Mats Gustafsson/Neneh Cherry/Joe McPhee/Thurston Moore & Byron Coley - Now Jazz Now: 100 Essential Free Jazz & Improvisation Recordings [1960-80] Mats Gustafsson/Neneh Cherry/Joe McPhee/Thurston Moore & Byron Coley
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• Sonic Youth front-man Thurston Moore announces new art book for record collectors.
• Preface by Neneh Cherry.
• Writing from Thurston Moore, Byron Coley, Mats Gustafsson.
• Afterword by Joe McPhee
• Cover photo by Philippe Gras.
• Soft-cover, fully illustrated | Size: 196 x 268 mm | Page count: 277
Compiling personal archives with discussions and debates of their selections of recordings which could be contenders within a list defined by a parameter of 100 most essential releases presented in chronologic order, acknowledging the music to be preternaturally non-competitive, non-hierarchical, and of equal value.
NOW JAZZ NOW is a book for all adventurous music lovers, whether ravenous record collectors, avant-garde jazz enthusiasts, students of radical culture, or simply curiosity seekers in wonder to this music’s illustrious history and lineage.
The gleanings of Cherry, Coley, Gustafsson, McPhee and Moore will enlighten, delight, amuse, and bemuse all who follow their streams of consciousness, knowledge, perception, and, most importantly, unbridled respect and regard for a genre of music dedicated to the dignity of practicing freedom.
AUTHOR BIOS:
Mats Gustafsson is an improviser, musician, composer and record collector aka “discoholic”.
His own work is influenced by noise, free jazz, and rock.
The artwork from this book comes from his collection and the selection process was curated in part by Gustafsson.
Neneh Cherry is a Swedish singer, songwriter, actor, occasional DJ, and author who recently published her memoirs A Thousand Threads about growing up daughter of West African percussionist Amadu Jah and artist Moki Cherry and being raised by her mother and her trumpeter stepfather Don Cherry.
Cherry penned an introductory text for this book.
Joe McPhee is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist who plays tenor, alto, and soprano saxophone, trumpet, the flugelhorn and valve trombone.
McPhee has contributed a poetic afterword musing on the expression free jazz.
Thurston Moore is a musician and composer.
His latest album Flow Critical Lucidity was a Rough Trade ‘Album of The Year’.
Moore recently published Sonic Life: A Memoir (Faber, UK / DoubleDay, US) about his band Sonic Youth.
Byron Coley is a collector and writer based in Western Massachusetts.
He turned a serious focus towards free jazz in the early '80s, when working at the Rhino Records store in Westwood, CA.
Under the stern tutelage of Jon Williams, Nels Cline, John Breckow and Richard Grossman, he was revelated.
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