[AMS-announce] ANNOUNCEMENT: Book publication, Hodson, Interaction, Improvisation, and interplay in Jazz

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Book Announcement:

Hodson, Robert. Interaction, Improvisation, and Interplay in Jazz. 
New York and London: Routledge, 2007.


Technical writings on jazz often focus on the improvised lines of a
soloist or their underlying harmonic progressions. Since 
improvisation has been long regarded as a soloist's art, it has also 
frequently been studied that way. In Interaction, Improvisation, and
Interplay in Jazz, Robert Hodson explores improvisation as a group 
activity, where players are simultaneously improvising through the 
interaction between rhythm, harmony and melody, and how this 
interaction generates a harmonic structure and form in performance. 
How are form and harmony negotiated as a group and, furthermore, how 
do players interact when the conventional ideas of either form or 
harmony are abandoned?

Interaction, Improvisation, and Interplay in Jazz explores the 
process of player interaction in jazz, and the role this interaction 
plays in creating improvised music. Featuring extensive, detailed 
transcriptions and analyses of improvised performances by groups led 
by Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, John 
Coltrane, and others, it will appeal to those interested in 
improvisation, jazz, music theory, and musical analysis.