Name: Jazz in Its Time von Martin Williams
SKU: 9780195069044
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Jazz in Its Time Zusammenfassung

Jazz in Its Time Martin Williams

Martin Williams is one of the most perceptive and entertaining jazz critics writing in America today. This collection of pieces on the past, present, and future of the jazz idiom includes profiles of Sidney Bechet, Ornette Coleman, and Miles Davis, an assessment of jazz-rock fusion, and a look at the pressures placed on musicians and their music by commercialism.

Jazz in Its Time Bewertungen

The most knowledgeable, open-minded, and perceptive American jazz critic writing today. * Washington Post *
Read anything of Williams you can lay your hands on. * Washington Review *
Martin Williams is perhaps our greatest living jazz critic. * Gunther Schuller *
a rare combination of journalistic fluency, erudition, insight and taste ... He is one of the most serious of jazz commentators, with a distaste for adjectival writing and loose talk. * John Fordham, Q *
there is a particular kind of pleasure to be found in reading the work of people who really know and love their subject. Martin Williams is one of them. He has the ability not only to inform and entertain, but to make you feel that you share his familiarity with the men and the music he writes about. * Sunday Times *
The great thing about Martin Williams is that he actually writes about music - and, what's more, does it entertainingly. * Jazz *
There is a particular kind of pleasure to be found in reading the work of people who really know and love their subject. Martin Williams is one of them. He has the ability not only to inform and entertain, but to make you feel that you share his familiarity with the men and the music he writes about. * Sunday Times *

Über Martin Williams

Martin Williams has written and edited a number of books on jazz; his articles have appeared in such places as Harper's, Saturday Review, The New York Times, High Fidelity, Stereo Review, Down Beat, and Metronome.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR003605739

ISBN 13

9780195069044

ISBN 10

0195069048

Titel

Jazz in Its Time Martin Williams

Autor

Martin Williams

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Oxford University Press Inc

Datum

19920213

Anzahl der Seiten

284

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