Scarecrow Press
Pages: 250
Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-0-8108-5890-9 • Hardback • August 2007 • $158.00 • (£123.00)
978-0-8108-5945-6 • Paperback • August 2007 • $99.00 • (£76.00)
Edward Berger is associate director of the Institute of Jazz Studies. Henry Martin is professor of music at Rutgers University, Newark. Dan Morgenstern is director of the Institute of Jazz Studies. Evan Spring, a freelance writer, hosts a jazz radio program on WKCR in New York City. George Bassett studied music theory with James Randall, Milton Babbitt, and Claudio Spies at Princeton University.
Part 1 Preface
Part 2 "Wrong Together": Structures, Norms, and Standards
Part 3 Nonatonic Pregressions in the Music of John Coltrane
Part 4 Miles Davis's Improvised Solos in Recordings of "Walkin' "; 1954-67
Part 5 Bluesville: The Journey of Sonny Red
Part 6 BOOK REVIEWS
Part 7 Making Jazz French: Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris, by Jeffrey H. Jackson;Harlem in Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Story between the Great Wars, by William A. Shack
Part 8 The Uncrowned King of Swing: Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz, by Jeffrey Magee
Part 9 footprints:The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter, by Michelle Mercer
Part 10 Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties, by Scott Saul
Part 11 Bibliography of Jazz Articles in Nonjazz Journals (2003-2004)
Part 12 Books Received at the Institute of Jazz Studies
Part 13 About the Editors
Part 14 About the Contributors
Part 15 About the Institute of Jazz Studies
This issue of the Annual Review contains four studies, of saxophonist Sonny Red, a Steve Swallow composition, John Coltrane's compositional approach, and the Miles Davis tune "Walkin'" and his different recordings of the piece. Book reviews and the third installment of an ongoing bibliography project of jazz articles in nonjazz journals from 2003 to 2004 are provided.
— Reference and Research Book News, November 2007