Music and the Creative Spirit : Innovators in Jazz, Improvisation, and the Avant Garde 9781461731672, 9780810852846

Like most ground-breaking art forms, contemporary creative music is rarely understood or accepted in its own time, and f

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Music and the Creative Spirit : Innovators in Jazz, Improvisation, and the Avant Garde
9781461731672, 9780810852846

The material presented in this book covers a variety of musical and harmonic situations in which any soloist will be exp

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This fresh look at the neglected rhythm section in jazz ensembles shows that the improvisational interplay among drums,

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