Collected Works : A Journal of Jazz 1954-2000
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (881 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312202881 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 928 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Wonderful Book on Jazz I grew up reading Whitney Balliett's pieces in The New Yorker and in anthologies. This book is the motherload--collecting a huge amount of his written jazz work in one place (excluding his wonderful profiles, which are available elsewhere). The work is an insightful and opinionated march through jazz history, written as the history unfolds. Since these acounts were written as players worked, aged and passed on, one gets a real sense of con. A National Treasure David B. Erickson OK, Whitney Balliett never got into Miles Davis's electric stuff. So he's a Moldy Fig. To quote Miles, "So What?" For my money, he's still the greatest observer of the modern jazz scene. What makes him great is the accuracy of his observation: No other jazz critic ("Notes and Tones" was written by Art Taylor, a drummer) has been as generous as Balliett at letting the musicians speak for themselves. Reading his reviews, you often forget he'. You can hear the music This is my sixth copy of Ballietts" Collected Works : A Journal of Jazz 195You can hear the music Larry Brill This is my sixth copy of Ballietts" Collected Works : A Journal of Jazz 1954-2000. I love it that much. Have copies all over the house. Give it as giftslasts longer than a bottle of wine. When Balliett writes, you are there. In the club, at the concert, in the studio with the artists. You can hear the musicMiles, Monk, Mable, Bird, Billy, all the greatsand Balliett's not reluctant to write about the not-so greats. It's all there46 years of. -2000. I love it that much. Have copies all over the house. Give it as giftslasts longer than a bottle of wine. When Balliett writes, you are there. In the club, at the concert, in the studio with the artists. You can hear the musicMiles, Monk, Mable, Bird, Billy, all the greatsand Balliett's not reluctant to write about the not-so greats. It's all thereYou can hear the music Larry Brill This is my sixth copy of Ballietts" Collected Works : A Journal of Jazz 1954-2000. I love it that much. Have copies all over the house. Give it as giftslasts longer than a bottle of wine. When Balliett writes, you are there. In the club, at the concert, in the studio with the artists. You can hear the musicMiles, Monk, Mable, Bird, Billy, all the greatsand Balliett's not reluctant to write about the not-so greats. It's all there46 years of. 6 years of
Whitney Balliett is jazz critic for The New Yorker. They live in New York City.. He is married to the painter Nancy Balliett
For nearly half a century, Balliett has been telling us, in pitch-perfect prose, what we confront when we listen to America's greatest, and perhaps only truly original, musical form. Since its beginnings in New Orleans at the turn of the century, jazz has been restlessly and relentlessly evolving, improvising, experimenting, shapeshifting, a constant work in progress of sounds and tonal shades, from swing and dixieland, through boogie-woogie, bebop, and hard bop, to the new thing, free jazz, abstract jazz, and atonal jazz. For five decades he has captured the moments when jazz history was being made. As jazz critic for The New Yorker magazine since 1957, and the author of fifteen books, Whitney Balliett has spent a lifetime listening to and writing about jazz. "All first-rate criticism," he once wrote in a review of someone else's work, "first defines what we are confronting." He could as easily have been describing his own work. Balliett's knowledge is encyclopedic treasure and yet he has always written as if he were listening for the first time. Generations of readers have learned to listen to the music with Balliett's graceful guidance. Collected Works: A Journal of Jazz 1954-2000 is a monumen
From Library Journal Balliett, known for his contributions to the Saturday Review and The New Yorker, is one of a handful of jazz experts who can adroitly deal with every jazz style from New Orleans and Dixieland through bebop and 1960s avant-garde jazz to today's popular jazz artists like Wynton Marsalis. Equally important are Balliett's insightful comments on the place of jazz and jazz personalities in film and television and his analysis of tendencies in the work of other writers on the genre. . Highly recommended for public and academic libraries, this book will assuredly also find a place on the shelves of many jazz fans in their homes.DJames E. Perhaps the most impressive aspect of this outstanding collection is the author's ability to communicate each musician's style in a way that is both understanda