Improvising: Sixteen Jazz Musicians and Their Art
- ISBN-10
- 0195021495
- ISBN-13
- 9780195021493
- Pages
- 263
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1977
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Whitney Balliett
Description
These essays, all of which originally appeared in the New Yorker, cover the entire range of jazz history. Presenting fascinating glimpses of musicians in their unguarded moments, it is concerned with analyzing that elusive and essential jazz quality, improvisation.
