Organizing this book into chapters that read like magazine profiles makes it more digestible for readers and allows them to read the chapters in whichever order they prefer. Goldberg’s book was structured that way, as was series editor Martin Williams’s similarly readable Jazz Masters of New Orleans (1967). More challenging was deciding which artists to include. I made a…
Addressing a wide range of improvised art and music forms—from jazz and cinema to dance and literature—this volume's contributors locate improvisation as a key site of mediation between the social and the aesthetic. As a catalyst for social experiment and political practice, improvisation aids in the creation, contestation, and codification of social realities and identities. Among other to…
Bheki Mseleku is an exceptional artist. e intention of this study is to focus on the exquisite detail of his art through the analysis of his compositions and improvisatory style. e author presumes the reader has a knowledge of the musical style of jazz as well as an interest in and an understanding of its theoretical practice.1As an author, one is always subject to c…