A landmark in jazz studies; Thinking in Jazz reveals as never before how musicians; both individually and collectively; learn to improvise. Chronicling leading musicians from their first encounters with jazz to the development of a unique improvisatory voice; Paul Berliner documents the lifetime of preparation that lies behind the skilled improvisers every idea.The product of more than fifteen years of immersion in the jazz world; Thinking in Jazz combines participant observation with detailed musicological analysis; the authors experience as a jazz trumpeter; interpretations of published material by scholars and performers; and; above all; original data from interviews with more than fifty professional musicians: bassists George Duvivier and Rufus Reid; drummers Max Roach; Ronald Shannon Jackson; and Akira Tana; guitarist Emily Remler; pianists Tommy Flanagan and Barry Harris; saxophonists Lou Donaldson; Lee Konitz; and James Moody; trombonist Curtis Fuller; trumpeters Doc Cheatham; Art Farmer; Wynton Marsalis; and Red Rodney; vocalists Carmen Lundy and Vea Williams; and others. Together; the interviews provide insight into the production of jazz by great artists like Betty Carter; Miles Davis; Dizzy Gillespie; Coleman Hawkins; and Charlie Parker.Thinking in Jazz overflows with musical examples from the 1920s to the present; including original transcriptions (keyed to commercial recordings) of collective improvisations by Miles Daviss and John Coltranes groups. These transcriptions provide additional insight into the structure and creativity of jazz improvisation and represent a remarkable resource for jazz musicians as well as students and educators.Berliner explores the alternative waysmdash;aural; visual; kinetic; verbal; emotional; theoretical; associativemdash;in which these performers conceptualize their music and describes the delicate interplay of soloist and ensemble in collective improvisation. Berliners skillful integration of data concerning musical development; the rigorous practice and thought artists devote to jazz outside of performance; and the complexities of composing in the moment leads to a new understanding of jazz improvisation as a language; an aesthetic; and a tradition. This unprecedented journey to the heart of the jazz tradition will fascinate and enlighten musicians; musicologists; and jazz fans alike.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Great bookBy MarleeBought this as a gift for my brother. He likes it! Says it helped him learn the songs.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Disturbed - Indestructable TAB bookBy DvSThe book is your standard TAB book but this book makes a departure from the previous versions. What i mean by this is that on all the TAB book before this(Sickness.Believe.Ten Thousand Fists). they included the bass too. THIS DOES NOT so if you are hoping to get the bass lines with the guitar (like all the others) get ready to be let down. Other than that. book is great. Could have gotten 5 stars but i wanted the bass lines and it did not have. :(
