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<p><P><b>&#8220;<i>The Jazz Ear</i> will be a permanent part of learning how to listen inside the musicians playing.&#8221;&#8212;Nat Hentoff, <i>Jazz Times</i></b><P>Jazz is conducted almost wordlessly&#58; John Coltrane rarely told his quartet what to do, and Miles Davis famously gave his group only the barest instructions before recording his masterpiece <i>Kind of Blue</i>. Musicians often avoid discussing their craft for fear of destroying its improvisational essence, rendering jazz among the most ephemeral and least transparent of the performing arts.<P>In <i>The Jazz Ear</i>, acclaimed music critic Ben Ratliff discusses with jazz greats the recordings that most influenced them and skillfully coaxes out a profound understanding of the men and women themselves, the context of their work, and how jazz&#8212;from horn blare to drum riff&#8212;is conceptualized. Ratliff speaks with Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, Branford Marsalis, Dianne Reeves, Wayne Shorter, Joshua Redman, and others about the subtle variations in generation and attitude that define their music.<P>Playful and keenly insightful, <i>The Jazz Ear</i> is a revelatory exploration of a unique way of making and heari

Author

Ben Ratliff

Publisher

St. Martin's Griffin

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780805090864

Subjects

Music, Literary Fiction, Arts

Rating

3.93 / 5 (188 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14