Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation

by Paul F. Berliner

Book Overview

A landmark in jazz studies, Thinking in Jazz reveals as never before how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. Chronicling leading musicians from their first encounters with jazz to the development of a unique improvisatory voice, Paul Berliner documents the lifetime of preparation that lies behind the skilled improviser's every idea.

The product of more than fifteen years of immersion in the jazz world,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226043819
• ISBN13: 9780226043814
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 904 Pages
• Weight: 2.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"