What do Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Tom
Waits, Cassandra Wilson, and Ani DiFranco have in common? In
Highway 61 Revisited, acclaimed music critic Gene Santoro says the
answer is jazz--not just the musical style, but jazz's distinctive
ambiance and attitudes.
As legendary bebop rebel Charlie Parker once put it, "If you don't
live it, it won't come out of your horn." Unwinding that Zen-like
statement, Santoro traces how jazz's existential art has infused
outstanding musicians in nearly every wing of American popular
music--blues, folk, gospel, psychedelic rock, country, bluegrass,
soul, funk, hiphop--with its parallel process of self-discovery and
artistic creation through musical improvisation. Taking
less-traveled paths through the last century of American pop,
Highway 61 Revisited maps unexpected musical and cultural links
between such apparently disparate figures as Louis Armstrong,
Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan and Herbie Hancock; Miles Davis, Lenny
Bruce, The Grateful Dead, Bruce Springsteen, and many others.
Focusing on jazz's power to connect, Santoro shows how the jazz
milieu created a fertile space "where whites and blacks could meet
in America on something like equal grounds," and indeed where art
and entertainment, politics and poetry, mainstream culture and its
subversive offshoots were drawn together in a heady mix whose
influence has proved both far-reaching and seemingly inexhaustible.
Combining interviews and original research, and marked throughout
by Santoro's wide ranging grasp of cultural history, Highway 61
Revisited offers readers a new look at--and a new way of listening
to--the many ways jazz has colored the entire range of American
popular music in all its dazzling profusion.
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