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Creative Improvised Music
An International Bibliography of the Jazz Avant-Garde, 1959-Present

By John Gray

Price: $150.00
Binding: Cloth
ISBN: 9780984413485
656 pages
African Diaspora Press
Pub. Date: July 2019

SUBJECTS
Music Reference
Jazz Studies
American Studies
Black/Diaspora Studies

SERIES TITLE: Black Music Reference Series
SERIES NUMBER: 9

INTERVIEW
Free jazz research and guerrilla scholarship: an interview with John Gray
Pierre Crépon talks to author John Gray about amassing and processing the 12,000 references making up his jazz bibliographies Fire Music and Creative Improvised Music

REVIEWS
"...will serve researchers across disciplines and international audiences, enhancing the global narrative and body of scholarly works on...free jazz/improv...." --Notes (Music Library Association)

DESCRIPTION
For almost three decades Fire Music, the author's acclaimed 1991 bibliography, has been the standard reference work on the jazz avant-garde. Now, at long last, we have its companion. Creative Improvised Music picks up where that volume left off, focusing on the literature on American free jazz and European free improvisation published since the early 1990s, as well as older works and archival material not included in its predecessor. In this new iteration users will find information not only on the music's pioneers but also on hundreds of other improviser-composers, ensembles, and collectives which have emerged in recent years.

The current volume is organized into three easy to navigate sections--General Works; Regional Studies; and Biographical and Critical Studies--allowing users to quickly access the information they need. It also includes a detailed subject index which offers a key to all of the book's sections and another way to quickly pinpoint citations by topic, geographical location, personal name, and instrument.

Major Highlights include:

  • Comprehensiveness and currency. Offers more than 5500 annotated entries on print, digital and audio-visual materials published between 1991 and 2018.
  • Linguistic diversity. Covers works in English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish and Italian.
  • Increased coverage of European sources, many not indexed anywhere else.
  • In-depth indexing of key experimental music and jazz journals, both print and digital.
  • Broader examination of topics such as gender and race, politics and religion/spirituality and their influence in jazz since 1960.
  • Detailed coverage of local and regional scenes, particularly in the music's main North American and European hubs.
  • Exhaustive biographical section documenting the work of nearly 1000 improviser-composers, ensembles, and collectives along with a select number of record industry figures, jazz poets, and others. These range from icons such as John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman and Sun Ra to recent voices such as Mary Halvorson, Tyshawn Sorey and Taylor Ho Bynum.
An essential resource for all jazz researchers, educators and librarians.

PRAISE FOR THE PREVIOUS EDITION

"There are very few bibliographies in jazz studies as well organized as Fire Music. Musicians, researchers, jazz fans, and librarians will find it an important addition to their collections."--Notes (Music Library Association)

"...[John Gray's] Fire Music is simply the best source of information regarding so-called avant-garde jazz."--NJSO Journal

"...an extremely important resource for those interested in free jazz and improvised music."--Down Beat

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
I.   GENERAL WORKS
II.  REGIONAL STUDIES
         Argentina
         Australia
         Austria
         Brazil
         California
         Canada
         Connecticut
         Czech Republic
         Denmark
         Finland
         France
         Germany
            Free Music Production
         Great Britain
         Illinois
         Italy
         Japan
         Massachusetts
         Mexico
         Michigan
         Missouri
         Netherlands, The
         New York
            Knitting Factory
            Vision Festival
         Norway
         Pennsylvania
         Poland
         Portugal
         Russia
         Scotland
         South Africa
         Sweden
         Switzerland
         Texas
III. BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL STUDIES
Sources Consulted
Libraries and Archives
Appendix I: List of Individuals, Ensembles and Collectives by Instrument/Occupation
Appendix II: List of Individuals, Ensembles and Collectives by Country
Author Index
Subject Index

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JOHN GRAY is a veteran bibliographer specializing in the expressive culture of Africa and the African diaspora. His previous publications include Music of Sub-Saharan Africa, Hip-Hop Studies and more than a dozen other titles. His work Baila! A Bibliographic Guide to Afro-Latin Dance Musics from Mambo to Salsa, was the recipient of the 2015 Vincent H. Duckles Award (for best book-length bibliography or reference work published in 2013) from the Music Library Association.

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