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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... concerts , maybe 30,000 . But whatever it is , the money's there . " Sounds good , no ? Yet many ruefully recall a ... concert series sub- scriber may be identified by a lobotomized grin . Is this the future of jazz ? —a repertory ...
... concerts , maybe 30,000 . But whatever it is , the money's there . " Sounds good , no ? Yet many ruefully recall a ... concert series sub- scriber may be identified by a lobotomized grin . Is this the future of jazz ? —a repertory ...
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... concert hall . Yet jazz is enjoying an upsurge in popularity , as always in periods of consolidation when the audience is replenished until a new pathfinder unsettles the status quo and frightens it away . It isn't fashionable to point ...
... concert hall . Yet jazz is enjoying an upsurge in popularity , as always in periods of consolidation when the audience is replenished until a new pathfinder unsettles the status quo and frightens it away . It isn't fashionable to point ...
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... concert subscription series , a five - foot shelf of CDs , or a late - night commercial that guarantees the masterworks of every jazz giant for $ 19.95 - plus every vocalist if you act right now . Even the orthodox genesis of Great Men ...
... concert subscription series , a five - foot shelf of CDs , or a late - night commercial that guarantees the masterworks of every jazz giant for $ 19.95 - plus every vocalist if you act right now . Even the orthodox genesis of Great Men ...
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... concert tape of Eddie Cantor's Carnegie Hall Concert , and there hangs a tale . In 1962 , Audiofidelity issued an LP that purported to document Cantor's March 21 , 1950 , Carnegie Hall concert . Thirty years later , Can- tor's grandson ...
... concert tape of Eddie Cantor's Carnegie Hall Concert , and there hangs a tale . In 1962 , Audiofidelity issued an LP that purported to document Cantor's March 21 , 1950 , Carnegie Hall concert . Thirty years later , Can- tor's grandson ...
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... concert with Lewis at his worst - out of tune and floundering ( “ Jingle Bells " insults his memory ) -- while omit- ting Lewis's touching and evocative speech at the close of the Southland album , and crediting Purnell with Watkins's ...
... concert with Lewis at his worst - out of tune and floundering ( “ Jingle Bells " insults his memory ) -- while omit- ting Lewis's touching and evocative speech at the close of the Southland album , and crediting Purnell with Watkins's ...
Contenido
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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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