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Jazz in Its Time

Jazz in Its Time

Williams, Martin

Paperback

JazzMusic Reference

ISBN10: 0195069048
ISBN13: 9780195069044
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: May 30 1991
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.52 Depth: 8.22
Language: English
From record album liner notes to serious academic pieces, Martin Williams has been perceptively chronicling the development of jazz for over three decades. In this, his newest collection of jazz writings, Williams brings 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.

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