Ugly beauty : jazz in the twenty-first century /

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Includes discography."What does jazz 'mean' 20 years into the 21st century? Has streaming culture rendered music literally meaningless, thanks to the removal of all context beyond the playlist? Are there any traditions left to explore? Has the destruction of the apprenticeship model (young musicians learning from their elders) changed the music irrevocably? Are any sounds off limits? How far out can you go and still call it 'jazz'? Or should the term be retired? These questions, and many more, are answered in Ugly Beauty, as Phil Freeman digs through his own experiences and conversations with present-day players. Jazz has never seemed as vital as it does right now, and has a genuine role to play in 21st-century culture, particularly in the US and the UK. "--Part I. JD Allen : just keep going ; Jeremy Pelt : you eventually sound like yourself ; Wayne Escoffery : we all learn lessons in life ; Victor Gould : a challenge to be embraced ; Ethan Iverson & Orrin Evans : in two notes I could tell ; Jason Moran : how do you value your work? -- Part II. Vijay Iyer : on the either-or side ; Victor Ho Bynum : blurring lines, upending expectations ; Tomeka Reid & Nicole Mitchell : the importance of radical imagination ; Mary Halvorson : how can I create something new? ; Linda May Han Oh : ebb and flow ; Tyshawn Sorey : write it down and believe in it -- Part III. Shabaka Hutchings : I guess he can play ... ; Yazz Ahmed : becoming whole ; Nubya Garcia & Shirley Tetteh : we're not Americans ; Brandee Younger & Makaya McCraven : making connections, shining a light ; Nduduzo Makhathini, Siya Makuzeni, Thandi Ntuli, Linda Sikhakhane & Ndabo Zulu : recovering indigenous knowledge ; Kamasi Washington, Ryan Porter, Cameron Graves, Miles Mosley, Thundercat & Dwight Trible : a force to be reckoned with ; Darius Jones : it's about connections -- Part IV. Ambrose Akinmusire : expressing complexity ; Christian Scott a Tunde Adjuah : where the power rests ; Keyon Harrold : you gotta kill it ; Theo Croker : this is all black music ; Marquis Hill : reaching the people -- Part V. Jaimie Branch : sometimes I edit myself ; James Brandon Lewis : it just depends ; Matana Roberts : child of the wind ; Kassa Overall : finding something in everything ; Moor Mother & Luke Stewart : we all come together.