{"id":640,"date":"2012-06-13T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laurentqueyssi.fr\/site\/?p=640"},"modified":"2012-06-13T18:25:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T16:25:00","slug":"640","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/laurentqueyssi.fr\/site\/2012\/06\/13\/640\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>In 1959, when Whitney Balliett, the\u00a0<em>New Yorker<\/em>&#8216;s jazz critic, published a collection of his columns, he titled the book\u00a0<em>The Sound of Surprise<\/em>. The promise of the unexpected, wrote Balliett, was jazz&#8217;s most precious quality. In a year which went on to include the release of trumpeter\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.allaboutjazz.com\/php\/musician.php?id=6144\">Miles Davis<\/a>&#8216;\u00a0<em>Kind of Blue<\/em>\u00a0(Columbia), saxophonist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.allaboutjazz.com\/php\/musician.php?id=5851\">John Coltrane<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0<em>Giant Steps<\/em>(Atlantic), pianist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.allaboutjazz.com\/php\/musician.php?id=5391\">Dave Brubeck<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0<em>Time Out<\/em>\u00a0(Columbia) and saxophonist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.allaboutjazz.com\/php\/musician.php?id=5818\">Ornette Coleman<\/a>&#8216;s<em>The Shape of Jazz to Come<\/em>\u00a0(Atlantic), you could say Balliett was stating the obvious.<\/div>\n<div>Five decades on, surprises in jazz are harder to find; great swathes of the music are locked in replication, the endless rehashing of past glories. And five decades after Balliett&#8217;s book, the DNA of the musicians has changed, too; college courses churn out alumni for whom jazz is more a career than a calling. There is nothing wrong with the preservation of repertory or the acquisition of technical excellence, but without passion, and an engagement with the wider world, no music will prosper.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1959, when Whitney Balliett, the\u00a0New Yorker&#8216;s jazz critic, published a collection of his columns, he titled the book\u00a0The Sound of Surprise. The promise of the unexpected, wrote Balliett, was jazz&#8217;s most precious quality. In a year which went on to include the release of trumpeter\u00a0Miles Davis&#8216;\u00a0Kind of Blue\u00a0(Columbia), saxophonist\u00a0John Coltrane&#8216;s\u00a0Giant Steps(Atlantic), pianist\u00a0Dave Brubeck&#8216;s\u00a0Time Out\u00a0(Columbia) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/laurentqueyssi.fr\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/laurentqueyssi.fr\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/laurentqueyssi.fr\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laurentqueyssi.fr\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laurentqueyssi.fr\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/laurentqueyssi.fr\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/laurentqueyssi.fr\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laurentqueyssi.fr\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laurentqueyssi.fr\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}