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Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Dizzy Gillespie, Jon Hendricks, Max Roach,
Betty Carter, Jackie McLean, Don Cherry, Sonny Rollins, McCoy
Tyner, Archie Shepp, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, Keith Jarrett,
Wynton Marsalis, and Jack DeJohnette,these are just a few of the
jazz musicians whose conversations with Ben Sidran are recorded in
this volume. In stimulating, personal, and informative discussions,
they not only reveal their personalities, but also detail aspects
of the performance, technique, business, history, and emotions of
jazz. Newly expanded with previously unpublished dialogues with
David Murray, Dr. John, and Mose Allison, Talking Jazz is
undoubtedly the best oral history of recent and contemporary jazz.
Black Music--whether it be jazz, blues, r&b, gospel, or
soul--has always expressed, consciously or not, its African "oral"
heritage, reflecting the conditions of a minority culture in the
midst of a white majority. "Black Talk" is one of those rare books
since LeRoi Jones's "Blues People" to examine the social function
of black music in the diaspora; it sounds the depths of experience
and maps the history of a culture from the jazz age to the
revolutionary outbursts of the 1960s. Ben Sidran finds radical
challenges to the Western, white literary tradition in such varied
music as Buddy Bolden's loud and hoarse cornet style, the call and
response between brass and reeds in a swing band, the emotionalism
of gospel, the primitivism of Ornette Coleman, and the cool ethic
of bebop. "The musician is the document," says Sidran. "He is the
information himself. The impact of stored information is
transmitted not through records or archives, but through the human
response to life."
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