{"title":"Nate Chinen","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"playing-changes-book-nate-chinen-9781101870341","title":"Playing Changes","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom one of jazz's leading critics comes an invigorating, richly detailed portrait of the artists and events that have shaped the music of our time. Grounded in authority and brimming with style, here is the first book to take the measure of this exhilarating moment: a compelling argument for the resiliency of the art form and a rejoinder to any claims about its calcification or demise.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlaying changes, in jazz parlance, has long referred to an improviser's resourceful path through a chord progression. Nate Chinen's \u003ci\u003ePlaying Changes\u003c\/i\u003e boldly expands on the idea, highlighting a host of real changes--ideological, technological, theoretical, and practical--that jazz musicians have learned to navigate since the turn of the century. Chinen, who has chronicled this evolution firsthand throughout his journalistic career, vividly sets the backdrop, charting the origins of jazz historicism and the rise of an institutional framework for the music. He traces the influence of commercialized jazz education and reflects on the implications of a globalized jazz ecology. He unpacks the synergies between jazz and postmillennial hip-hop and R\u0026amp;B, illuminating an emergent rhythm signature for the music. And he shows how a new generation of shape-shifting elders, including Wayne Shorter and Henry Threadgill, have moved the aesthetic center of the music. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWoven throughout the book is a vibrant cast of characters--from the saxophonists Steve Coleman and Kamasi Washington to the pianists Jason Moran and Vijay Iyer to the bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding--who have exerted an important influence on the scene. This is an adaptive new music for a complex new reality, and \u003ci\u003ePlaying Changes\u003c\/i\u003e is the definitive guide.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49531300413713,"sku":"GOR011801505","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50167572365585,"sku":"CIN1101870346G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50324558807313,"sku":"CIN1101870346VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50780851437841,"sku":"GOR009260305","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1101870346.jpg?v=1750853998"},{"product_id":"playing-changes-book-nate-chinen-9781101873496","title":"Playing Changes","description":"\u003cb\u003eOne of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBillboard, JazzTimes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In jazz parlance, \"playing changes\" refers to an improviser's resourceful path through a chord progression. In this definitive guide to the jazz of our time, leading critic Nate Chinen boldly expands on that idea, taking us through the key changes, concepts, events, and people that have shaped jazz since the turn of the century--from Wayne Shorter and Henry Threadgill to Kamasi Washington and Esperanza Spalding; from the phrase \"America's classical music\" to an explosion of new ideas and approaches; from claims of jazz's demise to the living, breathing scene that exerts influence on mass culture, hip-hop, and R\u0026amp;B. Grounded in authority and brimming with style, packed with essential album lists and listening recommendations, \u003ci\u003ePlaying Changes\u003c\/i\u003e takes the measure of this exhilarating moment--and the shimmering possibilities to come.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50370615443729,"sku":"CIN1101873493G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51428706877713,"sku":"NIN9781101873496","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51490803187985,"sku":"GOR013238491","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1101873493.jpg?v=1751237467"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-nate-chinen.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}