Description
Author: Tom Piazza
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Edition: First Edition
Publication Date: 1997
Place of Publication: New York
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket
Condition: Hardcover in Near Fine condition; Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket suitable for Brodart protection.
Description:
A sharp, authoritative collection of jazz criticism examining the music’s cultural crossroads in the late twentieth century. Tom Piazza brings together essays originally published in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Village Voice, and other major venues, tracing jazz’s evolution as it moved from rebellious innovation to established art form.
Rather than nostalgia, Piazza offers clear-eyed insight into the aesthetic, commercial, and generational tensions shaping modern jazz. Thoughtful, informed, and deeply engaged, Blues Up and Down captures jazz not as a museum piece, but as a living tradition wrestling with its own history.
An essential volume for jazz listeners, music historians, and readers interested in American cultural criticism.