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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... improvisation , and presentation were formulated ; and for the first time , a significant body of enduring masterworks was preserved on rec- ord . While Bessie Smith heralded the image of the blues diva , Ethel Wa- ters , drawing on the ...
... improvisation , and presentation were formulated ; and for the first time , a significant body of enduring masterworks was preserved on rec- ord . While Bessie Smith heralded the image of the blues diva , Ethel Wa- ters , drawing on the ...
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... 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 , true to the aesthetic of improvisation , unwilling to be 34 Precursors.
... 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 , true to the aesthetic of improvisation , unwilling to be 34 Precursors.
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The First Century Gary Giddins. true to the aesthetic of improvisation , unwilling to be bothered by the demands of business ; the other Jewish , reclusive , a stickler for detail , obsessed with promotion . The similarities are more ...
The First Century Gary Giddins. true to the aesthetic of improvisation , unwilling to be bothered by the demands of business ; the other Jewish , reclusive , a stickler for detail , obsessed with promotion . The similarities are more ...
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... improvisation - were widely not- ed . Just as Berlin absorbed the spirit if not the letter of ragtime ( " You know , I never did find out what ragtime was , " he told Max Morath ) , Kern assimilated spirituals , Gershwin and Arlen the ...
... improvisation - were widely not- ed . Just as Berlin absorbed the spirit if not the letter of ragtime ( " You know , I never did find out what ragtime was , " he told Max Morath ) , Kern assimilated spirituals , Gershwin and Arlen the ...
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... improvisation . Here , culled from diverse sources , are some presumably reliable facts . Williams was born in New Orleans , probably on October 14 , 1889. He later claimed the address to have been the notorious Basin Street , which he ...
... improvisation . Here , culled from diverse sources , are some presumably reliable facts . Williams was born in New Orleans , probably on October 14 , 1889. He later claimed the address to have been the notorious Basin Street , which he ...
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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