Playing changes : jazz for the new century / Nate Chinen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chinen, Nate, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz--2001-2010--History and criticism.

Jazz.

Jazz--2011-2020--History and criticism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Nonfiction.

Physical Description:

xi, 273 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Pantheon Books, [2018]

Summary:

One of jazzs leading critics gives us an invigorating, richly detailed portrait of the artists and events that have shaped the music of our time. Grounded in authority and brimming with style, Playing Changes is the first book to take the measure of this exhilarating moment: it is a compelling argument for the resiliency of the art form and a rejoinder to any claims about its calcification or demise. (3z (BPlaying changes, (3y (Bin jazz parlance, has long referred to an improvisers resourceful path through a chord progression. Playing Changes boldly expands on the idea, highlighting a host of significant changesideological, technological, theoretical, and practicalthat jazz musicians have learned to navigate since the turn of the century. Nate Chinen, who has chronicled this evolution firsthand throughout his journalistic career, vividly sets the backdrop, charting the origins of jazz historicism and the rise of an institutional framework for the music. He traces the influence of commercialized jazz education and reflects on the implications of a globalized jazz ecology. He unpacks the synergies between jazz and postmillennial hip-hop and R&B, illuminating an emergent rhythm signature for the music. And he shows how a new generation of shape-shifting elders, including Wayne Shorter and Henry Threadgill, have moved the aesthetic center of the music. Woven throughout the book is a vibrant cast of charactersfrom the saxophonists Steve Coleman and Kamasi Washington to the pianists Jason Moran and Vijay Iyer to the bassist and singer Esperanza Spaldingwho have exerted an important influence on the scene. This is an adaptive new music for a complex new reality, and Playing Changes is the definitive guide.

Contents:

Change of the guard

From this moment on

Uptown downtown

Play the mountain

The new elders

Gangsterism on a loop

Learning jazz

Infiltrate and ambush

Changing sames

Exposures

The crossroads

Style against style.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index.

ISBN:

9781101870341

1101870346

OCLC:

1012690471