Acknowledgments  ix

Introduction. "People Get Ready": The Future of Jazz is Now! / Ajay Heble and Rob Wallace  1

Part I. Beyond Categories: Histories and Mysteries  

1. "Now is the Time": Voicing against the Grain of Orality / Aldon Lynn Nielsen  31

2. The Antiquity of the Avant-Garde: A Meditation on a Comment by Duke Ellington / John Szwed  44

3. Listening Trust: The Everyday Politics of George Lewis's "Dream Team" / Julie Dawn Smith and Ellen Waterman  59

4. Jeanne Lee's Voice / Eric Porter  88

5. Kick Out the Jazz! / Rob Wallace  111

Part II. Crisis in New Music? Vanishing Venues and the Future of Experimentation  

6. Days of Breads and Roses / Marc Ribot  141

7. Subsidy, Advocacy, Theory: Experimental Music in the Academy, in New York City, and Beyond / Tamar Barzel  153

8. Subsidizing the Experimental Muse:Rereading Ribot / John Brackett  166

9. One Musician Writes about Creative-Music Venues in Toronto / Scott Thomson  175

10. Somewhere There: Contemporary Music, Performance Spaces, and Cultural Policy / Alan Stanbridge  184

Part III. Sound Check  

The Jazz Photography of Thomas King  197

Part IV. Get Ready: Jazz Futures  

11. Black Jazz in the Digital Age / Greg Tate  217

12. Improvising Digital Culture / DJ Spooky and Vijay Iyer  225

13. Ancient to the Future: Celebrating Forty Years of the AACM / Douglas Ewart, Nicole Mitchell, Roscoe Mitchell, Famoudou Don Moye, Matana Roberts, Jaribu Shahid, Wadada Leo Smith, and Corey Wilkes  244

14. People, Don't Get Ready: Improvisation, Democracy, and Hope / Tracy McMullen  265

Works Cited  281

Contributors  295

Index  301

Ajay Heble

Rob Wallace

Aldon Lynn Nielsen

John Szwed

Julie Dawn Smith

Eric Porter

Ellen Waterman

Marc Ribot

Tamar Barzel

John Brackett

Scott Thomson

Alan Stanbridge

Greg Tate

DJ Spooky

Vijay Iyer

Tracy McMullen

“This collection of thought-provoking essays is as much about inclusion, looking at jazz as a genre relevant to all, as it is futurism. Evolved from the Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium, the publication is like a breath of fresh air in the scholarship pertaining to the music, first and foremost because it looks at it from new angles, and, perhaps more importantly, provides a platform for artists who simply have not been lionised according to their full worth.”—Kevin L Gendre, Jazzwise

“This collection of thought-provoking essays is as much about inclusion, looking at jazz as a genre relevant to all, as it is futurism. Evolved from the Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium, the publication is like a breath of fresh air in the scholarship pertaining to the music, first and foremost because it looks at it from new angles, and, perhaps more importantly, provides a platform for artists who simply have not been lionised according to their full worth.”—Kevin L Gendre, Jazzwise

"If you thought jazz was dead, think again. As this remarkable collection of essays makes crystal clear, jazz is alive, loud, messy, sprawling, old and wise, born again, and playful. People Get Ready makes an essential contribution to jazz studies, cultural studies, and our increasingly global understanding of modern music. And it demonstrates what discerning readers and listeners already know: that 'hip' is both an adjective and a verb."—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original

"Reader Get Ready! This lovely collection blasts past pessimism and uncertainty to showcase the resonant vibrancy of jazz today. From history to technology and from improvisation to politics, People Get Ready constitutes mandatory reading for anyone with a serious interest in answering Marvin Gaye's perennial question—'What's Going On?'"—Daniel Widener, author of Black Arts West: Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles

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