Jazz on the Line

Jazz on the Line: Improvisation in Practice presents an ethnographic reflection on improvisation as performance, examining how musicians think and act when negotiating improvisational frameworks. This multidisciplinary discussion explores the musical choices made by performers.

Petter Frost Fadnes is a saxophone player and researcher based at the Faculty of Performing Arts, University of Stavanger, Norway.

Chapter 1 Introduction to improvisational performativity / Chapter 2 Recording experience and the 'natural' death of improvised music / Chapter 3 Alexander von Schlippenbach and the question of tabula rasa / Chapter 4 Between the jazu kissa and the underground / Chapter 5 Cultural factories and the contemporary production line