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Free Jazz

Free Jazz

Jost, Ekkehard

Paperback

Music CompositionJazzMusic Reference

ISBN10: 0306805561
ISBN13: 9780306805561
Publisher: Da Capo
Published: Mar 22 1994
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.92 Depth: 9.16
Language: English
Neither in Europe, nor in the States, has anyone published a volume dealing with contemporary jazz problems in such a concise and detailed manner.--Jazz Forum

When originally published in 1974, Ekkehard Jost's Free Jazz was the first examination of the new music of such innovators as Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, and the Art Ensemble of Chicago. Jost studied the music (not the lives) of a selection of musicians-black jazz artists who pioneered a new form of African American music-to arrive at the most in-depth look so far at the phenomenon of free jazz.

Free jazz is not absolutely free, as Jost is at pains to point out. As each convention of the old music was abrogated, new conventions arose, whether they were rhythmic, melodic, tonal, or compositional, Coltrane's move into modal music was governed by different principles than Coleman's melodic excursions; Sun Ra's attention to texture and rhythm created an entirely different big bang sound then had Mingus's attention to form.

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