Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II

A CHOICE 2018 Outstanding Academic Title In Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II , renowned scholar Gerhard Kubik extends and expands the epic exploration he began in Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I . This second volume amplifies how musicians influenced by swing, bebop, and post-bop in Africa from the end of World War II into the 1970s were interacting with each other and re-creating jazz. Much like the first volume, Kubik examines musicians who adopted a wide variety of jazz genres, from the jive and sw