Visions of Jazz: The First CenturyOxford University Press, 1998 M10 22 - 704 páginas Poised to become a classic of jazz literature, Visions of Jazz: The First Century offers seventy-nine chapters illuminating the lives of virtually all the major figures in jazz history. From Louis Armstrong's renegade-style trumpet playing to Sarah Vaughan's operatic crooning, and from the swinging elegance of Duke Ellington to the pioneering experiments of Ornette Coleman, jazz critic Gary Giddins continually astonishes the reader with his unparalleled insight. Writing with the grace and wit that have endeared his prose to Village Voice readers for decades, Giddins also widens the scope of jazz to include such crucial American musicians as Irving Berlin, Rosemary Clooney, and Frank Sinatra, all primarily pop performers who are often dismissed by fans and critics as mere derivatives of the true jazz idiom. And he devotes an entire quarter of this landmark volume to young, still-active jazz artists, boldly expanding the horizons of jazz--and charting and exploring the music's influences as no other book has done. |
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... Orleans trumpeter Buddy Bolden led the first band universally regarded as an identifiable jazz ensemble ) , it has waxed too much history for concise assessment and too little for time - filtered consensus . Fans who confidently recited ...
... Orleans trumpeter Buddy Bolden led the first band universally regarded as an identifiable jazz ensemble ) , it has waxed too much history for concise assessment and too little for time - filtered consensus . Fans who confidently recited ...
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... Orleans con- jured jazz in Chicago , while Fletcher Henderson and Don Redman , of Georgia and West Virginia , orchestrated it in New York . By the time Duke Ellington issued modernity's coup de grace with his 1927 triumph at the Cotton ...
... Orleans con- jured jazz in Chicago , while Fletcher Henderson and Don Redman , of Georgia and West Virginia , orchestrated it in New York . By the time Duke Ellington issued modernity's coup de grace with his 1927 triumph at the Cotton ...
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... Orleans to Chicago . Armstrong greatly admired Williams , but he was knocked for a loop by Bill Robinson , who beguiled audiences north of Mason - Dixon with his manly grace and nat- ural color . Williams , a light - skinned man , was a ...
... Orleans to Chicago . Armstrong greatly admired Williams , but he was knocked for a loop by Bill Robinson , who beguiled audiences north of Mason - Dixon with his manly grace and nat- ural color . Williams , a light - skinned man , was a ...
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... Orleans . With a start like that , it's small wonder Handy spent much of his life demanding respect for his music . He got it , too . He conquered Carnegie Hall in 1928 , at fifty - five , and when he died thirty years later , Handy had ...
... Orleans . With a start like that , it's small wonder Handy spent much of his life demanding respect for his music . He got it , too . He conquered Carnegie Hall in 1928 , at fifty - five , and when he died thirty years later , Handy had ...
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... Orleans's gumbo ) in which ethnicities rose to the top , af- firming the rise of the underclass musical styles that would dominate American music in the twentieth century . Joplin himself was not immune to the cross - cultural ...
... Orleans's gumbo ) in which ethnicities rose to the top , af- firming the rise of the underclass musical styles that would dominate American music in the twentieth century . Joplin himself was not immune to the cross - cultural ...
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A POPULAR MUSIC | 151 |
A MODERN MUSIC | 231 |
A MAINSTREAM MUSIC | 337 |
AN ALTERNATIVE MUSIC | 437 |
A STRUGGLING MUSIC | 527 |
A TRADITIONAL MUSIC | 585 |
Acknowledgments | 655 |
Index of Names | 657 |
Index of Songs and Selected Albums | 671 |
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