Change by Kwami Coleman - 9780197780084

ChangeThe New Thing and Modern Jazz\nAuthor(s): Kwami Coleman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc, United States\nImprint: Oxford University Press Inc\nISBN-13: 9780197780084, 978-0197780084\nSynopsis\nBy 1960, musicians, critics, record buyers, and club patrons in New York City agreed that a \""new thing\"" in jazz had arrived. That new thing was what we in the twenty-first century call free jazz, and it represented a significant change within and, for some, a dramatic departure from what was commonly understood as modern jazz. The arresting, abstract sound of the new music pioneered by ensembles led by Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, and other experimentalist improvising musicians became the focal point of an ongoing controversy in the 1960s that called into question their musicianship, legitimacy, and sanity. Flourishing in an age of anti-establishment protest and radical politics--what writer Amiri Baraka characterized as the inevitable expression of Black Amer.