Introduction and Acknowledgements
1 The Quintet
2 Analytical Strategies
3 E.S.P.
4 Miles Smiles
5 Sorcerer
6 Nefertiti
7 Miles in the Sky and Filles de Kilimanjaro
8 The Quintet and Its Legacies
Discography
Bibliography
Index
Keith Waters is Associate Professor of Music Theory and Composition at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and author of Jazz: The First Hundred Years, co-authored with Henry Martin (Schirmer, 2001; Second edition 2006); Essential Jazz: The First Hundred Years, co-authored with Henry Martin (Schirmer, 2005; Second edition 2008); and, Rhythmic and Contrapuntal Structures in the Music of Arthur Honegger (Ashgate, 2002).
"A welcome addition to the growing number of scholarly publications
about jazz. While Waters approaches the topic multilaterally and
comprehensively, the scope of his study is remarkable, the
analytical tools innovative and penetrating, and the conclusions
reflecting points of view of a fine scholar with insightful
analytical prowess and a thorough understanding of extremely
challenging musical repertory...[A] monumental study."
--Association for Recorded
Sound Collections
"Session by session, composition by composition, what was once a
profound mystery destined for eternal analytical purgatory has been
freed...within this text are the keys to immediate and future
musicological discoveries and exciting individual artistic
developmental possibilities." --Bob Belden, composer and
producer
"A major book. For serious listeners, it's a gold mine of
information and analysis concerning one of the most important
musical ensembles of the 20th century." --Bill Kirchner, musician,
producer, historian, educator, and editor of The Oxford Companion
to Jazz
"Waters' writing is impeccably clear and avoids needless
jargon...This title is part of Oxford University Press' new series
of book-length discussions of classic jazz albums (another is Brian
Harker's Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings). In
this era of audio downloads, such serious studies that dig into the
significance of the records that have shaped our world are always
welcome." --Downbeat, Editor's Pick
"An excellent resource...Highly recommended." --Choice
"A detailed exploration of those recordings, with interviews,
musical analysis and critical
response for both the scholar and fan." --New York City Jazz
Record
"Advances the field of jazz analysis through its thporoughness and
analytical insight, applying creative approaches to explain music
that has often seemed structurally opaque and mysterious and that
has often been discussed only in superlatives. The study has few
counterparts for comparison and stands in a rather lonely position
in the world of contemporary jazz analysis." --Journal of Jazz
Studies
"Every music library should have a copy of Keith Waters' new book.
It goes beyond a
purely descriptive analysis of the workings of the great Miles
Davis Quintet of the mid-
1960s, providing technical analysis that includes in-depth notated
musical transcriptions
of solos and accompaniments...This is the first book-length account
devoted entirely to
unearthing the nitty gritty in this remarkable band's music. Bravo
for Waters!" --Mark C. Gridley, Notes
"Systematic and thorough, Waters not only reveals the richness and
complexity of the inner workings of the 1960s Davis quintet, he
also placing them in relationship to the music of their time and
explores their legacy to generations of jazz musicians to come
after them." --ARSC Journal
"A wonderful, always enlightening, and frequently brilliant
book...A landmark in the history
of jazz scholarship." --American Music
"A new seminal work in Davis scholarship." --American Music
Review
"Waters's text is masterful in its own right and provides the kind
of thorough grounding in musical specificity from which more
interdisciplinary studies can derive a firm foundation. I find this
text particularly compelling for its riff on the series' call for
'full context' in that it suggests 'that allowing for a plurality
of views about music acknowledges more richly the breadth of its
traditions' and insists on the author's freedom to answer the call
for
interdisciplinarity and attendant questions of breadth versus depth
as s/he sees fit."--Twentieth-Century Music
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