Jazz in search of itself - Kart, Larry (Yale University Press, 2004)
Introduction: Enactment in Sound -- Notes and Memories of the New Music, 1969 -- A Way of Living -- The Generators -- Moderns and After -- Miles Davis -- Tristano-ites -- The Neo-Con Game -- Singers and Songmakers -- Alone Together
In this anthology of jazz criticism, Larry Kart casts a wide net, discussing nearly 70 major jazz figues & many key stylistic developments. Kart sees jazz as a perpetual narrative, in which musicians, their audiences & the evolving music itself are intimately intertwined