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The Battle of the Five Spot, Ornette Coleman and the New York Jazz Field
by David Lee
Binding: Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Mercury Press
List Price: USD $17.95
Weight: 35
Dimension: H: 0.75 x L: 8.5 x W: 0.48 inches
ISBN 10: 1551281236
ISBN 13: 9781551281230
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The Battle of the Five Spot is an engaging look at a milestone in jazz history. In 1959, when the Texas born saxophonist Ornette Coleman brought his quartet to New York's Five Spot Caf , the music spurred a stormy controversy, and a struggle between old and new styles of jazz that has never quite subsided. David Lee explores the debate around Coleman's innovation in terms of its relationships to social change and issues of power within arts communities, referring to such disparate sources as writer Norman Mailer (a Five Spot regular), composer Leonard Bernstein, (who leaped to his feet at the end of one Coleman set and declared that 'this is the greatest thing that has ever happened in jazz') and sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. The latter's theory of artistic 'fields,' in Lee's accomplished prose, becomes part of a unique, lively and deeply postmodern look at how and why the soft spoken Coleman's exciting new music changed the way jazz was played, listened to and talked about.

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