I segni, le indicazioni e i gesti utilizzati nelle celebri improvvisazioni condotte da Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris (1947-2013) sono stati raccolti e catalogati qualche tempo fa in un bel volume edito da Karma a New York, The Art of Conduction: A Conduction Workbook, al quale ha lungamente lavorato l'autore e che poi è stato portato a termine da una delle sue più assidue e preziose collaboratrici, Daniela Veronesi. Ne è finalmente pronta la versione in italiano, pubblicata a Lucca da Libreria Musicale Italiana, con contributi critici, cronologia completa e le splendide immagini - presenti anche nell'edizione originale - di un altro illustre affezionatissimo, Luciano Rossetti: L’arte della Conduction.
Lawrence Douglas "Butch" Morris was an American jazz cornetist, composer and conductor, internationally considered one of the great musical innovators of our times. His interests in ensemble music - from avant-garde jazz to contemporary classical - crystallized into a unique method of real-time orchestral composition, which he called Conduction, designed to enable conductors to direct an ensemble. Morris toured the world, introducing Conduction to a varied community of musicians, and his influence extended into art, dance, poetry and cinema. The Art of Conduction is a theoretical introduction and practical guide to Conduction. During the last ten years of his life, Morris worked to document his method in this book form; his untimely death left it near finished. Finally Daniela Veronesi, a linguist and longtime collaborator, brings his manuscript to completion.