University of Tennessee
First Year Studies




The Golden Age of Non-Idiomatic (Free) Improvisation: Music like you've never heard it before.
First Year Studies
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Instructor:  Prof. David Keffer

References

 

Musical Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice In Music by Derek Bailey, Prentice-Hall, INC. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1980.
Tri-Axium Writings 1 By Anthony Braxton, Synthesis Music, 1985.
Tri-Axium Writings 2 By Anthony Braxton, Synthesis Music, 1985.
Tri-Axium Writings 3 By Anthony Braxton, Synthesis Music, 1985.
This Uncontainable Feeling of Freedom: Irène Schweizer — European Jazz and the Politics of Improvisation by Christian Broecking, translated by Jeb Bishop, Verein Freundinnen und Freunde von Irène Schweizer,Hochschule Luzern — Musik, and Broecking Verlag, Germany, 2021.
Extended Play: Sounding Off from John Cage to Dr. Funkenstein by John Corbett, Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, 1994.
Outside Music, Inside Voices: Dialogues on Improvisation and the Spirit of Creative Music by Garrison Fewell, Saturn University Press, Somerville, Massachusetts, 2014.
The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz, Improvisation and Communities in Dialogue, edited by Daniel Fischlin and Ajay Heble, Wesleyan University Press, Middletown Connecticut, 2004.
FMP Im Rückblick - In Retrospect by Ali Tercan & Jost Gebers et al., Free Music Production FMP-Publishing, Berlin, 2010, book+cdx12+box.
Free Jazz by Ekkehard Jost, Da Capo Press, 1994 (orig. 1975).
A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album by Ashley Kahn, Penguin Books, New York, 2003.
Steve Lacy: Conversations edited by Jason Weiss, Duke University Press, 2006.
Improvising Freely: The ABC's of an Experience by Lê Quan Ninh, (originally published in French, 2010), trans. Karen Houle, PS Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, 2014.
Joëlle Léandre: Solo: Conversations with Franck Médioni Kadima Collective, Israel, 2011.
A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music by George Lewis, University Of Chicago Press, 2009.
Ornette Coleman: A Harmolodic Life by John Litweiler, William Morrow and Co., New York, 1992.
Blocks of Consciousness and the Unbroken Continuum edited by Brian Marley and Mark Wastell, Sound 323, London, 2005.
Perpetual Frontier/The Properties of Free Music by Joe Morris, Riti Publishing, 2012.
Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice By Pauline Oliveros, iUniverse Inc, 2005.
Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies, edited by Robert G. O'Meally, Brent Haye Edwards & Farah Jasmine Griffin, Columbia University Press, New York, 2004.
The Mandorla Letters by Nicole Mitchell Gantt, Green Lantern Press, Chicago, 2022.
Conversations by William Parker, RogueArt, Paris, France, 2011.
Conversations II Dialogues & Monologues by William Parker, RogueArt, Paris, France, 2015.
Conversations III by William Parker, RogueArt, Paris, France, 2019.
Conversations IV by William Parker, RogueArt, Paris, France, 2023.
Music and the Creative Spirit: Innovators in Jazz, Improvisation and the Avant Garde by Lloyd Peterson, Scarecrow Press, Lanham, MD, 2006.
No Sound Is Innocent: AMM and the Practice of Self-Invention by Edwin Prévost, Copula, Matching Tye, Essex, 1995.
Coltrane: The Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff, Picador Publishing, New York, 2008.
Singularity Codex: Matthew Shipp on RogueArt by Clifford Allen, RogueArt, Paris, France, 2023.
Notes (8 Pieces) Source A New World Music: Creative Music by Leo Smith, self-published, Chicago, IL, 1973.
Message To Our Folks: The Art Ensemble of Chicago by Paul Steinbeck, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2017.
Sound Experiments: The Music of the AACM by Paul Steinbeck, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2022.
Coltrane: Chasin' the 'Trane by J.C. Thomas, Da Capo Press, Boston, 1976.
Easily Slip Into Another World: A Life In Music by Henry Threadgill & Brent Hayes Edwards, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2023.
Fred Van Hove at 80 edited by Koen Vandenhoudt & Michael Huon, Dropa Disc, Antwerp, 2019.
Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation by Ben Watson, Verso, London, 2004.
Ornette Coleman: His Life and Music by Peter Niklas Wilson, Berkeley Hills Books, Berkeley, California, 1999.
Arcana: Musicians on Music edited by John Zorn, Granary Books/Hips Road, New York, 2000.
Arcana II: Musicians on Music edited by John Zorn, Granary Books/Hips Road, New York, 2007.
Arcana III: Musicians on Music edited by John Zorn, Granary Books/Hips Road, New York, 2008.
Arcana IV: Musicians on Music edited by John Zorn, Granary Books/Hips Road, New York, 2009.
Arcana V: Music, Magic and Mysticism edited by John Zorn, Granary Books/Hips Road, New York, 2010.
Arcana VI: Musicians on Music edited by John Zorn, Granary Books/Hips Road, New York, 2012.
Arcana VII: Musicians on Music edited by John Zorn, Granary Books/Hips Road, New York, 2014.
Arcana VIII: Musicians on Music edited by John Zorn, Hips Road, New York, 2017.
Arcana IX: Musicians on Music edited by John Zorn, Hips Road, New York, 2021.
Arcana X: Musicians on Music edited by John Zorn, Hips Road, New York, 2021.
 
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