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What, where, and when is jazz? To most of us jazz means small combos, made up mostly of men, performing improvisationally in urban club venues. But jazz has been through many changes in the decades since World War II, emerging in unexpected places and incorporating a wide range of new styles. In this engrossing new book, David Ake expands on the discussion he began in Jazz Cultures, lending his engaging, thoughtful, and stimulating perspective to post-1940's jazz. Ake investigates such issues as improvisational analysis, pedagogy, American exceptionalism, and sense of place in jazz. He uses provocative case studies to illustrate how some of the values ascribed to the postwar jazz culture are reflected in and fundamentally shaped by aspects of sound, location, and time.

Jazz --- Accordion and piano music (Jazz) --- Clarinet and piano music (Jazz) --- Cornet and piano music (Jazz) --- Double bass and piano music (Jazz) --- Jazz duets --- Jazz ensembles --- Jazz music --- Jazz nonets --- Jazz octets --- Jazz quartets --- Jazz quintets --- Jazz septets --- Jazz sextets --- Jazz trios --- Jive (Music) --- Saxophone and piano music (Jazz) --- Vibraphone and piano music (Jazz) --- Wind instrument and piano music (Jazz) --- Xylophone and piano music (Jazz) --- African Americans --- Music --- Third stream (Music) --- Washboard band music --- Social aspects. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Social aspects --- Coltrane, John --- Davis, Miles Dewey --- Jarrett, Keith --- Metheny, Pat[rick] --- Sex Mob (Jazz band) --- 20th century. --- american exceptionalism. --- artists. --- bebop. --- historical. --- improvisational music. --- jazz age. --- jazz culture. --- jazz historians. --- jazz music. --- jazz musicians. --- jazz scholars. --- jazz scholarship. --- jazz studies. --- jazz styles. --- jazz. --- music and culture. --- music historians. --- music history. --- music movements. --- music pedagogy. --- music venues. --- music. --- musicians. --- musicology. --- nonfiction. --- postwar america. --- retrospective. --- united states. --- urban clubs. --- world war ii. --- wwii.