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Playing changes : jazz for the new century / Nate Chinen.

by Chinen, Nate.

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Pantheon Books, 2018.

781.650905 C539p

Jazz -- 2001-2010 -- History and criticism.

Jazz -- 2011-2020 -- History and criticism.

9781101870341 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Jazz for the new century

xi, 273 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index.

Change of the guard -- From this moment on -- Uptown downtown -- Play the mountain -- The new elders -- Gangsterism on a loop -- Learning jazz -- Infiltrate and ambush -- Changing sames -- Exposures -- The crossroads -- Style against style.

"One of jazzs leading critics gives us an invigorating, richly detailed portrait of the artists and events that have shaped the music of our time. Grounded in authority and brimming with style, Playing Chhand throughout his journalistic career, vividly sets the backdrop, charting the origins of jazz historicism and the rise of an institutional framework for the music. He traces the influence of commercialized jazz education and reflects on the implications of a globalized jazz ecology. He unpacks the synergies between jazz and postmillennial hip-hop and R&B, illuminating an emergent rhythm signature for the music. And he shows how a new generation of shape-shifting elders, including Wayne Shorter and Henry Threadgill, have moved the aesthetic center of the music. Woven throughout the book is a vibrant cast of charactersfrom the saxophonists Steve Coleman and Kamasi Washington to the pianists Jason Moran and Vijay Iyer to the bassist and singer Esperanza Spaldingwho have exerted an important influence on the scene. This is an adaptive new music for a complex new reality, and Playing Changes is the definitive guide."--From publisher.

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