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I agree with the first reviewer that the academic discourse around jazz gets very obscure, but I have to say that nothing is more obscure to the larger reading audience than musical notation and harmonic theory.
RC
23 April 2005
Requires a little patience
Nowadays a lot of books on jazz/improv are like this one, pitched at an academic audience in the cultural-studies area rather than engaging in serious musicology.
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I agree with the first reviewer that the academic discourse around jazz gets very obscure, but I have to say that nothing is more obscure to the larger reading audience than musical notation and harmonic theory.
Requires a little patience
Nowadays a lot of books on jazz/improv are like this one, pitched at an academic audience in the cultural-studies area rather than engaging in serious musicology.