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What is Blue : the Murder of Jazz about?
Jazz, once a thriving body of innovative and fluid music, is being killed. Corruption via marketing, appropriation by the mainstream, superficial media portrayal, and sheer lack of artistry - all have contributed to the demise of this venerable art form. Do we have a new Thelonious Monk? How about a modern-day Jelly Roll Morton? Nisenson asks these questions and examines the dismal answers. He describes how the entire industry of jazz is being controlled by a select cadre that has a choke hold o
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It is typically read by artists, cooks, musicians and hobbyists working from how-to references.
Common subject areas: arts, cooking, music, crafts.
- Author
- Nisenson, Eric
- Publisher
- New York: St. Martin's Press
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780312167851
- Category
- music
- Subjects
- Music, History, Jazz
- Rating
- 3.5 / 5 (40 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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