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Northern Sun, Southern Moon Europe's Reinvention of Jazz  Mike
HeffleyYale University Press, 2005 Hardback. 400pp. b&w illustrations £25.00 Until the 1960s American jazz, for all its improvisatory and rhythmic brilliance, remained rooted in formal Western conventions originating in ancient Greece and early Christian plainchant. At the same time European jazz continued to follow the American model. When the creators of so-called 'free jazz' - Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Sun Ra, Anthony Braxton and others - liberated American jazz from its Western ties. European musicians found their own distinctive voices and created a vital, innovative and independent jazz culture. Northern Sun, Southern Moon examines this pan-Eurasian musical revolution. Author and musician Mike Heffley charts its development in Scandinavia, Holland, England, France, Italy and especially Germany. He then follows its spread to former eastern bloc countries. Heffley brings to life an evolving musical phenomenon, situating European jazz in its historical, social, political and cultural contexts, and adding valuable material to the still scant scholarship on improvisation. He reveals a Eurasian genealogy worthy of jazz's well-established African and American pedigrees, and proposes startling new implications for the histories of both Western music and jazz. CONTENTS: MIKE HEFFLEY is a writer, composer, and jazz scholar. He has a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University and is the author of The Music of Anthony Braxton. |
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