Looking for books about jazz. I got the obvious ones, History of Jazz by Ted Giola and the Autobiography of Miles. What else should I get? What is the best book about Coltrane?
Novels with jazz as theme, as well as other kinds of literature are encouraged too. I remember Julio Cortazar writing a lot about jazz.
I love jazz! Davis, Coltrane, the list could go on...
Nicholas Baker
Read Adorno, he was redpilled
Connor Ortiz
Just because they're popular doesn't mean that they're bad. Also, they're pretty important too, I'd even say that they're essential for any jazz fan.
Ian Watson
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Jacob Miller
I never said they were bad or inessential.
Owen Torres
Miles is one of the few musicians that truly deserve to be called "best ever"
Joshua Nelson
>Miles is one of the few musicians that truly deserve to be called "best ever" Wouldn't there be exactly one?
Joseph Green
Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje
Jazz by Toni Morrison
Caleb Diaz
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Benjamin Diaz
Cmon now, let's control our autisms
Liam Barnes
Seconding Adorno's racist, bigoted essays.
Hunter Thomas
does Bolan have a dank jazz scene? I always see Poles uploading pretty good 60s/70s jazz on youtube.
David Reed
Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece by Ashley Kahn is pretty good, covers the making of the record as well as shining some light on all the players.
Matthew Williams
Yes, there's a whole genre called "yass" which is avant-garde jazz, usually mixed with other genres, folk, punk, electronic. Also there's a lot of good jazz from the past, like Komeda, Stańko, Namysłowski or Andrzej Trzaskowski.
Good places to start with yass are Miłość - Miłość (it's rather "normal" jazz), Miłość - Taniec Smoka (more of yass) and Mazzol & Arhytmic Perfection - a.
Evan Cruz
Oh, yass is from the nineties, and it was rebelling against the state of jazz in that time, which was really bad. Old musicians acting like they're important and the best, everything that was experimental and nice couldn't get popular, or even play in the clubs, the young musicians could only try to imitate the old players and the american classics. So some people decided to rebel against it, started playing their thing, and not caring about the jazz scene. They did a lot of improvisation, while the jazz scene in Poland was mostly about imitating and playing old tunes. So they were experimenting, improvising and just playing their own music.
Lewis Porter's bio on Coltrane is hands-down the best out there. Focus is on Trane as a musician. In this aspect it's heavy on the technical side meant for the musician.
Colton Roberts
Reminder that Harold Bloom thinks hard-bop was a mistake and his opinions are never wrong.
Kevin Collins
Steppenwolf (:
Grayson Wilson
This.
Parker Adams
What does that quote mean
Hunter Gray
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Colton Powell
can someone give me a quick overview of Adorno's problem with jazz?
Aaron Brooks
he was a contrarian
Hudson Rodriguez
He thought the rhythms conditioned one to be happy with our fascist society, or something.
Gabriel White
bump
Noah Gutierrez
and here I was thinking jazz was anti-fascist.
Elijah Butler
anti-fascist at the level of coping strategies and ideological containment within fascist architecture, not of conscious revolutionary politics
Grayson Jenkins
i bet what he'd think about pop music then
Ryder Evans
muh culture industry
Justin Foster
Read Nathaniel Mackey's From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Eminate Not that Toni Morrison Jazz. I swear she wrote that book just to try and fit in.
Henry Murphy
>From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Eminate
Sounds interesting, thanks!
Levi Young
I just finished But Beautiful by Geoff Dyer. It follows -- semi-fictitiously -- the lives of eight famous jazz artists: Duke Ellington, Lester Young, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Ben Webster, Chet Baker, Art Pepper, Charles Mingus. It's sort of like musical criticism written through fiction, i.e. he talks about the way these musicians played and what made them unique in their style and their lives through the lens of short biographical vignettes. The afterword to the book is a seven part musical criticism piece about jazz as a genre. All in all, it is well-written and a great length (around 200 pages) to read in under a week, and absorb a lot.
Blake Jackson
Robin Kelley's biography of Monk is quite good. I also really enjoyed Herbie Hancock's autobiography, especially in comparison with Miles' because they show different viewpoints on the same events.
Jose Nelson
On the road
Juan Torres
you've probably read it as well but Triumph of the Underdog is crazy.
Also Mingus's cat toilet training pamphlet.
Hudson Parker
bump
Blake Turner
>sit in the dark and listen to bach. anything else is inauthentic and alienating
I'm not even sure if there's been this much jazz on /mu/. Thanks op.
Also, second Mingus's "Beneath the Underdog". Crazy, crazy man, that Charles Mingus.
Eli Thomas
It wasn't atonal classical, I guess.
Basically, he didn't like how jazz music allowed for repetition (other people covering the same songs), kind of had mass appeal, and wasn't really dissonant enough to implicitly capture the post-Auschwitz world like Beckett could do.
But he had no clue what he was talking about. Ignored a ton of jazz to prove his point, said a couple things that could be taken for mildly racist against blacks. Countless people have disproved him.
He said stupid shit about poetry as well and then backtracked when Celan proved him wrong. He sucked up to Schoenberg and Schoenberg thought his was a pretentious twat and didn't want anything to do with him.
Jeremiah Davis
Adorno changed his mind on jazz after hearing better stuff. His anti-jazz stance was based on early vocal jazz, not bop, post bop, free, etc.
Ryan Rivera
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Gavin Roberts
He never changed his mind.
Bepob was just as shit as as early vocal jazz.
He never bothered to understand the Coltrane key changes. He probably would have done some mental gymnastics to argue that Thelonious Monk was "complicit."
Adrian Edwards
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Liam Cook
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Zachary Fisher
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Xavier Harris
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Mason Collins
I really enjoyed this book, but I'm not sure how interesting it would be to a non-musician. Part of a small series that mostly covers postwar jazz.
Jacob Miller
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Caleb Morgan
I can't say anything about the quality of this book, but Mezzrow is an embarrassment of a jazz musician. More of a glorified drug dealer than anything.
Aiden Stewart
delillo says jazz has had a major influence on all his writings