PLAYING CHANGES

By one of the most respected and stylish critics of jazz, an invigorating, authoritative book arguing that, far from reaching a term inus at the end of the twentieth century, the genre has embarked on a bold new evolutionary phase, exhilarating for its rich, cosmop olitan multiplicity of trends and variety of virtuoso musicians.With élan and perspicacity, Chinen accounts for the rise of jazz his toricism in the late twentieth century and the perennial crisis of jazz's bond with the public. He shows how an influential classici st agend...[Leer más]