Jazz in its time / Martin Williams.
| Author/creator | Williams, Martin |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Oxford University Press, ©1989. |
| Description | xii, 272 pages ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Listening -- Bechet the Prophet -- Two About Pee Wee -- One About Lester -- Three About Coltrane -- Jazz at the Movies -- Miles Davis Live -- Errors of Interest -- Roaring -- A Rock Cast in the Sea -- Mr. Wilson -- Navarro out of the Air -- How Long Has This Been Going On? -- This Fellow George Winston -- Appreciations -- Lee Konitz: A Career Renewed -- Lionel Hampton: Major Contributions -- Bud Freeman: The Needed Individual -- Thad Jones: A Musical Family -- Bobby Hackett: Everything with Feeling -- Harry Carney: Forty-one Years at Home -- On the Job -- Condition Red -- Whir-r-r-r -- Stitt in the Studio -- Rehearsal Diary -- Record Date: Art Farmer and Jim Hall -- Blues Night -- Bash It -- Annotations -- Count Basie in Kansas City -- A Celebration of Trumpeters -- New Orleans Horns: Freddy Keppard and Tommy Ladnier -- King Oliver in New York -- Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines, 1928 -- The Vintage Henry "Red" Allen, Jr. -- Dizzy Gillespie: The Development of an American Artist -- Miles Davis: Odyssey! -- Charlie Parker: The Dial Recordings, Volume 2 -- The Modern Jazz Quartet: Plastic Dreams -- Early Ornette -- The Shape of Jazz to Come -- Free Jazz -- Twins -- Writing and Reading -- Criticism -- Monk Goes to College -- Biographies, Autobiographies, Profiles, and Oral History -- Grove American I: Not Just Missing Persons -- Grove American II: A Letter to a Friend -- On Scholarship, Standards, and Aesthetics: In American Music We Are All on the Spot -- Why Aren't We Using the Classics? |
| Abstract | Praised variously as "perhaps the greatest living jazz critic" (Gunther Schuller) and "one of the most distinguished critics (of anything) this country has produced," (Gary Giddins, The Village Voice), Martin Williams has been perceptively chronicling the development of jazz for more than 30 years. Both The Jazz Tradition, which many consider a classic history of jazz, and his previous collection of jazz writings, Jazz Heritage, received the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for Excellence in Music Criticism. In this, Williams's newest jazz collection, the author gathers together many of his best pieces and covers new ground, with short columns on Teddy Wilson and George Winston and a longer article, "How Long Has This Been Going On?," examining the current state of jazz. In this last work, Williams notes that jazz is experiencing a period of "stylistic retrenchment or, if you will, a period of conservatism," and questions the fusion of jazz with rock. Williams cites the opinion of Wynton Marsalis and a number of other musicians, who "seem to see the whole fusion thing as a kind of commercial opportunism and artistic blind alley, maybe even a betrayal of the music." Arranged roughly according to the form of the writing (music reviews, profiles, etc.) the pieces included here examine the musicianship of jazz greats from Sidney Bechet to Ornette Coleman, including Lionel Hampton, Lee Konitz, Art Farmer, and others. There are also thought pieces on the development and direction of jazz and jazz scholarship. Together, these works provide an insightful overview of the development of jazz over the past 20 years. |
| Local note | Little-287384--305130049308- |
| General note | Includes index. |
| LCCN | 88031954 |
| ISBN | 0195054598 (alk. paper) : |
| ISBN | 9780195054590 (alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML3507 .W535 1989 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |