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<div>A landmark in jazz studies, <i>Thinking in Jazz</i> reveals as never before how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. Chronicling leading musicians from their first encounters with jazz to the development of a unique improvisatory voice, Paul Berliner documents the lifetime of preparation that lies behind the skilled improviser's every idea.<br> <br> The product of more than fifteen years of immersion in the jazz world, <i>Thinking in Jazz</i> combines participant observation with detailed musicological analysis, the author's experience as a jazz trumpeter, interpretations of published material by scholars and performers, and, above all, original data from interviews with more than fifty professional musicians: bassists George Duvivier and Rufus Reid; drummers Max Roach, Ronald Shannon Jackson, and Akira Tana; guitarist Emily Remler; pianists Tommy Flanagan and Barry Harris; saxophonists Lou Donaldson, Lee Konitz, and James Moody; trombonist Curtis Fuller; trumpeters Doc Cheatham, Art Farmer, Wynton Marsalis, and Red Rodney; vocalists Carmen Lundy and Vea Williams; and others. Together, the interviews provide insight into the production of jazz by

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Author

Berliner, Paul F.

Publisher

University of Chicago Press; University Of Chicago Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9787060504563

Category

music

Subjects

Music, History, Arts

Rating

4.23 / 5 (161 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14