Thinking in Jazz : The Infinite Art of Improvisation (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (717 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226043819 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 904 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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"I recommend this for all listeners of jazz or practitioners in" according to M. A. Blizard. I am no jazz musician. In fact, I am not a musician at all and musical theory seems to pass beyond my understanding altogether. However, Paul Berliner's remarkable anthropological study offers more that insight and guidance for jazz musicians as they develop their improvisational skills: it provides an outline for education / learning that illum. "Kindle review" according to Simon Lahaye. I bought the Kindle edition. Great book! Two points I want to address:1. Some very minor OCR issues. "1" instead of "I" and some "rn" instead of "m". No big problems.2. The second half of the book is musical examples with analysis and commentary. This would be better viewed on a kindle DX perhaps. And flipping back and forth between the text and. A Monumental Breakthrough in Jazz Studies ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Eddie Landsberg The blurb on the back cover of this book has a slight understatement It begins, "A landmark in jazz studies,"Not since the advent of the long playing record and the publication of Leonard Feather's "Encyclopedia of Jazz" has anyone made such an enormous, substantive, light shedding contribution to Jazz (outside a recording studio.) This book is
Together, the interviews provide insight into the production of jazz by great artists like Betty Carter, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, and Charlie Parker.Thinking in Jazz overflows with musical examples from the 1920s to the present, including original transcriptions (keyed to commercial recordings) of collective improvisations by Miles Davis's and John Coltrane's groups. Chronicling leading musicians from their first encounters with jazz to the development of a unique improvisatory voice, Paul Berliner documents the lifetime of preparation that lies behind the skilled improviser's every idea.The product of more than fifteen years of immersion in the jazz world, Thinking in Jazz combines participant observation with detailed musicological analysis, the author's experience as a jazz trumpeter, interpretations of published material by scholars and performers, and, above all, original data from interviews with more than fifty
From Library Journal This will certainly be the definitive source on improvisational jazz. Cutting no corners, he includes a vast range of article topics (from inspiration and arrangements to evaluation and audience interaction), music texts (from the 1920s to the present), artist interviews, and disc-, video-, and bibliographies. This extraordinary accomplishment is well worth the investment for all academic and large public libraries.Cynthia Ann Cordes, Onondaga Cty. . Of the caliber of Grove's Dictionary of Music, this book is no less important to any serious music collection. Practicing musicians will be satisfied by the text and musical examples, while lay readers will come to understand the significance of jazz in American history and culture. P.L., Syracuse, N.Y.Copyr
Paul F. Berliner is professor of ethnomusicology at Northwestern University. He is the author of The Soul of Mbira, also published by the University of Chicago Press, and is the recipient of an ASCAP-Deems Taylor award for outstanding writing in music.