Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia

The general popularity of jazz fluctuates as wildly as a poplar tree in a gale. Fortunately, both for this book and for musical taste worldwide, jazz currently is being listened to as much as it ever has been. It is doubtful, in a world mostly directed by marketing and sales people, whether the categorisation of music will ever be eliminated but the edges of each definition are being blurred in such a way that many people are listening to some form of jazz without knowing it. One only has to listen to some of the FM radio stations which aim...