The Future of Jazz
Contributors: Yuval Taylor (Editor)
Publisher: Chicago Review Press; A Cappella
Published: May 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781556524462
Subjects: Genres & Styles - Jazz; Jazz; Music/Songbooks; Music; History and criticism
First sentence: A few years ago I exited the salt mine of jazz criticism, leaving it to others.
Description: "Jazz is now 100 years old, a venerable American institution predicated on the unpredictable. But recent signs - ranging from Ken Burn's documentary Jazz: A History of America's Music to the dominance of reissues of jazz over new recordings - have made many question whether jazz's past has now become more important than its future, or whether jazz has any future at all.

In this book, composed entirely via e-mail, 10 leading jazz critics take on the various issues surrounding jazz's future - the dominance of mainstream jazz, its spread around the world, the difficulty of making a living playing it, the growth of repertory jazz, the dearth of interest among young African Americans, the paradoxically backward-looking nature of the avant-garde, and many others. Their conclusions are as surprising, witty, and edgy as the music itself."--BOOK JACKET.