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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... album when he forsook rock and roll and then returned to what little Mammon he had at his disposal , but he couldn't do both - he couldn't do nationally what , say , Count Basie and Jimmy Rushing could do provincially , barnstorming the ...
... album when he forsook rock and roll and then returned to what little Mammon he had at his disposal , but he couldn't do both - he couldn't do nationally what , say , Count Basie and Jimmy Rushing could do provincially , barnstorming the ...
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... albums to mark the con- nection : Good Company ( Challenge ) , with Cannonball's " Sermonette " and some of altoist ... album , undoubtedly recalling his family band apprenticeship in the Bible Belt . His looming , sonorous , shivery ...
... albums to mark the con- nection : Good Company ( Challenge ) , with Cannonball's " Sermonette " and some of altoist ... album , undoubtedly recalling his family band apprenticeship in the Bible Belt . His looming , sonorous , shivery ...
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... album on Columbia , the Blue Note session with Sidney Bechet - remained in print didn't help his case . But in 1990 , Bill Russell , then eighty - five and ailing ( he died two years later ) , entrusted his catalog to George H. Buck ...
... album on Columbia , the Blue Note session with Sidney Bechet - remained in print didn't help his case . But in 1990 , Bill Russell , then eighty - five and ailing ( he died two years later ) , entrusted his catalog to George H. Buck ...
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... album recorded by Joe Mares for his Southland record label in 1954 , an espe- cially ripe year for Lewis . In those twenty or so minutes of music , the richness of his low bleeding sound was perfectly captured , in part be- cause he was ...
... album recorded by Joe Mares for his Southland record label in 1954 , an espe- cially ripe year for Lewis . In those twenty or so minutes of music , the richness of his low bleeding sound was perfectly captured , in part be- cause he was ...
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Contenido
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67 | |
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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