scholarly journals Jazz em cisma

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Augusto Brandão
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Este trabalho parte da percepção de que a obra do pianista e compositor de jazz Thelonious Monk, para além de sua grande relevância musical, pode ser vista em uma dimensão canônica e simbólica que, através de suas composições, do seu jeito de fazer música e, também, de sua personalidade marcante que beira a excentricidade, Monk parece ter se tornado uma espécie de mito, um emblema capaz de influenciar e pautar as discussões ligadas ao jazz. Neste sentido, o objetivo deste trabalho é observar como este emblema parece, de certa forma, ser um elemento em disputa, uma espécie de capital simbólico usado para validar diversas correntes musicais, especialmente a vanguarda e o neoclassicismo, que parecem disputar uma certa hegemonia dentro do campo da musicologia do jazz. Muito desta discussão pode ser visto nas obra de autores como Daniel McClure (2006), David Ake (2002), que discutem a consolidação do cânone jazzístico e as disputas dentro deste campo, e Robin Kelley (1999), que discute como a obra e a imagem de Monk foram apropriadas por grupos, de ambos os lados, que tentavam consolidar uma tradição e uma narrativa sobre o que é o jazz. Além destes autores é conveniente trazer à discussão algumas percepções ligadas ao campo neoclássico a partir de textos como The Jazz Tradition (1993), escrito por Martin Williams, e os textos do trompetista Wynton Marsalis (2008). Por fim, através das gravações de releituras feitas das composições de Thelonious, será possível, sonoramente, observar como cada um destes campos se apropria deste repertório e quais discursos musicais eles tentam validar a partir dele.

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 381-402
Author(s):  
Ingrid Monson ◽  
John Gennari ◽  
Travis A. Jackson

Do not miss Robin D. G. Kelley's Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, for it will stand as the definitive biography of the great American composer and pianist for many years to come. What distinguishes Kelley's treatment of Monk's complicated and enigmatic life is the sheer depth and breadth of primary research, including, for the first time, the active cooperation and involvement of Thelonious Monk's family. In his acknowledgments, Kelley describes a long process of convincing Thelonious Monk, III to grant permission culminating in a six-hour meeting in which his knowledge, credentials, and commitment were thoroughly tested and challenged. Once he had secured “Toot's” blessings, as well as that of his wife Gale and brother-in-law Peter Grain, Kelley was introduced to Nellie Monk, Thelonious Monk's wife, and a wide range of family and friends who shared their memories and personal archives of photos, recordings, and papers. This is not an authorized biography, however, since Thelonious Monk, Jr. never demanded the right to see drafts or dictate the content. Rather Kelley was admonished to “dig deep and tell the truth.”


2021 ◽  
pp. 327-400
Author(s):  
Ted Gioia

In the post–World War II years, jazz started to split off into many different directions, spurring a fragmentation that expanded the creative range of the idiom but caused long-lasting divisions among artists and fans (the so-called jazz wars). The first fault lines emerged between traditional and modern jazz exponents, but during the 1950s and early 1960s, many different styles emerged—including cool jazz, hard bop, soul jazz, West Coast jazz, modal jazz, Third Stream jazz, and various experimental approaches. This chapter traces these stylistic developments, and their leading exponents. It looks at the life and work of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Stan Getz, Charles Mingus, and Bill Evans, among other major jazz stars of the era, and assesses key albums such as Kind of Blue, Mingus Ah Um, and Giant Steps.


2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-181
Author(s):  
Michael C. Heller
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Grand Street ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Robert Andrew Parker
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Author(s):  
Niel Scobie

In Music and Discourse, Jean-Jacques Nattiez theorizes that noise is not only subjective, its definition, and that of music itself, is culturally specific: “There is never a singular, culturally dominant conception of music; rather, we see a whole spectrum of conceptions, from those of the entire society to those of a single individual” (43). Noise in this context is therefore most often positioned as the result of music that runs contrary to an established set of rules. However subjective the assessments of both the musical producer and listener, Nattiez notes that these “‘criteria’ are always defined in relation to a threshold of acceptability encompassing bearable volume, the existence of fixed pitches, and a notion of order – which are only arbitrarily defined as norms” (45). If these criteria are arbitrary, then music might just as arbitrarily be redefined to valorize noise rather than eschew it, something true of Public Enemy and their musical aesthetic of noise. It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988) uses saxophone samples in many songs that act in tandem with the lyrics to form “an aggression against the code-structuring messages” (Attali 27) found in popular music conventions. Moreover, noise has been a part of the musical landscape for longer than we might think. Public Enemy’s examples are comparable to the use of dissonance in the music of jazz legends Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, and others. Public Enemy created noise with saxophone squeals, erratic drums, and countless scratches on Nation, a recording that has influenced numerous hip-hop artists and it stands today as a critically lauded and influential album. This paper investigates Public Enemy’s use of saxophone samples as a strategy of creating noise as representative of ideals contrary to conventional Western musical practices, and as a bridge to African-American musical practices and suppressed voices of the past.


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