Edition: Paperback, 2000

Description: 256 Pages REVIEWS:
"Mandel is one of the few writers in jazz today who gets close. He clearly has a grasp of the movement of this music, the undercurrents, the nuances, the text and subtext."
-Cassandra Wilson

"At last someone's beginning to take this music seriously! Howard's passion is admirable."
-John Zorn

DESCRIPTION:
In a series of vividly drawn portraits and intimate, in-depth interviews with musicians, composers, improvisors and music business entrepreneurs, Mandel captures the vitality and passion of the modern jazz scene from the 1970s to the present. The most celebrated jazz stylists of recent years have been the so-called Young Lions, and Mandel includes an exclusive three part interview with the Lion King himself, Wynton Marsalis, who relates his background, philosophy of jazz, and pointed opinions on current music. But most of Future Jazz focuses on other trend-setters, tracing the development of new jazz communities (including Chicago's AACM, St. Louis's BAG, and New York's M Base Collective), groups from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to John Zorn's Masada, and major figures including Gen Allen, Joe Lovano, David Murray, Henry Threadgill and Cassandra Wilson.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Howard Mandel is president of the Jazz Journalists Association and edits its web site. He has also written about jazz for Billboard, The Village Voice, Downbeat, Jazziz and The New York Times Book Review.