Four jazz lives / A.B. Spellman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spellman, A. B., 1935-

Contributor:

Spellman, A. B., 1935-

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

Jazz perspectives (Ann Arbor, Mich.)

Jazz perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz musicians--Biography.

Jazz musicians.

African American musicians--Biography.

African American musicians.

Genre:

Biographies.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 249 pages).

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, c2004.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This new and retitled edition of A. B. Spellman's long-out-of-print Four Lives in the Bebop Business brings a classic work on jazz back to life, and shines a light on four musicians who've finally gotten their due. In 1966, at the height of the avant-garde and the year of the first edition, the subjects of Spellman's interviews for the book -- Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, Herbie Nichols, and Jackie McLean -- were considered too subtle, complex, or difficult, certainly far from the comfortable melodies of more mainstream artists. Nearly forty years later, in the new edition, Spellman notes the capriciousness of the jazz industry and writes of darker cultural currents, "the most sinister of which is the gross indifference with which America receives those aspects of Afro-American culture that are not 'entertaining.'" Now that the world has caught up to the talents of Taylor, Coleman, Nichols, and McLean, Four Jazz Lives not only celebrates their musical genius but reminds us again of the permanent place they occupy in the pantheon of jazz greats.

Contents:

I. Cecil Taylor 1

II. Ornette Coleman 77

III. Herbie Nichols 151

IV. Jackie McLean 179.

Notes:

Originally published as Four lives in the bebop business by Pantheon Books.

Later published as Black music : four lives.

Includes bibliographical references, discographies, and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

Related Work:

Spellman, A. B., 1935- Four lives in the bebop business.

Spellman, A. B., 1935- Black music : four lives.

ISBN:

0472089676

9780472089673

9780472022649

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.9702

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.