Jazz in search of itself / Larry Kart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kart, Larry, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz--History and criticism.

Jazz.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (x, 342 p.))

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9786611721596

9781281721594

128172159X

9780300128192

0300128193

OCLC:

1024005740