"Jazz In Its Time" is a new collection of essays by Martin Williams, the distinguished jazz critic and author of "Jazz Heritage". The book includes an important section on prominent musicians - including popular jazz pianists and such major artists as Eric Dolphy and the World Saxophone Quartet - and on the contrasts between jazz and rock and the difficulties of fusing the two. There is a fine study of musicians at work, both at recording sessions and in jazz clubs, and summations of significant recordings by such figures ...
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"Jazz In Its Time" is a new collection of essays by Martin Williams, the distinguished jazz critic and author of "Jazz Heritage". The book includes an important section on prominent musicians - including popular jazz pianists and such major artists as Eric Dolphy and the World Saxophone Quartet - and on the contrasts between jazz and rock and the difficulties of fusing the two. There is a fine study of musicians at work, both at recording sessions and in jazz clubs, and summations of significant recordings by such figures as Count Basie, Red Allen, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillepsie, Thelonius Monk, the Modern Jazz Quartet, and Ornette Colman. Concluding with an unusual section on jazz scholarship and criticism and the academic world, the book will be essential reading for all serious jazz enthusiasts.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7æ"-9æ" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 272 pages. Index. First edition, first printing with full number line. A collection of various essays by noted music critic Martin Williams, gathering herein many of his best pieces and covering new ground with short columns on Teddy Wilson, George Winston, et al. Written at the dawn of the last decade of the 20th century, Williams writes that jazz is experiencing a period of "stylistic retrenchment" and also questions the fusion of jazz and rock as an 'artistic blind alley' and commercial opportunism. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine in a near fine dust-jacket.