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The Future Of Jazz  Yuval
Taylor (ed)Schirmer Books, 1998 Paperback. 254pp £11.99 Jazz is now 100 years old, a venerable American institution predicated on the unpredictable. But recent signs - ranging from Ken Burns's documentary Jazz to the dominance of reissues of jazz over new recordings - have raised many questions as to whether jazz's past has now become more important than its future, or indeed whether jazz has any furure at all. In this book, composed entirley via e-mail, ten leading jazz critics take on the various issues surrounding this debate and the dominance of mainstream jazz, its spread around the world, the difficulties of making a living playing it, the growth of repertory jazz, the dearth of interest amoung young African Americans, the paradoxically backward looking nature of the avant-garde, and so on. Their conclusions are surprising, witty, and as edgy as the music itself. |
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