Improvisation, Race, and Sound Recording
Karl Coulthard
Published: 2010-06-15
ARTICLE: This article describes the different technological constructions of the 1956 Duke Ellington performance at Newport, Rhode Island. It pays particular attention to the reconstruction of the solo by saxophonist Paul Gonsalves, and argues that the sound recording of improvised jazz can both mediate and construct racial and commercial politics. AUDIO: Mono and Stereo recordings of Ellington's 'Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue.'
