Description:
Uptown Conversation asserts that jazz is not only a music to define, it is a culture.Original essays cover jazz historiography, the political stakes of telling the story of the music, and its cultural import, including the music's experimental wing and revisionary takes on familiar figures in the canon: Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong. The book also considers how settings outside the United States have transformed the music.
Review Quotes: This collection of erudite essarys aptly captures the spirit of those conversations...This must-have tome ups the ante on jazz banter.--John Murph "Jazz Times "