Making the scene : contemporary New York City big band jazz /
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
c2007.
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Table of Contents:
- New York City big band scenes
- Behind the scenes : training, rehearsals, and gigs
- The rise of repertory orchestras
- On the inside : the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra
- Making it work : leaders and musical direction
- New directions in jazz composition : three portraits
- On the edge : Sue Mingus and the Mingus Big Band
- "In the crack" to "totally outside" : avant-garde bands
- Jazz and clave : Latin big bands
- Going for it : all-women bands
- Blood on the fields : Wynton Marsalis and the transformation of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra
- Outro.