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Shooting from the Hip
John Fordham
其他書名
Changing Tunes in Jazz
出版Kyle Cathie, 1996
主題Music / Genres & Styles / Jazz
ISBN18562618169781856261814
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=MTkYAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In the last quarter of this century, the status of jazz has shifted from that of a marginalized minority art to the threshold of inclusion in the classical music of our time. John Fordham has been writing about jazz, and talking to people who make it, since the early 1970s, and his books, broadcasts and regular reports for The Guardian, Time Out, Q and The Wire have been described as 'witty-- affectionate-- beautifully honest-- an object of a lesson and how it should be done.' This is accessible, descriptive jazz journalism, not formal analysis. Often written to daily newspaper deadlines, with the sound of the performance barely ebbed away, it catches precious moments on the wing in a spontaneous music that has changed the way we hear, sing and dance in the 20th century. Since he began writing for Time Out in 1970, John Fordham has been open to both the rich tradition and the cutting-edge, and these pieces include studies of Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon, Nina Simone and Red Norvo, as well as newcomers ranging from Cassandra Wilson and Wynton Marsalis to iconoclasts like Bill Frisell, Derek Bailey and John Zorn. Young British jazz stars of today, like Courtney Pine, Steve Williamson and Andy Sheppard caught John Fordham's ear in early days, when they still showed more promise than fulfillment. Shooting from the Hip covers three fascinating decades in this century's music, from the angle of one of its most influential idioms. It is a telling, funny, informative and devoted study of a powerful music's coming of age.