Chinen N. - Playing Changes -Jazz For The New Century

Playing Changes offers an authoritative and stylish portrait of the artists and events that have shaped jazz music in recent times. It delves into the various changes - ideological, technological, theoretical and practical - which jazz musicians have had to adapt to, from the turn of the century to now. Author Nate Chinen provides an insightful account of the origins of jazz historicism and the rise of an institutional framework for the music. He also examines the role of jazz education in a commercial age, and the effect of a globalized jazz landscape. Moreover, Chinen demonstrates the relationship between jazz and postmillennial hip-hop and R&B, and highlights a new generation of shape-shifting jazz elders. Altogether, Playing Changes provides an essential guide to this adaptive, new music and the complex realities it evokes.