"Jazzing offers a rich and unique analysis of the social and musical lives of nonperforming participants in New York City's jazz scene(s). . . . Thomas Greenland tells a story of the vast and varied positions in a musical community that are not only necessary for, but constituent to, the community continuing to thrive."
Jazz & Culture "Those who think ... Read moredeeply and seriously about the fate and direction of jazz, America's unique musical art-form, will find it interesting and rewarding."
The Syncopated Times "A strikingly thoughtful book."
Jazz Journal "A very readable and entertainingly written book."
Jazzinstitut "A probing, fascinating, and sensitive portrait of a community of 'jazz people,' Tom Greenland's Jazzing reminds us that jazz is not simply sound, but is a way of life that impacts us in profound and different ways."
Ken Prouty, author of Knowing Jazz: Community, Pedagogy, and Canon in the Information Age "Written in a refreshing non-academic style . . . Jazzing offers a valuable portrait of the ever-changing New York jazz scene."
The New York City Jazz Record "Jazzing is a veritable whirlwind of congruent, conflicting and overlapping points of view. From Greenland's wide-angle vantage point . . . the listening to, presenting, writing about, photographing, creating visual art during performances, and promoting of live jazz is loaded with an array of complex social, economic and personal factors."
All About Jazz "Give[s] the audience - listeners, fans, and critics - alike a serious voice in the element of improvisation, which, in the case of jazz, is the key to its existence. . . . This book becomes well worth interacting with and becoming a part of the experience of its subject, i.e. Jazzing."
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