Postbop Jazz in the 1960s C - Hardcover

by Waters (Author)

Postbop Jazz in the 196s shows innovations in postbop composition of the 196s at the hands of jazz composers such as Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, among others. The book develops analytical pathways through a number of compositions, many of them well-known jazz compositions.

Author Biography

Keith Waters is Professor of Music at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is author of the book The Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet 1965-68 (Oxford University Press), co-author of the jazz history textbook Jazz: The First Hundred Years, and a contributor to the recent edition of the Grove Dictionary of American Music. He has published numerous articles on jazz, particularly jazz in the 1960s. As a jazz pianist, he has recorded and performed throughout the United States, Europe, and in Russia, and appeared in concert with James Moody, Bobby Hutcherson, Eddie Harris, Chris Connor, and others.