In People Get Ready,
musicians, scholars, and journalists write about jazz since 1965, the
year that Curtis Mayfield composed the famous civil rights anthem that
gives this collection its title. The contributors emphasize how the
political consciousness that infused jazz in the 1960s and early 1970s
has informed jazz in the years since then. They bring nuance to
historical accounts of the avant-garde, the New Thing, Free Jazz,
"non-idiomatic" improvisation, fusion, and other forms of jazz that have
flourished since the 1960s, and they reveal the contemporary relevance
of those musical practices. Many of the participants in the jazz scenes
discussed are still active performers. A photographic essay captures
some of them in candid moments before performances. Other pieces revise
standard accounts of well-known jazz figures, such as Duke Ellington,
and lesser-known musicians, including Jeanne Lee; delve into how money,
class, space, and economics affect the performance of experimental
music; and take up the question of how digital technology influences
improvisation. People Get Ready
offers a vision for the future of jazz based on an appreciation of the
complexity of its past and the abundance of innovation in the present.
Contributors. Tamar Barzel, John Brackett, Douglas Ewart, Ajay Heble, Vijay Iyer, Thomas King, Tracy McMullen, Paul D. Miller/DJ Spooky, Nicole Mitchell, Roscoe Mitchell, Famoudou Don Moye, Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Eric Porter, Marc Ribot, Matana Roberts, Jaribu Shahid, Julie Dawn Smith, Wadada Leo Smith, Alan Stanbridge, John Szwed, Greg Tate, Scott Thomson, Rob Wallace, Ellen Waterman, Corey Wilkes
Contributors. Tamar Barzel, John Brackett, Douglas Ewart, Ajay Heble, Vijay Iyer, Thomas King, Tracy McMullen, Paul D. Miller/DJ Spooky, Nicole Mitchell, Roscoe Mitchell, Famoudou Don Moye, Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Eric Porter, Marc Ribot, Matana Roberts, Jaribu Shahid, Julie Dawn Smith, Wadada Leo Smith, Alan Stanbridge, John Szwed, Greg Tate, Scott Thomson, Rob Wallace, Ellen Waterman, Corey Wilkes
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