"Playing the Changing: Jazz in the 21st Century" by Nate Chinen (author) and Mariko Sakamoto (translator)
ISBN:978-4-910511-84-9
"Chinen argues that the 21st century will be a fertile time for jazz." -- Pitchfork
"A great book about contemporary jazz" -- The Washington Post
"The imagination and expressiveness of the band, which depicts an ever-expanding sound with infinite possibilities" - Los Angeles Times
"Brilliantly sharp" -- Sonny Rollins
"The author's deep understanding and knowledge of jazz makes for fascinating reading." --Herbie Hancock
Kamasi Washington to Wynton Marsalis
Robert Glasper and Esperanza Spalding
And Brad Mehldau and Mary Halvorson...
How has jazz changed in America in the 21st century?
And how it won't change...
This masterpiece, which received rave reviews from all major US media outlets upon publication, has finally arrived!
Former New York Times jazz critic and 13-time winner of the Jazz Journalists Association's Outstanding Writing Award.
The author, one of America's leading jazz critics,
With his vast knowledge and elegant writing style, he explains the appeal of 21st century jazz.
*A list of 154 must-listen albums of the 21st century (up to the present time of 2024)
(From this book)
Jazz has always explored the frontiers and experimented across multiple disciplines, in the past as well as in the present. But avant-garde discipline and formal invention have now infiltrated the mainstream to such an extent that it has shifted jazz's aesthetic center. Even the resurgence of antiquarian hot jazz enthusiasm -- the preserve of those who proudly acknowledge and embrace nostalgia -- has been unable to stem the current trend toward polyglot hypermodernism, a trend toward unexpected mixtures and assemblages.
(Featured Artists)
Kamasi Washington, Wynton Marsalis, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Brad Mehldau, Esperanza Spalding, Joshua Redman, John Zorn, Tim Berne, Jack DeJohnette, Paul Motian, Wayne Shorter Quartet, Jason Moran, Mark Turner, Ornette Coleman, Vijay Iyer, Robert Glasper Experiment, Flying Lotus, Jeff Parker, Esperanza Spalding, Shabaka Hutchings, Moses Boyd, Lionel Loueke... and Mary Halvorson... (and many more)
46-size / 440 pages
■Table of Contents
Introduction 1 Regime Change 2 From This Moment On 3 Uptown, Downtown 4 Playing the Mountain 5 The New Elders 6 Gangsterism Looped 7 Learning Jazz 8 Infiltrate and Raid 9 The Same, But It Changes
10 Exposure
11 Crossroads
12 Styles Battle Postscript *154 Must-listen Albums of the 21st Century (Up to the Present Time in 2024)
[Author profile]
NATE CHINEN
Nate Chinen has been writing about jazz for more than 20 years. A 13-time recipient of the Jazz Journalists Association's Helen Dance–Robert Palmer Award for Excellence in Writing, he covered music for The New York Times for 12 years and was a long-running columnist for Jazz Times. In 2017, he became WBGO's editorial director, directing the station's online coverage while helping to develop a wide range of jazz programming for NPR Music. He co-authored Myself Among Others: A Life in Music (2003), a biography of jazz impresario George Ween, and his writing has been included in Best Music Writing 2011, edited by music critic Alex Ross. He lives in Beacon, New York, with his wife and two daughters.
[Translator profile]
Mariko Sakamoto
Born in Tokyo in 1970. Graduated from the Film Department of Nihon University College of Art. Works as a writer, interpreter, and translator. Lives in London. Her translations include Cosey Fanni Tutti's Art Sex Music: The Autobiography of Cosey Fanni Tutti, John Savage's The Burning Light, the Sun, and Everything Else: Joy Division The Oral History, Matthew Collin's Rave Culture: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House, Jen Perry's The Raincoats: The Quiet Post-Punk Revolution of Ordinary Women, Hannah Ross's Bicycles and the Century of Women, Mark Fisher's K-PUNK: The Method of Dreaming: Books, Films, and Dramas and K-PUNK: Choose Your Weapon: Music and Politics, and many others.
