" The Jazz Ear will be a permanent part of learning how to listen inside the musicians playing."--Nat Hentoff, Jazz Times Jazz is conducted almost wordlessly: John Coltrane rarely told his quartet what to do, and Miles Davis famously gave his group only the barest instructions before recording his masterpiece Kind of Blue .
Musicians often avoid discussing their craft for fear of destroying its improvisational essence, rendering Jazz among the most ephemeral. " The Jazz Ear will be a permanent part of learning how to listen inside the musicians playing."--Nat Hentoff, Jazz Times Jazz is conducted almost wordlessly: John Coltrane rarely told his quartet what to do, and Miles Davis famously gave his group only the barest instructions before recording his masterpiece Kind of Blue
