A review by carmanj
Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century by Nate Chinen

4.0

For someone like me who mostly laps up jazz that is already canonical, Chinen’s pieces are a way in to music that I find alienating. I don’t know that I will find any new favourite artists this way, but at least I’m adding a more nuanced description to my assumptions about acclaimed artists like Mary Halvorson or Vijay Iyer. Reading this also lights a fire for myself in my own music making, conservative though it may be.