Jazz Matters

David Ake is Professor and Chair of the Department of Musicology at the Frost School of Music, University of Miami.

• List of Illustrations Introduction Part I. Sound and Time 1. Being (and Becoming) John Coltrane: Listening for Jazz "Subjectivity" 2. Musicology beyond the Score and the Performance: Making Sense of the Creak on Miles Davis's "Old Folks" 3. Sex Mob and the Carnivalesque in Postwar Jazz Part II. Place and Time 4. Race, Place, and Nostalgia after the Counterculture: Keith Jarrett and Pat Metheny on ECM 5. Rethinking Jazz Education 6. Negotiating National Identity among American Jazz Musicians in Paris Acknowledgments Appendix 1. Sample of American Jazz Musicians Born Since 1950 Who Studied Jazz at the College Level Appendix 2. Interview Locations and Dates Notes Index

"David Ake doesn't pretend to stand on a mountaintop and deliver the Truth about jazz. Instead, he takes a wider view, showing that the Truth is really a series of possibilities, each one exciting enough in itself to keep us enthralled by the music no matter how much we think we know." Blurt "Along comes a fresh, thoughtful, carefully reasoned book discussing topic that have not been done to death, and one realizes that there may be more left to say on this heavily analyzed musical genre...'Jazz Matters' is one such book." Generally Eclectic Review "Jazz Matters will surely benefit the jazz community at large as well as spark interest from interdisciplinary fields of study." -- Michael Donovan Ethnomusicology Forum "Tells new jazz stories while finding fresh truths in the old." -- Peter Kenagy, New England Conservatory of Music, Massachusetts College of Art and Design American Music