Jazz: The 1980s Resurgence

By Stuart Nicholson

The 1980s Resurgence looks at all the major developments in jazz during a decade which proved to be hugely exciting for the jazz world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306806126
• ISBN13: 9780306806124
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Da Capo Pr
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

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Count me as one who quit on Jazz after Miles final return, and he playing pop. Include me among those who would assert JAZZ IS DEAD. In retrospect, I was right about one of my bold and highly shared points: most of fusion was not jazz and most of FM radio fusion was elevator or open mall muzac. So you cannot blame me. However, as this thickly detailed report demonstrates, jazz is seldom on the radio for long and jazz recordings only had a genuine honeymoon in the 1960s, corrupting any judgements thereafter. So it was not dead at all. But its life was in clubs and small concert settings. It got missed. That is why I gave this book five stars. I don't enjoy 1980s jazz, yet this writer kept me gripped, and educated me.