[Jazz
Subtitle: a Samizdat publication on contemporary Western jazz and fusion]
Published: 1979
Language: rus
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: Jazz; History and criticism
Other titles: Kniga o dzhaze; Jazz of our decade.; Will the muses be favourable to mixing?; Latin rock-romanticism.
Work titles: Jazzbuch
Notes: Title and imprint based on descriptive text provided by the seller.

Reproduced from typescript with manuscript additions of English words and names; printed on rectos only. Features a précis of a new edition of Joachim-Ernst Berendt's Jazz Book, and an account of fusion music in the West.

Includes two sections: 'Jazz of our decade (leaves 1-12), dated November-December 1974, describes the largely rewritten and greatly expanded fourth edition (1974) of Das Jazzbuch, now with the subtitle 'von Rag bis Rock' (first published twenty years before, New Grove), focusing on the elements of contemporary jazz, and its performers (Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Frank Zappa, Miles Davis, etc) which Berendt discusses. The second section, entitled 'Will the muses be favourable to mixing?' and written after 1979, looks at fusion music: electric jazz, free jazz, rhythm-and-blues, in both Britain and America, particularly Miles Davis, and John McLaughlin's experiments (Mahavishnu Orchestra, Shakti).

The Samizdat is complete as it is, although the final subsection, 'Latin Rock-Romanticism', only has two sentences, referring to an album by the Mahavishnu Orchestra and Chick Corea, suggesting perhaps originally there was more to come.