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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... Quartet ( The First Forty Years ) 43 Nat King Cole ( The Comeback King ) 44 Stan Getz ( Seasons ) 45 Sonny Rollins ( The Muse Is Heard ) 46 Dinah Washington ( The Queen ) 47 Rahsaan Roland Kirk ( One - Man Band ) 355 365 368 376 402 407 ...
... Quartet ( The First Forty Years ) 43 Nat King Cole ( The Comeback King ) 44 Stan Getz ( Seasons ) 45 Sonny Rollins ( The Muse Is Heard ) 46 Dinah Washington ( The Queen ) 47 Rahsaan Roland Kirk ( One - Man Band ) 355 365 368 376 402 407 ...
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... quartet in American pop music and one of the first black groups to win international acceptance , made the leap from tent shows to New York via a triumphant radio stint in Cincinnati in 1929. Soon they were touring the country ...
... quartet in American pop music and one of the first black groups to win international acceptance , made the leap from tent shows to New York via a triumphant radio stint in Cincinnati in 1929. Soon they were touring the country ...
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... quartet ; interpolated remark before the close ( " Now , boys , what do you know about this ? ' ' ) ; second chorus alteration of the line " I'm sitting by the river and I'm weepin ' all the day " to " I'm sitting by the river and I'm ...
... quartet ; interpolated remark before the close ( " Now , boys , what do you know about this ? ' ' ) ; second chorus alteration of the line " I'm sitting by the river and I'm weepin ' all the day " to " I'm sitting by the river and I'm ...
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... quartet croon it straight than he suddenly turns the 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 ...
... quartet croon it straight than he suddenly turns the 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 ...
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... quartet as well as the larger ensemble . Watkins croons " St. Louis Street Blues , " an adaptation of Lou- is Armstrong's " Melancholy , " and Alton Purnell wails charming ver- sions of " Darkness on the Delta " ( later recovered by ...
... quartet as well as the larger ensemble . Watkins croons " St. Louis Street Blues , " an adaptation of Lou- is Armstrong's " Melancholy , " and Alton Purnell wails charming ver- sions of " Darkness on the Delta " ( later recovered by ...
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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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