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The Electric Years Box Set
by Mike Jurkovic
In a year that has brought us a true bounty of previously unheard majesty including Evenings at the Village Gate: John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy (Impulse!), and Bill Evans; Treasures: Solo, Trio & Orchestra Recordings from Denmark (1965-1969), (Elemental Music) it is only fitting that Miles Davis get his due. And in a very, very big ...
John Coltrane: Blue World
by Victor L. Schermer
Discovering old and forgotten audio tapes of a jazz icon like John Coltrane is always exciting, but their posthumous release can have mixed motives. Taking advantage of the musician's name to make money is less salutary than, say, providing more great music for the public or providing opportunities for enthusiasts and scholars to fill in gaps ...
Ben Ratliff: Come si ascolta il jazz
by AAJ Italy Staff
Come si ascolta il Jazz Conversazioni con Wayne Shorter, Pat Metheny, Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, Joshua Redman, Branford Marsalis e altri di Ben Ratliff Minimum Fax Il titolo del libro è impegnativo nel promettere mari (forme) e monti (linguaggio del jazz), ma di fatto non mantiene le promesse iniziali. Si procede infatti per parabole ascendenti e ...
The Jazz Ear: Conversations Over Music
by Tom Greenland
The Jazz Ear: Conversations Over Music Ben Ratliff Hardcover; 256 pages ISBN: 0805081461 Times Books 2008 Jazz critic Ben Ratliff's new book, following closely on the heels of his well-received expose of the sound and influence of saxophonist John Coltrane, is a compilation of annotated interviews ...
The New York Times Essential Library--Jazz: A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings
by Colin Fleming
Jazz, like several twentieth century art forms, has for decades seemed to gain acceptance as a scholarly concern in part because of a number of renowned writers and critics heralding something that was once, remarkably, regarded as vulgar, base entertainment for the base masses, and now deemed America's indigenous artistic progeny. As with James Agee and ...