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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... melodic and harmonic content that suggests ( for example , the major to dimin- ished harmonic change at III 14 ) the ... Melody , " for one cunning example ) are now recognized as marvels of ' 20s jazz orchestration , and the profound ...
... melodic and harmonic content that suggests ( for example , the major to dimin- ished harmonic change at III 14 ) the ... Melody , " for one cunning example ) are now recognized as marvels of ' 20s jazz orchestration , and the profound ...
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... melody . His best songs are intractably melodic , far more so than the typical three - chord / three - line stanzas encountered among most perform- ers of the ' 20s , rural or urban . Not unlike Irving Berlin and his " Alex- ander's ...
... melody . His best songs are intractably melodic , far more so than the typical three - chord / three - line stanzas encountered among most perform- ers of the ' 20s , rural or urban . Not unlike Irving Berlin and his " Alex- ander's ...
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... Melody , " in which complementary melodies and lyrics were counterpoised -- the audience cheered , " Composer ! Compos- er ! " Berlin , who refused Hollywood's many importunities to film his life , was not yet twenty - six . Berlin's ...
... Melody , " in which complementary melodies and lyrics were counterpoised -- the audience cheered , " Composer ! Compos- er ! " Berlin , who refused Hollywood's many importunities to film his life , was not yet twenty - six . Berlin's ...
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... Melody . " Meantime , he'd also written a two - step without a lyric , which , in Berlin's words , was " a dead failure " that lay unpub- lished for six months . Berlin described what happened next in one of the several interviews he ...
... Melody . " Meantime , he'd also written a two - step without a lyric , which , in Berlin's words , was " a dead failure " that lay unpub- lished for six months . Berlin described what happened next in one of the several interviews he ...
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... melody served as an oblique conduit for the rhythmic excitement of black music , even though his song has relatively little rhythmic inter- est . All the syncopations are in the verse , where eleven out of sixteen measures begin with a ...
... melody served as an oblique conduit for the rhythmic excitement of black music , even though his song has relatively little rhythmic inter- est . All the syncopations are in the verse , where eleven out of sixteen measures begin with a ...
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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