Jerome Camal, French of birth, is assistant to the Washington University of Saint Louis in jazz studies, musicologia and etnomusicologia. But it is also a saxophonist that is not satisfied with to live of academic searches and he/she doesn’t want that teacher calls him/it, but he prefers to play in the places, to plunge himself/herself/themselves in jam sessions and to teach the practice of the tool.
A stimulating character, that entertains in his/her home page a section devoted in full to the analysis of the political jazz of the sixties.
The observations of Camal are stimulating, ideologically you direct not, also succeeding at the same time to recover important figures of that season, giving them a correct position (is worth on all the examples of Frank Kofsky and Amiri Baraka, today a little considered, in kind the first one).
Camal quotes them, he/she criticizes them. I mark that their ideas “strong” on the jazz they maintain intact their charm, to distance of years.
The studies on the jazz, more and more serious and philologically correct, you/they are receiving spaces ever had before. There are authors that bring...