![]() ![]() a tension that is at the heart of swinging, in music and in life” (xvi). He extrapolates a way of life from the music’s formal qualities, focusing on “the creative tension between self-expression and self-sacrifice. Marsalis confronts diverse challenges, like getting a job, keeping a relationship together, or staying healthy, with principles and anecdotes learned from a lifetime in jazz. Technical discussions of jazz music theory, jazz terminology, and jazz biography mix with “bandstand etiquette,” as he calls it, in a series of contrapuntal lessons on everyday life (30). Marsalis’s formidable skills as a teacher, honed in symposia around the world and especially at Jazz at Lincoln Center, are very much on display here. That this contribution arrives in the form of a self-help book presents some challenges to readers and critics accustomed to dismissing such material as uncomplicated fluff. ![]() Wynton Marsalis has made a significant contribution to jazz literature with Moving to a Higher Ground. ![]()
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