Larry Kart
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300104202
- eISBN:
- 9780300128192
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300104202.003.0008
- Subject:
- Music, Theory, Analysis, Composition
This chapter focuses on musical pieces that revolve around the advent in 1980 of trumpeter/composer Wynton Marsalis and the several sorts of jazz neoconservatism or revivalism that he and his ...
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This chapter focuses on musical pieces that revolve around the advent in 1980 of trumpeter/composer Wynton Marsalis and the several sorts of jazz neoconservatism or revivalism that he and his associates proposed at that time: this meant a return to a kind of classicized version of the Miles Davis Quintet of the mid-1960s and a series of visits to chosen styles of the jazz past. The difference of the so-called Wyntonian era from the New Orleans Revival and Marsalis's arrival on the scene is that never before had a return to selected aspects of the jazz past been presented—and, to a remarkable degree, accepted—as an event of central aesthetic importance. A cut-and-paste, mix-and-match attitude toward the jazz past has been one result of this revisiting of jazz past.Less
This chapter focuses on musical pieces that revolve around the advent in 1980 of trumpeter/composer Wynton Marsalis and the several sorts of jazz neoconservatism or revivalism that he and his associates proposed at that time: this meant a return to a kind of classicized version of the Miles Davis Quintet of the mid-1960s and a series of visits to chosen styles of the jazz past. The difference of the so-called Wyntonian era from the New Orleans Revival and Marsalis's arrival on the scene is that never before had a return to selected aspects of the jazz past been presented—and, to a remarkable degree, accepted—as an event of central aesthetic importance. A cut-and-paste, mix-and-match attitude toward the jazz past has been one result of this revisiting of jazz past.
