(Paperback - English - 9781520554235)
"If strong intellectual opponents asked me about jazz music, these would be some of my answers." According to Jazz Education Hall of Fame inductee Tom Smith, jazz music's intellectual properties are the sole reason it's unpopular. According to him, the great falsehood about jazz is that its direction is natural, while arguing that all music is susceptible to control, linked to societal concerns we all face. This Third Edition is written in an opinionated tone that is self-deprecating, poignant, auto-biographical, and occasionally funny. Smith eviscerates traditional cathedrals of jazz, from sociologists, to overreaching critics, righteous aficionados, dishonest ..