ABSTRACT
Through a focus on pianist/composer Jason Moran’s interdisciplinary multimedia collaborations using extra-musical visual and sonic media, literature, and other forms and artifacts not customarily associated with US jazz presentation norms, this chapter reflects on the history of jazz’s relationship to other arts; explores the contact zones between jazz and allied expressive forms; and considers how dominant jazz ideologies, myths, and narratives might be reconfigured if we look at the music in multi-, cross-, and intermedia contexts rather than as a sovereign and unique art form with a tradition, culture, and scenes all its own.
