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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... jazz expert walked me back to the sitting room where his wife was pre- paring a tray of tea and lemon biscuits , I recognized Tommy Dorsey's big band in full sway . I must have cocked my head , because before I could say a word , he ...
... jazz expert walked me back to the sitting room where his wife was pre- paring a tray of tea and lemon biscuits , I recognized Tommy Dorsey's big band in full sway . I must have cocked my head , because before I could say a word , he ...
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... band ; the jazzmen leave him alone for most of his three se- lections . But Bunk had lost his limited powers that night , and his notes are muffled and pained . The producers did him no favor by replacing his own band with an all - star ...
... band ; the jazzmen leave him alone for most of his three se- lections . But Bunk had lost his limited powers that night , and his notes are muffled and pained . The producers did him no favor by replacing his own band with an all - star ...
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... struc- ture with a stomp episode that became anthemic in the swing era when Fletcher Henderson turned it into a big band riff chorus . Morton himself did not adapt it for his recording ensembles , but Jelly Roll Morton 71.
... struc- ture with a stomp episode that became anthemic in the swing era when Fletcher Henderson turned it into a big band riff chorus . Morton himself did not adapt it for his recording ensembles , but Jelly Roll Morton 71.
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... big band . The results are uneven , yet fascinating . " Sweet Anita Mine " is a soufflé for twelve musicians , marred by a tacky clarinet solo , with a transitional passage for reeds that shows he had been listening to Frank Trumbauer ...
... big band . The results are uneven , yet fascinating . " Sweet Anita Mine " is a soufflé for twelve musicians , marred by a tacky clarinet solo , with a transitional passage for reeds that shows he had been listening to Frank Trumbauer ...
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Contenido
3 | |
11 | |
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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