Jazzing: New York City's Unseen Scene

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CoverTitleContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologueIntroduction: The Unseen Scene
1. Listening to Jazz
2. Developing "Big Ears": Jazz Fans
3. Making the Scene: Fan Communities
4. Providing a Place and Time: Jazz Presenters
5. Jazz Jobbing: Music Professionals6 .Hear and Now: Collective Improvisation and Spiritual SynergyEpilogue: Making the ChangesAppendix: InterviewsNotesReferencesDiscographyIndex

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How do we speak about jazz? In this provocative study based on the author's deep immersion in the New York City jazz scene, Tom Greenland turns from the usual emphasis on artists and their music to focus on non-performing participants, describing them as active performers in their own right who witness and thus collaborate in a happening made one-of-a-kind by improvisation, mood, and moment. Jazzing shines a spotlight on the constituency of proprietors, booking agents, photographers, critics, publicists, painters, amateur musicians, fans, friends, and tourists that makes up New York City's contemporary jazz scene. Drawn from deep ethnographic research, interviews, and long term participant observation, Jazzing charts the ways New York's distinctive physical and social-cultural environment affects and is affected by jazz. Throughout, Greenland offers a passionate argument in favor of a radically inclusive conception of music-making, one in which individuals collectively improvise across social contexts to co-create community and musical meaning. An odyssey through the clubs and other performance spaces on and off the beaten track, Jazzing is an insider's view of a vibrant urban art world.

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Jazzing is a veritable whirlwind of congruent, conflicting and overlapping points of view. From Greenland's wide-angle vantage point . . . the listening to, presenting, writing about, photographing, creating visual art during performances, and promoting of live jazz is loaded with an array of complex social, economic and personal factors

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