The imperfect art : reflections on jazz and modern culture
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The imperfect art : reflections on jazz and modern culture
Oxford University Press, 1988
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Bibliography: p. 141-147
Includes index
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Description
This stimulating and perceptive study of jazz relates the work of jazz artists such as Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Lester Young, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, and Ornette Coleman to such subjects as primitivism in the arts, neoclassicism, good and bad taste, improvisation and recordings and the imperfection of art, and aesthetics in general. Students of music and all those interested in jazz
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