Flow, Gesture, and Spaces in Free Jazz : Towards a Theory of Collaboration Hardback
by Guerino Mazzola, Paul B. Cherlin
Part of the Computational Music Science series
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Let's try to play the music and not the background. Ornette Coleman, liner notes of the LP "Free Jazz" [20] WhenIbegantocreateacourseonfreejazz,theriskofsuchanenterprise was immediately apparent: I knew that Cecil Taylor had failed to teach such a matter, and that for other, more academic instructors, the topic was still a sort of outlandish adventure.
To be clear, we are not talking about tea- ing improvisation here-a di?erent, and also problematic, matter-rather, we wish to create a scholarly discourse about free jazz as a cultural achievement, and follow its genealogy from the American jazz tradition through its various outbranchings,suchastheEuropeanandJapanesejazzconceptionsandint- pretations.
We also wish to discuss some of the underlying mechanisms that are extant in free improvisation, things that could be called technical aspects.
Such a discourse bears the ?avor of a contradicto in adjecto:Teachingthe unteachable, the very negation of rules, above all those posited by white jazz theorists, and talking about the making of sounds without aiming at so-called factual results and all those intellectual sedimentations: is this not a suicidal topic?My own endeavors as a free jazz pianist have informed and advanced my conviction that this art has never been theorized in a satisfactory way, not even by Ekkehard Jost in his unequaled, phenomenologically precise p- neering book "Free Jazz" [57].
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- Pages:141 pages, XIII, 141 p.
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- Publication Date:12/01/2009
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- ISBN:9783540921943
