaborators, as well as a thorough overview of earlier interpretations of their work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mandel, Howard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Jazz
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

EPIGRAMS

Preface

Acknowledgements

Photography credits

JAZZ BEYOND JAZZ – THE AVANT-GARDE

MILES DAVIS, DIRECTIONS

Me and Miles – un-cool confessions

New directions

Talkin’, playin’, BSn’

Later and after

ORNETTE COLEMAN, QUESTIONS AND CONJECTURES

Ornette I’ve met

Harmolodic dialogue

Circle of improvisers

Coleman family business

Honors

CECIL TAYLOR, GRAND PASSI ONS

The Great Unknown

Late tea, early winter and my dinner with Cecil

Speaking of drummers

FURTHERMORE: THE ONCE AND FUTURE AVANT-GARDE

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Howard Mandel is an award-winning journalist who has published articles in Down Beat, The Village Voice, and The Wire, among many other publications internationally. A longtime arts-segment producer for National Public Radio and adjunct associate professor at New York University, he is also the president of the Jazz Journalists Association and the author of Future Jazz, published by Oxford University Press. Further details on Mandel and his work are available at www.HowardMandel.com.