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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... dancers , " Boog It , " with its descriptive verse ( “ You do like shinin ' a window / But you ain't got no window / So you just picture a window / and Boog It ! —slow and easy ' ' ) ; and most pungent of all , Stephen Foster's ...
... dancers , " Boog It , " with its descriptive verse ( “ You do like shinin ' a window / But you ain't got no window / So you just picture a window / and Boog It ! —slow and easy ' ' ) ; and most pungent of all , Stephen Foster's ...
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... dance halls of Memphis . He faced two problems in getting it published . The first was easily resolved - what with Crump in charge , a change in the lyric was man- datory . The lyric , as published in 1912 , included this prophetic ...
... dance halls of Memphis . He faced two problems in getting it published . The first was easily resolved - what with Crump in charge , a change in the lyric was man- datory . The lyric , as published in 1912 , included this prophetic ...
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... dance or , for that matter , Scott Joplin to ragtime , Berlin was the progenitor of modern song - the agent of transition , who shaped the diverse strains of a fading . era into the representative art of a new one and made himself that ...
... dance or , for that matter , Scott Joplin to ragtime , Berlin was the progenitor of modern song - the agent of transition , who shaped the diverse strains of a fading . era into the representative art of a new one and made himself that ...
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... dancers , and bandleaders ; became emblematic of their native turf . One thinks of the parallel impact Louis Armstrong was to have on jazz . The differences between them are interesting but not very revealing : one black , ebullient ...
... dancers , and bandleaders ; became emblematic of their native turf . One thinks of the parallel impact Louis Armstrong was to have on jazz . The differences between them are interesting but not very revealing : one black , ebullient ...
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... Dance of the Grizzly Bear " and " Goodbye Becky Cohen " secured her stardom . He would later write several show- stoppers for the Follies , including " Woodman , Woodman , Spare That Tree " and " Ephraham Played Upon the Piano " for the ...
... Dance of the Grizzly Bear " and " Goodbye Becky Cohen " secured her stardom . He would later write several show- stoppers for the Follies , including " Woodman , Woodman , Spare That Tree " and " Ephraham Played Upon the Piano " for the ...
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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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