The Music of Stuart Saunders Smith

In the music of Stuart Saunders Smith (b. 1948) jazz the avant-garde and sound-text poetry coalesce. Through the years he has concentrated on certain kinds of compositionopen form radio music trans-media systems and sound-text poetry. Although Smith considers himself a jazz composer and drummer his work has been absorbed into a wider range of contemporary musical efforts both in the United States and Europe.This study of Smith contains six critical analyses an interview and bibliographic information containing a list of compositions a discography Smith''s publications and research currently available on his music. As Milton Babbitt notes All of his music is to be reckoned with and as such this volume will be of interest to all students and scholars of contemporary composition.