Future Jazz (Hardcover)

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"Future Jazz" benefits from a loose, organic structure, with one profile often weaving into another-a form that, given the subject matter, seems only appropriate....Instead of presenting an argument, the myriad of voices in "Future Jazz" leave an impression of anticipation for the next thing, and a "future" that exists in the passing. -- Nate Chinen, Philadelphia City Paper, August 27, 1999

Howard Mandel...doesn't take a set position with his book Future Jazz. Instead he lets his subjects make their case....that the best artists neither forget their heritage, nor let it limit their vision. -- Ron Wynn, Nashville Scene, July 15, 1999

In "Future Jazz" award-winning music journalist Howard Mandel introduces us to jazz musicians with the joy and elegance of a perfect host. By examining the world of modern jazz through detailed portraits and in-depth interviews, he invites us to leave our reverence at the door, and enter in-or at least listen closely-to the conversation. -- Anonymous

In his probing, discursive, sometimes nostalgic, sometimes frustrated rumination on the state of the art today, Mandel offers insights not just into the musicians and their music, but the business of music. -- Don Rose, Jazz Notes, November 1, 1999

Mandel finds just the right words to capture the essential qualities of the musicians who are taking jazz into the 21st century. In the process, he gives hope to jazz buffs who sometimes worry about the future of the music. -- Portfolio Weekly, December 7, 1999

Mandel's book is not an obituary but a celebration of the off-stream, knotty and rewarding jazz one rarely hears on the radio....Future Jazz is an effective, eloquent call to arms in the form of a wide-ranging philosophical discussion. -- Carlo Wolff, The Plain Dealer, August 22, 1999

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"Future Jazz is the real thing."--Cassandra Wilson

"At last someone's beginning to take this music seriously."--John Zorn

"Robust, communitarian, and, above all, personal, Mandel sits down to chat with a catholic range of musicians, from Cassandra Wilson, Don Pullen and John McLaughlin, to Wynton Marsalis, Oliver Lake and John Zorn, bringing his subjects alive as flesh-and-blood folks, beyond merely musical points of view.--Seattle Times/Post Intelligencer

"Mandel...lets his subjects make their case with regard to race, class, or whatever, he chooses them for their impact on the contemporary scene and their potential to influence developments in the next century.... They reaffirm that the best artists neither forget their heritage, nor let it limit their vision."--Ron Wynn, Nashville Scene

"In his probing, discursive, sometimes nostalgic, sometimes frustrating rumination on the state of the art today, Mandel offers insights not just into the musicians and their music, but the business of the music"--Chicago Tribune

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; First Edition and First Printing edition (July 8, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0195063783
• ISBN-13: 978-0195063783
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
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