1st Edition

Jazz on the Line Improvisation in Practice

By Petter Frost Fadnes Copyright 2020
254 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

Jazz on the Line: Improvisation in Practice  presents an ethnographic reflection on improvisation as performance, examining how musicians think and act when negotiating improvisational frameworks. This multidisciplinary discussion—guided by a focus on recordings, composition, authenticity, and venues—explores the musical choices made by performers, emphasizing how these choices can be... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction to improvisational performativity / Chapter 2 Recording experience and the ‘natural’ death of improvised music / Chapter 3 Alexander von Schlippenbach and the question of tabula rasa / Chapter 4 Between the jazu kissa and the underground / Chapter 5 Cultural factories and the contemporary production line

Biography

Petter Frost Fadnes is a saxophone player and researcher based at the Faculty of Performing Arts, University of Stavanger, Norway.