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Jazz in Its Time

By: Martin Williams

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Paperback | 1 June 1991

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From record album liner notes 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 columns on Teddy Wilson and George Winston and a longer article, "How Long Has This Been Going On?," examining the current state of jazz. In this last work, Williams notes that jazz is experiencing a period of "stylistic retrenchment or, if you will, a period of conservatism," and questions the fusion of jazz with rock. Williams cites the opinion of Wynton Marsalis and a number of other musicians, who "seem to see the whole fusion thing as a kind of commercial opportunism and artistic blind alley, maybe even a betrayal of the music."
Arranged roughly according to the form of the writing (music reviews, profiles, etc.) the pieces included here examine the musicianship of jazz greats from Sidney Bechet to Ornette Coleman, including Lionel Hampton, Lee Konitz, Art Farmer, and others. There are also thought pieces on the development and direction of jazz and jazz scholarship. Together, these works provide an insightful overview of the development of jazz over the past twenty years.

Industry 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

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Listening
Bechet the Prophet	p. 3
Two About Pee Wee	p. 7
One About Lester	p. 11
Three About Coltrane	p. 12
Jazz at the Movies	p. 17
Miles Davis Live	p. 21
Errors of Interest	p. 25
Roaring	p. 33
A Rock Cast in the Sea	p. 35
Mr. Wilson	p. 41
Navarro out of the Air	p. 43
How Long Has This Been Going On?	p. 45
This Fellow George Winston	p. 59
Appreciations
Lee Konitz: A Career Renewed	p. 65
Lionel Hampton: Major Contributions	p. 70
Bud Freeman: The Needed Individual	p. 76
Thad Jones: A Musical Family	p. 81
Bobby Hackett: Everything with Feeling	p. 86
Harry Carney: Forty-one Years at Home	p. 91
On the Job
Condition Red	p. 99
Whir-r-r-r	p. 105
Stitt in the Studio	p. 112
Rehearsal Diary	p. 119
Record Date: Art Farmer and Jim Hall	p. 130
Blues Night	p. 137
Bash It	p. 147
Annotations
Count Basie in Kansas City	p. 163
A Celebration of Trumpeters	p. 169
New Orleans Horns: Freddy Keppard and Tommy Ladnier	p. 169
King Oliver in New York	p. 173
Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines, 1928	p. 177
The Vintage Henry "Red" Allen, Jr.	p. 179
Dizzy Gillespie: The Development of an American Artist	p. 184
Miles Davis: Odyssey!	p. 198
Charlie Parker: The Dial Recordings, Volume 2	p. 201
The Modern Jazz Quartet: Plastic Dreams	p. 207
Early Ornette	p. 211
The Shape of Jazz to Come	p. 211
Free Jazz	p. 217
Twins	p. 222
Writing and Reading
Criticism	p. 229
Monk Goes to College	p. 233
Biographies, Autobiographies, Profiles, and Oral History	p. 236
Grove American I: Not Just Missing Persons	p. 240
Grove American II: A Letter to a Friend	p. 243
On Scholarship, Standards, and Aesthetics: In American Music We Are All on the Spot	p. 246
Why Aren't We Using the Classics?	p. 252
Index	p. 257
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