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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... Swing ) 18 Jimmie Lunceford ( For Listeners , Too ) 19 Count Basie / Lester Young ( Westward Ho ! and Back ) 20 Jimmy Rushing ( Swinging the Blues ) 21 Roy Eldridge ( Jazz ) 22 Ella Fitzgerald ( Joy ) 196 Artie Shaw ( Cinderella's Last ...
... Swing ) 18 Jimmie Lunceford ( For Listeners , Too ) 19 Count Basie / Lester Young ( Westward Ho ! and Back ) 20 Jimmy Rushing ( Swinging the Blues ) 21 Roy Eldridge ( Jazz ) 22 Ella Fitzgerald ( Joy ) 196 Artie Shaw ( Cinderella's Last ...
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... Swing ! " " Dixieland ! " " Free jazz ! " " Modern ! " " Fusion ! " No , not fusion . But you get the idea . For most of this century , the jazz audience has been atomized into frequently warring satellites . One could interpret jazz ...
... Swing ! " " Dixieland ! " " Free jazz ! " " Modern ! " " Fusion ! " No , not fusion . But you get the idea . For most of this century , the jazz audience has been atomized into frequently warring satellites . One could interpret jazz ...
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... swing , is a delicate thing easily provoked to lunacy . That discovery was as much an element of modernism as that of Jones's contemporary , Charlie Parker , who showed that swing contains multitudes . Everyone has his or her vision of ...
... swing , is a delicate thing easily provoked to lunacy . That discovery was as much an element of modernism as that of Jones's contemporary , Charlie Parker , who showed that swing contains multitudes . Everyone has his or her vision of ...
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... swing make the world safe for improvisation . That's commerce and sociology . The musical seeds were sown and cultivated in the ' 20s , and the culture never looked back except to indulge a rather remote nostalgia . As a result , the ...
... swing make the world safe for improvisation . That's commerce and sociology . The musical seeds were sown and cultivated in the ' 20s , and the culture never looked back except to indulge a rather remote nostalgia . As a result , the ...
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... swing . By way of explaining his penchant for speaking his songs , Williams claimed to have mistreated his voice when touring in minstrel shows . The lamentable sound of battered 78s combined with his monologist's style makes for tough ...
... swing . By way of explaining his penchant for speaking his songs , Williams claimed to have mistreated his voice when touring in minstrel shows . The lamentable sound of battered 78s combined with his monologist's style makes for tough ...
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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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