Jazz in search of itself / Larry Kart.

Author/creator Kart, Larry, 1942-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Haven : Yale University Press, ©2004.
Descriptionx, 342 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects
Jazz--History and criticism.

Contents Preface -- Introduction: enactment in sound -- Part one: Notes and memories of the new music, 1969 -- Part two: A way of living. Johnny Griffin ; Ira Sullivan ; Wilbur Campbell -- Part three: The generators. Louis Armstrong ; Black Beauty, White Heat ; Earl Hines ; Count Basie ; Duke Ellington ; Arthur Rollini ; Arnett Cobb ; Artie Shaw ; Louis Bellson ; Ruby Braff -- Part four: Moderns and after. Dizzy Gillespie ; Thelonious Monk ; Monk in motion ; Herbie Nichols ; Oscar Peterson ; Stan Getz ; Woody Herman and Stan Getz ; Al Cohn ; Art Pepper ; Sonny Stitt ; Jackie McLean ; Sonny Rollins ; Hank Mobley ; Tina Brooks ; Clifford Brown and Max Roach ; Philly Joe Jones ; Horace Silver ; Lee Morgan, Donald Byrd, Blue Mitchell ; Bill Evans ; Keith Jarrett ; Gary Burton ; Pat Metheny ; Frank Zappa ; McCoy Tyner ; Wayne Shorter ; Ornette Coleman ; Cecil Taylor ; Roscoe Mitchell ; Evan Parker ; The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra -- Part five: Miles Davis. Milestones ; Miles in the Sky ; In a Silent Way ; The lost quintet ; Miles returns ; Filles de Kilimanjaro -- Part six: Tristano-ites. Lee Konitz ; Tristano, Konitz, Marsh -- Part seven: The neo-con game. Jazz in the global village ; Raiders of the lost art ; Marsalis at twenty-one ; The death of jazz? ; "The death of jazz?" revisited ; The Marsalis brothers further on ; The sound-alikes -- Part eight: Singers and songmakers. Gershwin musicals ; Hoagy Carmichael ; Smithsonian pop ; Billie Holiday ; Sarah Vaughan ; Cabaret music ; Chris Connor ; Tony Bennett ; Standards and "standards" -- Part nine: Alone together. The jazzman as rebel ; Anita O'Day ; Jazz and Jack Kerouac ; Jazz goes to college.
Abstract In this engaging and astute anthology of jazz criticism, the author casts a wide net. Discussing nearly seventy major jazz figures and many of the music?s key stylistic developments, the author 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 the author, its development has been unusually immediate, visible, and intense. The author 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.
LCCN 2004041413
ISBN0300104200 (cloth : alk. paper)