Jazz Matters: Sound, Place, and Time since Bebop

211 Pages·2010·2.23 MB·English

by  David Ake

Jazz Matters

Jazz Matters
Sound, Place, and Time Since BeBoP
David Ake
univerSiTy of california PreSS
Berkeley loS angeleS london
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ake, David Andrew, 1961–.
Jazz matters : sound, place, and time since bebop / David
Ake.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
iSBn 978-0-520-26688-9 (cloth : alk. paper)
iSBn 978-0-520-26689-6 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Jazz — History and criticism. 2. Jazz — Social
aspects. I. Title.
ML3506.A444 2010
781.65'5—dc22
2010008919
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in memory of Hillary caSe
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conTenTS
liST of illuSTraTionS ix
inTroducTion 1
ParT one
Sound and Time
1 / Being (and Becoming) John Coltrane: Listening for
Jazz “Subjectivity” 17
2 / Musicology beyond the Score and the Performance: Making Sense
of the Creak on Miles Davis’s “Old Folks” 37
3 / Sex Mob and the Carnivalesque in Postwar Jazz 54
ParT Two
Place and Time
4 / Race, Place, and Nostalgia after the Counterculture:
Keith Jarrett and Pat Metheny on ECM 77
5 / Rethinking Jazz Education 102
6 / Negotiating National Identity among American
Jazz Musicians in Paris 121
acknowledgmenTS 141
aPPendix one. SamPle of american Jazz
muSicianS Born Since 1950 wHo STudied Jazz
aT THe college level 144
aPPendix Two. inTerview locaTionS
and daTeS 150
noTeS 151
index 187
viii conTenTS
illuSTraTionS
1. Cover, Miles Davis, Someday My Prince Will Come LP 38
2. Front panel, Sex Mob, Din of Inequity CD 61
3. Inner panels, Sex Mob, Din of Inequity CD 62
4. Cover panel, Sonny Rollins, Way Out West CD 79
5. Back cover, Pat Metheny, New Chautauqua LP 90
6. Front panel, Pat Metheny Group, American Garage CD 97
7. Back panel, Pat Metheny Group, American Garage CD 98
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