Esta serie profundiza en la rica historia y evolución de la música jazz grabada. Examina meticulosamente a artistas cruciales, estilos innovadores e innovaciones significativas que han dado forma al género a lo largo del tiempo. Ofreciendo profundas perspectivas sobre las dimensiones tanto técnicas como artísticas de la grabación musical, sirve como un recurso invaluable para los entusiastas del jazz y los historiadores de la música por igual. La colección proporciona una exploración académica pero accesible del legado grabado del jazz.
The Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet , 1965-68 provides an important analytical study of the Miles Davis quintet studio recordings of 1965-68, including the albums E.S.P., Miles Smiles, Sorcerer, Nefertiti, Miles in the Sky, and Filles de Kilimanjaro. Using transcription and analysis, Keith Waters brings to light the compositional, improvisational, and collective achievements of the group.
In Keith Jarrett's The Koeln Concert, Peter Elsdon presents, for the first time, a detailed musical account of Keith Jarrett's best-selling The Koeln Concert. It explores the way in which Jarrett developed the format of the solo improvised concert, and looks at the subsequent reception of the record.
In Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings, Brian Harker strikes a unique balance between 1920s views of jazz and those of today. For the first time Armstrong's technical achievements are placed in a meaningful cultural context, yielding unexpected insights into these seminal documents of early jazz.