Success, Failure, and Improvisation: Tactics of the Los Angeles Experimental Jazz Community

• Main Author: Kaplan, Aaron
• Other Authors: Wong, Deborah A
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2013
• Subjects: Music; Avante-garde; Community; Experimental; Improvisation; Jazz; Los Angeles; Gauthier; Blue whale
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9xt1885r

This study of avant-garde jazz and free improvisation in the greater Los Angeles region investigates the musical and social role of experimentation. A major aim of this study is to reassess the criteria for the sustainability of an experimental music scene. Whereas economics are often invoked in the...