University of Tennessee
First Year Studies
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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
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References
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Musical Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice In Music by Derek Bailey, Prentice-Hall, INC. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1980.
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Tri-Axium Writings 1 By Anthony Braxton, Synthesis Music, 1985.
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Tri-Axium Writings 2 By Anthony Braxton, Synthesis Music, 1985.
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Tri-Axium Writings 3 By Anthony Braxton, Synthesis Music, 1985.
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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.
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Extended Play: Sounding Off from John Cage to Dr. Funkenstein by John Corbett, Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, 1994.
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Outside Music, Inside Voices: Dialogues on Improvisation and the Spirit of Creative Music by Garrison Fewell, Saturn University Press, Somerville, Massachusetts, 2014.
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The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz, Improvisation and Communities in Dialogue, edited by Daniel Fischlin and Ajay Heble, Wesleyan University Press, Middletown Connecticut, 2004.
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FMP Im Rückblick - In Retrospect by Ali Tercan & Jost Gebers et al., Free Music Production FMP-Publishing, Berlin, 2010, book+cdx12+box.
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Free Jazz by Ekkehard Jost, Da Capo Press, 1994 (orig. 1975).
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A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album by Ashley Kahn, Penguin Books, New York, 2003.
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Steve Lacy: Conversations edited by Jason Weiss, Duke University Press, 2006.
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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.
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Joëlle Léandre: Solo: Conversations with Franck Médioni Kadima Collective, Israel, 2011.
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A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music by George Lewis, University Of Chicago Press, 2009.
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Ornette Coleman: A Harmolodic Life by John Litweiler, William Morrow and Co., New York, 1992.
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Blocks of Consciousness and the Unbroken Continuum edited by Brian Marley and Mark Wastell, Sound 323, London, 2005.
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The Mandorla Letters by Nicole Mitchell Gantt, Green Lantern Press, Chicago, 2022.
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Straight Up, Without Wings: The Musical Flight of Joe McPhee by Joe McPhee as told to Mike Faloon, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, 2024.
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Perpetual Frontier/The Properties of Free Music by Joe Morris, Riti Publishing, 2012.
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Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice By Pauline Oliveros, iUniverse Inc, 2005.
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Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies, edited by Robert G. O'Meally, Brent Haye Edwards & Farah Jasmine Griffin, Columbia University Press, New York, 2004.
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The Heraclitean Two-Step, etc. by Evan Parker, False Walls, Faversham, Kent, 2024.
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Conversations by William Parker, RogueArt, Paris, France, 2011.
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Conversations II Dialogues & Monologues by William Parker, RogueArt, Paris, France, 2015.
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Conversations III by William Parker, RogueArt, Paris, France, 2019.
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Conversations IV by William Parker, RogueArt, Paris, France, 2023.
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Music and the Creative Spirit: Innovators in Jazz, Improvisation and the Avant Garde by Lloyd Peterson, Scarecrow Press, Lanham, MD, 2006.
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No Sound Is Innocent: AMM and the Practice of Self-Invention by Edwin Prévost, Copula, Matching Tye, Essex, 1995.
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Coltrane: The Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff, Picador Publishing, New York, 2008.
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Singularity Codex: Matthew Shipp on RogueArt by Clifford Allen, RogueArt, Paris, France, 2023.
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Notes (8 Pieces) Source A New World Music: Creative Music by Leo Smith, self-published, Chicago, IL, 1973.
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Message To Our Folks: The Art Ensemble of Chicago by Paul Steinbeck, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2017.
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Sound Experiments: The Music of the AACM by Paul Steinbeck, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2022.
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Coltrane: Chasin' the 'Trane by J.C. Thomas, Da Capo Press, Boston, 1976.
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Easily Slip Into Another World: A Life In Music by Henry Threadgill & Brent Hayes Edwards, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2023.
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Fred Van Hove at 80 edited by Koen Vandenhoudt & Michael Huon, Dropa Disc, Antwerp, 2019.
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Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation by Ben Watson, Verso, London, 2004.
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Ornette Coleman: His Life and Music by Peter Niklas Wilson, Berkeley Hills Books, Berkeley, California, 1999.
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Arcana: Musicians on Music edited by John Zorn, Granary Books/Hips Road, New York, 2000.
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Arcana II: Musicians on Music edited by John Zorn, Granary Books/Hips Road, New York, 2007.
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Arcana III: Musicians on Music edited by John Zorn, Granary Books/Hips Road, New York, 2008.
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Arcana IV: Musicians on Music edited by John Zorn, Granary Books/Hips Road, New York, 2009.
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Arcana V: Music, Magic and Mysticism edited by John Zorn, Granary Books/Hips Road, New York, 2010.
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Arcana VI: Musicians on Music edited by John Zorn, Granary Books/Hips Road, New York, 2012.
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Arcana VII: Musicians on Music edited by John Zorn, Granary Books/Hips Road, New York, 2014.
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Arcana VIII: Musicians on Music edited by John Zorn, Hips Road, New York, 2017.
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Arcana IX: Musicians on Music edited by John Zorn, Hips Road, New York, 2021.
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Arcana X: Musicians on Music edited by John Zorn, Hips Road, New York, 2021.
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Contact: Instructor
Link: Course Homepage
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