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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... touring in minstrel shows . The lamentable sound of battered 78s combined with his monologist's style makes for tough going . But Columbia and Victor ought to clean up and issue its Williams recordings or give the masters to companies ...
... touring in minstrel shows . The lamentable sound of battered 78s combined with his monologist's style makes for tough going . But Columbia and Victor ought to clean up and issue its Williams recordings or give the masters to companies ...
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... touring the country , recording prolifically ( team- ing up with such white stars as Bing Crosby , the Boswell Sisters , and Al Jolson ) , and appearing in films and on network radio . With only one change in personnel ( brother John ...
... touring the country , recording prolifically ( team- ing up with such white stars as Bing Crosby , the Boswell Sisters , and Al Jolson ) , and appearing in films and on network radio . With only one change in personnel ( brother John ...
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... tour , billed grandly if inaccurately as the King of Ragtime . The night before he opened in London , in a panic to present new material , he wrote " That International Rag , " and with his usual dispatch addressed the phenomenon of the ...
... tour , billed grandly if inaccurately as the King of Ragtime . The night before he opened in London , in a panic to present new material , he wrote " That International Rag , " and with his usual dispatch addressed the phenomenon of the ...
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... tour had paved the way , exemplifying one of the earliest manifestations of the increasingly symbiotic relationship between Jewish and black musicians . The synergy between cantorial singing and African American music - the minor third ...
... tour had paved the way , exemplifying one of the earliest manifestations of the increasingly symbiotic relationship between Jewish and black musicians . The synergy between cantorial singing and African American music - the minor third ...
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... touring company . That might seem a slim peg on which to hang genesis , yet it contains the parallel truths and illusions of the American West and the show business in a setting of genuine spectacle . Buffalo Bill once rounded up the ...
... touring company . That might seem a slim peg on which to hang genesis , yet it contains the parallel truths and illusions of the American West and the show business in a setting of genuine spectacle . Buffalo Bill once rounded up 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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