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17
. Arthur Taylor,
Notes and Tones: Musician-to-Musician Interviews
(New York: Perigee, 1982), p. 112, originally printed in Belgium in 1977.

18
. From the liner notes to Wayne Shorter,
Speak No Evil
(Blue Note 46509).

19
. Ira Gitler, “Focus on Freddie Hubbard,”
Downbeat
, January 18, 1962, p. 22.

20
. Quoted in Michael Ullman,
Jazz Lives
(Washington, DC: New Republic Books, 1980), p. 82.

21
. James Lincoln Collier,
The Making of Jazz: A Comprehensive History
(New York: Houghton-Mifflin, 1978), p. 453; Baraka’s quotes from LeRoi Jones,
Blues People
(New York: William Morrow, 1963), pp. 223, 217.

22
. Davis and Troupe,
Miles: The Autobiography
, p. 86.

CHAPTER 8: FREEDOM AND FUSION

1
. LeRoi Jones,
Blues People
(New York: William Morrow, 1963), p. 235; Frank Kofsky,
Black Nationalism and the Revolution in Music
(New York: Pantheon, 1970), p. 131; Ekkehard Jost,
Free Jazz
(Graz, Austria: Universal Edition, 1974), p. 9.

2
. Joe Goldberg,
Jazz Masters of the ’50s
(New York: Macmillan, 1965), p. 231.

3
. Valerie Wilmer,
As Serious as Your Life
, rev. ed. (Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill, 1980), p. 68. It is worth noting that the bandleader in question, Pee Wee Crayton, later denied asking Coleman not to play on gigs.

4
. Quoted in Nat Hentoff’s liner notes to Coleman’s
Tomorrow Is the Question
(Contemporary 7569).

5
. Ted Gioia,
West Coast Jazz
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), p. 353.

6
. From liner notes to Ornette Coleman,
Skies of America
(Columbia 31562).

7
. Quoted in A. B. Spellman,
Black Music: Four Lives
(New York: Schocken, 1970), originally published as
Four Lives in the Bebop Business
(New York: Pantheon, 1966), p. 49.

8
. From Nat Hentoff’s accompanying essay to
The Complete Candid Recordings of Cecil Taylor and Buell Neidlinger
(Mosaic MD4-127).

9
. Spellman,
Black Music: Four Lives
, p. 53.

10
. From Buell Neidlinger’s liner notes to
The Complete Candid Recordings of Cecil Taylor and Buell Neidlinger
(Mosaic MD4-127).

11
. Spellman,
Black Music: Four Lives
, p. 75.

12
. Jacques Attali,
Noise: The Political Economy of Music
, trans. Brian Massumi (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1985), p. 25.

13
. John Litweiler,
The Freedom Principle: Jazz after 1958
(New York: William Morrow, 1984), p. 299; David G. Such,
Avant-Garde Jazz Musicians: Performing Out There
(Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1993), p. 161.

14
. Joachim Berendt,
The Jazz Book: From New Orleans to Rock and Free Jazz
, trans. Dan Morgenstern (New York: Lawrence Hill, 1975), p. 399.

15
. This quote from part 15 (of nineteen installments) of Marc Myers’s extensive interview with Creed Taylor, published on April 27, 2009, on the JazzWax blog (www.jazzwax. com/2009/04/interview-creed-taylor-part-15.html).

CHAPTER 9: TRADITIONALISTS AND POSTMODERNISTS

1
. Wynton Marsalis quote from the liner notes to
The Majesty of the Blues
(Columbia CK 45091).

2
. Francis Davis,
In the Moment: Jazz in the 1980s
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), p. 32; quote on Miles Davis from Hollie West, “Wynton Marsalis: Blowing His Own Horn, Speaking His Own Mind,”
Jazz Times
, July 1983, p. 10.

3
. George Lewis,
A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental
Music
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), p. 37.

4
. Ibid., p. 116.

5
. Quoted in Greg Tate, “Grooves of Academe,”
Village Voice Literary Supplement
, November 1989, p. 26.

6
. Quoted in Davis,
In the Moment
, p. 42.

CHAPTER 10: JAZZ IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM

1
. Brad Mehldau quote from his liner notes to
Art of the Trio 4: Back at the Vanguard
(Warner 4763).

2
. Stuart Nicholson, “Jazz in a Global Village,” presentation at the Association Européenne des Conservatoires, Académies de Musique et Musikhochschulen meeting in Amsterdam, February 13, 2009.

Further Reading

Balliett, Whitney.
American Musicians: 56 Portraits in Jazz
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Basie, Count, and Albert Murray.
Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie
. New York: Random House, 1986.
Bechet, Sidney.
Treat It Gentle: An Autobiography
. London: Cassell & Co., 1960.
Berlin, Edward A.
King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Blesh, Rudi, and Harriet Janis.
They All Played Ragtime
. New York: Knopf, 1950.
Brothers, Thomas.
Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans
. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006.
Charters, Samuel.
A Trumpet Around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz
. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2008.
Chernoff, John Miller.
African Rhythm and African Sensibility
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.
Chilton, John.
The Song of the Hawk: The Life and Recordings of Coleman Hawkins
. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990.
Cohen, Harvey G.
Duke Ellington’s America
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Collier, James Lincoln.
Benny Goodman and the Swing Era
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
———.
Jazz: The American Theme Song
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Crouch, Stanley.
Considering Genius: Writings on Jazz
. New York: Basic Books, 2006.
Dahl, Linda.
Stormy Weather: The Music and Lives of a Century of Jazzwomen
. New York: Pantheon, 1984.
Davis, Francis.
The History of the Blues
. New York: Hyperion, 1995.
———.
In the Moment
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Davis, Miles, and Quincy Troupe.
Miles: The Autobiography
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989.
DeVeaux, Scott.
The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
Ellington, Duke.
Music Is My Mistress
. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1973.
Firestone, Ross.
Swing, Swing, Swing: The Life and Times of Benny Goodman
. New York: W.W. Norton, 1993.
Friedwald, Will.
Jazz Singing
. New York: Scribner’s, 1990.
Giddins, Gary.
Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parke
r. New York: William Morrow, 1987.
———.
Rhythm-a-ning
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
———.
Riding on a Blue Note
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.
———.
Satchmo
. New York: Doubleday, 1988.
———.
Visions of Jazz: The First Century
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Giddins, Gary, and Scott DeVeaux.
Jazz
. New York: W.W. Norton, 2009.
Gillespie, Dizzy, and Al Frazer.
To Be or Not … to Bop
. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1979.
Gioia, Ted.
Delta Blues
. New York: W.W. Norton, 2008.
———.
The Imperfect Art: Reflections on Jazz and Modern Culture
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
———.
West Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz in California, 1945–1960
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Gitler, Ira.
Jazz Masters of the Forties
. New York: Macmillan, 1966.
———.
Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Gourse, Leslie.
Louis’ Children: American Jazz Singers
. New York: William Morrow, 1984.
Gridley, Mark.
Jazz Styles
, 10th ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2008.
Gushee, Lawrence.
Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Band
. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Hadlock, Richard.
Jazz Masters of the Twenties
. New York: Macmillan, 1965.
Hajdu, David.
Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn
. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1996.
Hasse, John Edward.
Beyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
———, ed.
Ragtime: Its History, Composers and Music
. New York: Schirmer, 1985.
Hentoff, Nat, and Nat Shapiro.
Hear Me Talkin’ to Ya: An Oral History of Jazz
. New York: Dover, 1966.
Hodeir, André.
Jazz: Its Evolution and Essence
. New York: Grove Press, 1956.
Kahn, Ashley.
The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records
. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006.
Kelley, Robin D. G.
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
. New York: Free Press, 2009.
Kirchner, Bill, ed.
The Oxford Companion to Jazz. New York
. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Korall, Burt.
Drummin’ Men: The Heartbeat of Jazz: The Bebop Years
. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
———.
Drummin’ Men: The Heartbeat of Jazz: The Swing Years
. New York: Schirmer, 1990.
Lees, Gene.
Leader of the Band: The Life of Woody Herman
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
———.
Meet Me at Jim and Andy’s: Jazz Musicians and Their World
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
———.
Waiting for Dizzy
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Lewis, George.
A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Litweiler, John.
The Freedom Principle: Jazz after 1958
. New York: William Morrow, 1984.
———.
Ornette Coleman: A Harmolodic Life
. New York: William Morrow, 1992.
Lomax, Alan.
The Land Where the Blues Began
. New York: Pantheon, 1993.
———.
Mister Jelly Roll
. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1950.
Mandel, Howard.
Future Jazz
. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Marquis, Donald.
In Search of Buddy Bolden, First Man of Jazz
. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978.
Mingus, Charles.
Beneath the Underdog
. New York: Knopf, 1971.
Morgenstern, Dan.
Living with Jazz
. Edited by Sheldon Meyer. New York: Pantheon, 2004.
Murray, Albert.
Stompin’ the Blues
. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976.
Nicholson, Stuart.
Ella Fitzgerald: A Biography of the First Lady of Jazz
. New York: Scribners, 1994.
———.
Jazz: The Modern Resurgence
. London: Simon & Schuster, 1990.
———.
Jazz-Rock: A History
. Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 1998.
Owens, Thomas.
Bebop: The Music and Its Players
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Pearson, Nathan W., Jr.
Goin’ to Kansas City
. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.
Pepper, Art, and Laurie Pepper.
Straight Life: The Story of Art Pepper
. New York: Schirmer, 1979.
Pettinger, Peter.
Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings
. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

Porter, Lewis.
John Coltrane: His Life and Music
. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999.

———, ed.
A Lester Young Reader
. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.
Ramsey, Frederick, Jr., and Charles Edward Smith.
Jazzmen
. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1939.
Ratliff, Ben.
Coltrane: The Story of a Sound
. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.

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