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2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. “Okwui Enwezor in Conversation with Jason Moran,” YouTube video, posted May 1, 2015, youtube.com/watch?v=1j23ZLzw7Rg.
5. Jason Moran, “A Return to Town Hall for Monk,” Guardian, May 15, 2008; accessed at theguardian.com.
6. Interview by Simon Rentner, The Checkout, WBGO 88.3 FM, wbgo.org/post/illuminating-cecil-taylor-pianist-jason-moran-checkout.
7. Moran, phone interview, March 17, 1999.
8. Gary Giddins, Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 513.
9. Moran, personal interview, June 2003.
10. Ibid.
11. Fred Kaplan, “This Kennedy Center Director Is Making Performance Art out of Jazz. Can He Bring Fans Along?” Washington Post Magazine, November 2, 2017; retrieved from washingtonpost.com.
7 LEARNING JAZZ
1. Martin Williams, “A Letter from Lenox, Mass,” The Jazz Review 2, no. 9 (October 1959), p. 31.
2. Burton, personal interview, July 27, 2013.
3. Metheny, quoted in Barry Kernfeld, The Story of Fake Books: Bootlegging Songs to Musicians (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2006), p. 138.
4. J. Aebersold, “NEA Jazz Masters: Interview with Jamey Aebersold,” published January 7, 2014, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F9CHF41Apo.
5. Joey Alexander, personal interview, May 13, 2016.
6. Mulherkar, personal interview, April 16, 2010.
7. Miles Davis, with Quincy Troupe, Miles: The Autobiography (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990), p. 52.
8. Clark Terry, with Gwen Terry, Clark: The Autobiography of Clark Terry (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011), p. 1.
9. Kevin Sun, “Every Single Tree in the Forest: Mark Turner as Seen by His Peers, Part One,” Music & Literature, July 21, 2015; retrieved from musicandliterature.org.
10. “Seventeen Ways of Looking at Mark Turner: Kurt Rosenwinkel,” Music & Literature no. 8, p. 290.
11. “Seventeen Ways of Looking at Mark Turner: Melissa Aldana,” Music & Literature no. 8, p. 245.
12. Pierce, personal interview, October 20, 2006.
13. Ibid.
14. Iyer, phone interview, July 12, 2012.
8 INFILTRATE AND AMBUSH
1. Morris, personal interview, June 11, 2017.
2. Urvija Banerji, “American Pianist-Composer Vijay Iyer: ‘Critics Are Really Bad at Listening,’ ” Rolling Stone India, May 15, 2017; retrieved from rollingstoneindia.com.
3. Iyer, personal interview, January 16, 2014.
4. Vijay Iyer, “Microstructures of Feel, Macrostructures of Sound: Embodied Cognition in West African and African-American Musics,” doctoral dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1998; retrieved from vijay-iyer.com/writings.
5. Nathaniel Mackey, “Other: From Noun to Verb,” Representations no. 39 (summer 1992), p. 51.
6. Coleman, phone interview, February 28, 2005.
7. Iyer, personal interview, February 12, 2005.
8. Iyer, personal interview, January 16, 2014.
9. Iyer, personal interview, February 12, 2005.
10. Iyer, personal interview, June 9, 2017.
11. Fred Moten, In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003).
9 CHANGING SAMES
1. Elevado, quoted in Chris Williams, “The Soulquarians at Electric Lady: An Oral History,” Red Bull Music Academy Daily, June 1, 2015.
2. Elevado, phone interview, 2003.
3. LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), “The Changing Same (R&B and New Black Music),” Black Music (New York: William Morrow, 1967).
4. Jayson Greene, “Waiting for D’Angelo,” Red Bull Music Academy Daily, April 28, 2014.
5. Nelson George, “A Conversation with D’Angelo,” transcript of interview at Brooklyn Museum, May 21, 2014, redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/dangelo.
6. Jason King, “The Time Is Out of Joint: Notes on D’Angelo’s Voodoo,” liner notes for reissue of Voodoo (Light in the Attic Records, 2012).
7. Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, with Ben Greenman, Mo’ Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2013), p. 160.
8. Hargrove, personal interview, February 27, 2003.
9. Glasper, personal interview, December 21, 2011.
10. Glasper, personal interview, May 22, 2005.
11. Glasper, personal interview, December 21, 2011.
12. Ibid.
13. Glasper, personal interview, September 23, 2013.
14. Hunter, personal interview, January 28, 2016.
15. League, personal interview, January 28, 2016.
16. Ibid.
17. Visconti, phone interview, December 30, 2015.
18. Steven Ellison (Flying Lotus), phone interview, September 30, 2014.
19. Riggins, phone interview, September 14, 2012.
10 EXPOSURES
1. “Esperanza Spalding Accepting the Grammy for Best New Artist at the 53rd Grammy Awards,” February 13, 2011, YouTube video, youtube.com/watch?v=_XgkH8_A7vc.
2. Lovano, phone interview, February 27, 2012.
3. Carrington, phone interview, February 29, 2012.
4. Spalding, personal interview, February 6, 2012.
5. Jon Batiste, personal interview, August 1, 2015.
6. Christian Scott, personal interview, March 3, 2010.
7. Ibid.
8. Spalding, phone interview, March 2, 2012.
9. Allen, phone interview, February 28, 2012.
10. E. Spalding, “Jazz and Gender: Challenging Inequality and Forging a New Legacy,” panel discussion, January 25, 2018, New York City.
11 THE CROSSROADS
1. Hancock, quoted in Larry Rohter, “Where Nations Debate, Harmony of a Jazz Kind,” New York Times, April 29, 2002; retrieved from nytimes.com.
2. Philip V. Bohlman and Goffredo Plastino, Jazz Worlds/World Jazz (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016), p. 5.
3. Hancock, personal interview, April 30, 2017.
4. Remarks delivered by President Barack Obama at the White House Jazz Festival, April 29, 2016; retrieved from obamawhitehouse.archives.gov.
5. Felix Belair Jr., “United States Has Secret Sonic Weapon—Jazz,” New York Times, November 6, 1955; retrieved from nytimes.com.
6. Penny Von Eschen, Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004), p. 31.
7. Ibid., p. 4.
8. Randy Weston, with Willard Jenkins, African Rhythms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010), p. 171.
9. Stańko, personal interview, October 17, 2006.
10. Bensusan, personal interview, September 13, 2016.
11. Bu, personal interview, September 13, 2016.
12. Adiel Portugali, “On the Marginality of Contemporary Jazz in China: The Case of Beijing,” in Bruce Johnson (ed.), Jazz and Totalitarianism, Transnational Studies in Jazz (New York and London: Routledge, 2017), p. 334.
13. Xia, personal interview, September 10, 2016.
14. Liu, personal interview, September 11, 2016.
15. Roberts, personal interview, September 15, 2016.
16. Vanacore, personal interview, September 14, 2016.
17. Roberts, personal interview, September 15, 2016.
18. Hsieh, personal interview, September 10, 2016.
19. Stuart Nicholson, Jazz and Culture in a Global Age (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2014), p. 108.
20. Stuart Nicholson, Is Jazz Dead? (Or Has It Moved to a New Add
ress) (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2005).
21. Loueke, personal interview, January 22, 2008.
22. Zenón, phone interview, January 25, 2017.
23. Maalouf, phone interview, September 5, 2016.
12 STYLE AGAINST STYLE
1. Halvorson, personal interview, October 8, 2008.
2. Ibid.
3. Smith, phone interview, October 24, 2008.
4. Bynum, e-mail correspondence, October 26, 2008.
5. Halvorson, personal interview, October 8, 2008.
6. Ibid.
7. Evans, personal interview, November 9, 2016.
8. Jarrett, personal interview, October 26, 2016.
9. Halvorson, personal interview, October 8, 2008.
10. Halvorson, personal interview, October 22, 2016.
11. Bynum, e-mail correspondence, October 26, 2008.
12. Formanek, phone interview, October 24, 2016.
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Nate Chinen has been writing about jazz for more than twenty years. An eleven-time winner of the Helen Dance–Robert Palmer Award for Excellence in Writing, presented by the Jazz Journalists Association, he spent a dozen years covering the music for The New York Times, and wrote a long-running column for JazzTimes. He became the director of editorial content at WBGO in 2017, overseeing digital coverage and contributing a range of jazz programming to NPR Music. He coauthored Myself Among Others: A Life in Music, the 2003 autobiography of jazz impresario George Wein, and his work has appeared in Best Music Writing 2011, selected by Alex Ross. He lives in Beacon, New York, with his wife and two daughters.
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