Publisher's Synopsis
This groundbreaking study is already one of the most talked about books on jazz. Featuring an exhaustive discography by Jon Newey, Jazz-Rock: A History is required reading for music fans of all ages and allegiance.
Nicholson's lively text marks Miles Davis' Bitches Brew as the pivotal album that defined the genre and that soon after its release, every player, and every jazz record company, was jumping aboard a fast-accelerating bandwagon that led to commercial excess eventually undoing jazz-rock's early promise. Finally, Nicholson shows how such commercialism is far removed from today's avant-garde exponents of a mutated version of jazz-rock, such as John Zorn, Bill Frisell and John Schofield.
