Hobsbawm won't tell you what you should hear. He will tell you the players and the social context. Jazz is not self-explanatory. You have to read as well listen. --jks
>
>Gotta disagree here, to steal a quote 'Reading about music is like dancing
>about
>architecture'. Start with Miles in the Gil Evans period, then Kind of Blue,
>Coltrane with 'A Love Supreme', anything with Sonny Rollins, Ornette
>Coleman,
>Cecil Taylor or Charlie Haden and just listen. Read when you're done
>listening
>for what you want to hear, not what others tell you you should hear.
>
>PC
>
> >Martin Williams' Smithsonian Classic Jazz collection is a good >place to
> >start learning about this music, though it slights more recent->-60s and
> >after--jazz. For a good left history through the start of the >60s, see
>Eric
>
> >Hobsbawm's book on jazz. --jks
>
>
>N Paul Childs
>This address or <npchilds at hotmail.com>
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