This text looks at the major developments in jazz during a decade which proved to be hugely exciting for the jazz world. British jazz writer, scholar and photographer Stuart Nicholson, author of the biography "Ella Fitzgerald", examines the popularity of the "neo-classicists," but also surveys all the major jazz movements of this renascent decade: bop and post-bop, free jazz, big bands, fusion, vocal jazz and traditional jazz. The text is accompanied by a full discography and over 80 photographs by the author. Whether the reader favours New Orleans or Chicago, avant-garde or jazz rock, third stream or West Coast, this text provides a guide to today's jazz.
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To suggest that jazz enjoyed a resurgence in the 1980s is to suggest that it dropped dead in the 1970s--a proposition with which many a jazz fan would take issue. But you don't have to accept this thesis to enjoy Stuart Nicholson's book, which covers an astounding number of performers and schools. Nicholson, who has also written acclaimed biographies of Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, is a superb critic, whose enthusiasm is always leavened with dry humor. And you won't find a better wide-angle portrait of the jazz world, resurgent or not.
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