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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... tunes- mith James Bland ( he wrote " In the Evening By the Moonlight " and " Oh Dem Golden Slippers " as well ) , was ... tune spurred heavy black sales of the record in the summer of 1937 , but did anyone comment back then on the curios ...
... tunes- mith James Bland ( he wrote " In the Evening By the Moonlight " and " Oh Dem Golden Slippers " as well ) , was ... tune spurred heavy black sales of the record in the summer of 1937 , but did anyone comment back then on the curios ...
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... tunes and coupled it with the turn - of - the - century ballad , “ In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree . " With a few alterations , Armstrong could dis- tance himself from " Carry Me Back " ; with his natural élan , he could restore the ...
... tunes and coupled it with the turn - of - the - century ballad , “ In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree . " With a few alterations , Armstrong could dis- tance himself from " Carry Me Back " ; with his natural élan , he could restore the ...
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... tune was actually performed by him three years earlier . Nor was it the first song to use the word blues in the title . Yet as the first blues to create a stir with its publication , " Memphis Blues " triggered the widespread ...
... tune was actually performed by him three years earlier . Nor was it the first song to use the word blues in the title . Yet as the first blues to create a stir with its publication , " Memphis Blues " triggered the widespread ...
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... tune in The Great Gatsby . Handy was candid about what he brought to " Memphis Blues " : mel- ody , popularization , a degree of personal expression . Whether he did , in fact , compose the melody or merely notated it from memory , he ...
... tune in The Great Gatsby . Handy was candid about what he brought to " Memphis Blues " : mel- ody , popularization , a degree of personal expression . Whether he did , in fact , compose the melody or merely notated it from memory , he ...
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... tunes on the black keys of the piano and wrote parody lyrics of songs by Cohan and Von Tilzer . " Marie of Sunny ... Tune . " When the up - and - coming Can- tor added " My Wife's Gone to the Country ( Hooray ! ) " to his vaudeville ...
... tunes on the black keys of the piano and wrote parody lyrics of songs by Cohan and Von Tilzer . " Marie of Sunny ... Tune . " When the up - and - coming Can- tor added " My Wife's Gone to the Country ( Hooray ! ) " to his vaudeville ...
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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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