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Jazz in Its Time

Jazz in Its Time

by Martin Williams (Author)

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Synopsis

From brief profiles of musicians to serious academic pieces, Martin Williams has been perceptively chronicling the development of jazz for over three decades. In this, his newest collection of jazz writings, Williams brings together many of his best pieces and covers new ground, with short critiques on, among others, Teddy Wilson (favorable) and George Winston (unfavorable). A longer article, How Long Has This Been Going On?, examines developments in jazz during the past twenty years and the current state of the music. Also included are a series of short essays considering the musicianship of jazz greats from Sidney Bechet to Ornette Coleman, Lionel Hampton, Lee Konitz, Art Farmer, and others. Together, these works provide an insightful overview of the development of jazz past and present.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 13 Feb 1992
ISBN 10: 0195069048
ISBN 13: 9780195069044

Media Reviews
The most knowledgeable, open-minded, and perceptive American jazz critic writing today. * Washington Post *
Read anything of Williams you can lay your hands on. * Washington Review *
Martin Williams is perhaps our greatest living jazz critic. * Gunther Schuller *
a rare combination of journalistic fluency, erudition, insight and taste ... He is one of the most serious of jazz commentators, with a distaste for adjectival writing and loose talk. * John Fordham, Q *
there is a particular kind of pleasure to be found in reading the work of people who really know and love their subject. Martin Williams is one of them. He has the ability not only to inform and entertain, but to make you feel that you share his familiarity with the men and the music he writes about. * Sunday Times *
The great thing about Martin Williams is that he actually writes about music - and, what's more, does it entertainingly. * Jazz *
There is a particular kind of pleasure to be found in reading the work of people who really know and love their subject. Martin Williams is one of them. He has the ability not only to inform and entertain, but to make you feel that you share his familiarity with the men and the music he writes about. * Sunday Times *
Author Bio

Martin Williams has written and edited a number of books on jazz; his articles have appeared in such places as Harper's, Saturday Review, The New York Times, High Fidelity, Stereo Review, Down Beat, and Metronome.