Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"
Jazzing offers a rich and unique analysis of the social and musical lives of nonperforming participants in New York City's jazz scene(s). . . . Thomas Greenland tells a story of the vast and varied positions in a musical community that are not only necessary for, but constituent to, the community continuing to thrive." --
Jazz & Culture"Those who think deeply and seriously about the fate and direction of jazz, America's unique musical art-form, will find it interesting and rewarding." --
The Syncopated Times"A strikingly thoughtful book."--
Jazz Journal"A very readable and entertainingly written book."--
Jazzinstitut"A probing, fascinating, and sensitive portrait of a community of 'jazz people,' Tom Greenland's
Jazzing reminds us that jazz is not simply sound, but is a way of life that impacts us in profound and different ways."--Ken Prouty, author of
Knowing Jazz: Community, Pedagogy, and Canon in the Information Age"Written in a refreshing non-academic style . . .
Jazzing offers a valuable portrait of the ever-changing New York jazz scene."--
The New York City Jazz Record"
Jazzing is a veritable whirlwind of congruent, conflicting and overlapping points of view. From Greenland's wide-angle vantage point . . . the listening to, presenting, writing about, photographing, creating visual art during performances, and promoting of live jazz is loaded with an array of complex social, economic and personal factors."--
All About Jazz"Give[s] the audience - listeners, fans, and critics - alike a serious voice in the element of improvisation, which, in the case of jazz, is the key to its existence. . . . This book becomes well worth interacting with and becoming a part of the experience of its subject, i.e.
Jazzing."--
Jazz da Gama
