Thinking in Jazz - The Infinite Art of Improvisation

Informationen zum Autor Paul F. Berliner is professor of ethnomusicology at Northwestern University. He is the author of The Soul of Mbira, also published by the University of Chicago Press, and is the recipient of an ASCAP-Deems Taylor award for outstanding writing in music. Klappentext A landmark in jazz studies, 'Thinking in Jazz' reveals as never before how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. Chronicling leading musicians from their first encounters with jazz to the development of a unique improvisatory voice. Zusammenfassung Explores how musicians! both individually and collectively! learn to improvise. Chronicling musicians from their first encounters with jazz to the development of a unique improvisatory voice! Berliner demonstrates that a lifetime of preparation lies behind the skilled improviser's every note.

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• Authors: Paul F Berliner, Paul F. Berliner, Paul F. (Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology Berliner
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.1994
• EAN: 9780226043814
• ISBN: 978-0-226-04381-4
• No. of pages: 904
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 228 mm x 47 mm
• Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology; Chicago Studies in Ethnomusico; Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology; Chicago Studies in Ethnomusico; Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology CSE (CHUP); Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology CSE
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries