Part music history, part cultural meditation, part travel narrative, Jazz Journeys to Japan is the first book to address the experiences of individual players -- Japanese jazz greats such as Toshiko Akiyoshi, Masahiko Satoh, Makoto Ozone, and Yosuke Yamashita. William Minor navigates the converging streams of Western music and Eastern tradition, revealing through interviews with musicians, critics, and producers the unique synthesis that results from this convergence. And, turning conventional wisdom on its ear, he disproves the widely held notion that Japanese jazz artists don't...
Part music history, part cultural meditation, part travel narrative, Jazz Journeys to Japan is the first book to address the experiences of indivi...
In Lennie Tristano: His Life in Music, Shim has provided a comprehensive biographical and analytical account of one of jazz s most important and most frequently misunderstood figures. Her insights into Tristano s personality are well nuanced, and the focus on his teaching makes a unique contribution to the history of jazz. This vividly written study is likely to become a standard work. Brian Priestley, author of Chasin the Bird: The Life and Legacy of Charlie Parker and coauthor of The Rough Guide to Jazz Eunmi Shim s book is clearly a labor of love....
In Lennie Tristano: His Life in Music, Shim has provided a comprehensive biographical and analytical account of one of jazz s most impo...
For critics and listeners, the reception of the 1950s jazz-classical hybrid Third Stream music has long been fraught. In John Lewis and the Challenge of "Real" Black Music, Christopher Coady explores the work of one of the form's most vital practitioners, following Lewis from his role as an arranger for Miles Davis's Birth of the Cool sessions to his leadership of the Modern Jazz Quartet, his tours of Europe, and his stewardship of the Lenox School of Jazz.
Along the way Coady shows how Lewis's fusion works helped shore up a failing jazz industry in the wake of the 1940s...
For critics and listeners, the reception of the 1950s jazz-classical hybrid Third Stream music has long been fraught. In John Lewis and the Chal...
