Article: Blue: The Murder of Jazz. 1997. St. Martin's Press, New York, NY. 262 pp.(Review)

Nisenson, Eric. Blue: The Murder of Jazz. 1997. St. Martin's Press, New York, NY. 262 pp.

An interesting complement to Norman Lebrecht's Who Killed Classical Music?, Eric Nisenson's Blue: The Murder of Jazz not only focuses on a different musical genre, but it also comes at its subject from a different from a different perspective. While Lebrecht examines the problems in classical music in terms of the music business, Nisenson is more interested in what he takes to be a crisis in jazz as musical form. For Nisenson, jazz has lost its vitality, and is being choked to death by artists who are not moving the music forward, but rather stifling it and slowly choking it ...

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