David Ake is Professor and Chair of the Department of Musicology at the Frost School of Music, University of Miami.

"Ake blends careful historical research with intelligent textual criticism and sophisticated cultural theory.... His critiques augment and enhance our understanding and appreciation of great artistry, but they do much more. This is new, imaginative, original, and generative work. There are very few people who can write about both music theory and social theory with such clarity, depth, and insight." - George Lipsitz, author of Dangerous Crossroads: Popular Music, Postmodernism and the Poetics of Place

• List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction One "Blue Horizon" Creole Culture and Early New Orleans Jazz Two Jazz Historiography and the Problem of Louis Jordan Three Regendering Jazz Ornette Coleman and the New York Scene in the Late 1950s Four Body and Soul Performing Deep Jazz Five Jazz 'Traning John Coltrane and the Conservatory Six Jazz Traditioning Setting Standards at Century's Close Notes Index

David Ake is Professor and Chair of the Department of Musicology at the Frost School of Music, University of Miami.

"Ake blends careful historical research with intelligent textual criticism and sophisticated cultural theory.... His critiques augment and enhance our understanding and appreciation of great artistry, but they do much more. This is new, imaginative, original, and generative work. There are very few people who can write about both music theory and social theory with such clarity, depth, and insight." - George Lipsitz, author of Dangerous Crossroads: Popular Music, Postmodernism and the Poetics of Place

• List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction One "Blue Horizon" Creole Culture and Early New Orleans Jazz Two Jazz Historiography and the Problem of Louis Jordan Three Regendering Jazz Ornette Coleman and the New York Scene in the Late 1950s Four Body and Soul Performing Deep Jazz Five Jazz 'Traning John Coltrane and the Conservatory Six Jazz Traditioning Setting Standards at Century's Close Notes Index

David Ake is Professor and Chair of the Department of Musicology at the Frost School of Music, University of Miami.

"Ake blends careful historical research with intelligent textual criticism and sophisticated cultural theory.... His critiques augment and enhance our understanding and appreciation of great artistry, but they do much more. This is new, imaginative, original, and generative work. There are very few people who can write about both music theory and social theory with such clarity, depth, and insight." - George Lipsitz, author of Dangerous Crossroads: Popular Music, Postmodernism and the Poetics of Place

• List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction One "Blue Horizon" Creole Culture and Early New Orleans Jazz Two Jazz Historiography and the Problem of Louis Jordan Three Regendering Jazz Ornette Coleman and the New York Scene in the Late 1950s Four Body and Soul Performing Deep Jazz Five Jazz 'Traning John Coltrane and the Conservatory Six Jazz Traditioning Setting Standards at Century's Close Notes Index