People get ready : the future of jazz is now! / Ajay Heble and Rob Wallace, eds.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-294) and index.

Now is the time : voicing against the grain of orality / Aldon Lynn Nielsen -- The antiquity of the avant-garde : a meditation on a comment by Duke Ellington / John Szwed -- Listening trust: the everyday politics of George Lewis' "dream team" / Julie Dawn Smith and Ellen Waterman -- Jeanne Lee's voice / Eric Porter -- Kick out the jazz! / Rob Wallace -- Days of bread and roses / Marc Ribot -- Subsidy/advocacy/theory : experimental music in the academy, in New York City, and beyond / Tamar Barzel -- Subsidizing the experimental muse: rereading Ribot / John Brackett -- Musician writes about creative music venues in Toronto / Scott Thomson -- Somewhere there : contemporary music, performance spaces, and cultural policy / Alan Stanbridge -- Sound check : he jazz photography of Thomas King -- Get ready: jazz futures -- Black jazz in the digital age / Greg Tate -- Improvising digital culture: a conversation / DJ Spooky and Vijay Iyer -- Ancient to the future : celebrating 40 years of the AACM / Douglas Ewart, Nicole Mitchell, Roscoe Mitchell, Famoudou Don Moye, Matana Roberts, Jaribu Shahid, Wadada Leo Smith, Corey Wilkes -- People, don't get ready: improvisation, democracy, and hope / Tracy McMullen.