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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... performance was shelved because Cantor occasionally leaps off - mike when singing . But the music is less evocative than the recitation , an expansive and moving reminis- cence of a career that began in 1910. Cantor begins by recalling ...
... performance was shelved because Cantor occasionally leaps off - mike when singing . But the music is less evocative than the recitation , an expansive and moving reminis- cence of a career that began in 1910. Cantor begins by recalling ...
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... performance into a mock church service , entering like a deacon ( " Now brothers ! " ) , impaling every phrase on the precision of his caricature : “ That's where my heart turns , Yowsah ! ... Know one thing ? My heart am still longin ...
... performance into a mock church service , entering like a deacon ( " Now brothers ! " ) , impaling every phrase on the precision of his caricature : “ That's where my heart turns , Yowsah ! ... Know one thing ? My heart am still longin ...
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... performance . It turned out to be what the vaude- villians call " a riot , " both here and in Europe . No one was more flabbergasted that I was at the smashing hit it made . I humbly began to study my own song , asking myself , " Why ...
... performance . It turned out to be what the vaude- villians call " a riot , " both here and in Europe . No one was more flabbergasted that I was at the smashing hit it made . I humbly began to study my own song , asking myself , " Why ...
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... performance and 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 ...
... performance and 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 ...
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... performance , the stomp aspect is muted , yet the piece demonstrates a rapprochement with Tin Pan Alley in combining two sixteen - bar strains with a closing thirty- two bar chorus . When he rerecorded it as a piano solo in 1926 ( the ...
... performance , the stomp aspect is muted , yet the piece demonstrates a rapprochement with Tin Pan Alley in combining two sixteen - bar strains with a closing thirty- two bar chorus . When he rerecorded it as a piano solo in 1926 ( 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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