A Life in Jazz - An Education in Integrity
Trash becomes treasure. Charlatans are celebrated as saviors. We find ourselves infecting most of the world with meaningless, vapid entertainment products and there is a general ‘lostness’ fogging the atmosphere. This is Wynton Marsalis’s disturbing diagnosis. What we clearly need, he fervently pleads, is a revolution in feeling, thought and vision – creative visions for a more harmonious planet. We can find them in jazz. By telling the tales of his father and great-aunt, and of jazz legends such as Armstrong, Blakey and Gillespie, Marsalis shows: musical education is also spiritual and moral education. Time to take that vision and education seriously. Time to understand jazz.
A Life in Jazz. An Education in Integrity is the thirteenth edition in the Nexus Library series. This hardbound and illustrated edition contains a version of Wynton Marsalis’ brilliant Nexus Lecture (from November 12, 2023), further elaborated and edited to perfection by Marsalis himself.
Book Details
| Publish Date | March 19th, 2024 |
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| Publisher | Nexus Institute |
| Language(s) | English |
| Pages | 88 |
| Dimensions | 4.8 x 7.8 x 0.2 inches |
| ISBN | 978-90-804857-0-9 |
Contents
- Rob Riemen Introduction. A Renaissance Man (pag. 11)
- Wynton Marsalis A Life in Jazz. An Education in Integrity (pag. 19)
