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Thinking in Jazz The Infinite Art of Improvisation

Paperback • 1994 • English • 1. edition

Thinking in Jazz The Infinite Art of Improvisation

By Paul F. Berliner

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About the book

A landmark in jazz studies, Thinking in Jazz reveals as never before how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. Chronicling leading musicians from their first encounters with jazz to the development of a unique improvisatory voice, Paul Berliner documents the lifetime of preparation that lies behind the skilled improviser's every idea. The product of more than fifteen years of immersion in the jazz world, Thinking in Jazz combines participant observation with detai...Show more

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Book details

ISBN

9780226043814

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published year

1994

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Thinking in Jazz The Infinite Art of Improvisation

Format

Paperback

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