Unbound: Jazz Beyond Borders in a Global Age

By Abraham Ninan

UNBOUND: Jazz Beyond Borders in a Global Age

Jazz is conversation, flux, and freedom in motion - a force that refuses containment. Unbound traces its pulse from the first syncopations that challenged convention to the algorithmic improvisations and viral jams shaping the 21st century, revealing jazz as a living, ethical, and planetary art form. This is a fifteen-movement, cinematic, insurgent lyric sequence where manifesto collides with rigorous scholarship, and improvisation reaches toward speculative futures.

Through immersive vignettes, intimate musician portraits, and unprecedented explorations of digital improvisation, AI collaboration, and global networked pedagogy, Unbound asserts that jazz now exists everywhere and nowhere - a global commons, an infinite jam, a conversation spanning continents, generations, and species of thought. Every listener, player, and node in the network shapes its ongoing evolution.

From Armstrong and Baker to Glasper and algorithmic improvisers, this book illuminates the ethical, political, and aesthetic stakes of jazz in a way no previous scholarship has hybrid voices, borderless collectives, and planetary improvisation redefine how we understand music, community, and freedom.

Unbound is urgent, lyrical, and immersive - a manifesto, a hymn, and a living archive of jazz beyond borders. For musicians, scholars, and curious listeners alike, it is the definitive guide to jazz in the age of global improvisation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G5H417ZG
• ISBN13: 9798277674994
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"