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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... wrote well about art or that Johnson was a darned good lexicographer . Giddins is an essayist and thinker capable of astonishing erudition , insight , and sensitivity , but first and foremost he's a breathtaking stylist , whose ...
... wrote well about art or that Johnson was a darned good lexicographer . Giddins is an essayist and thinker capable of astonishing erudition , insight , and sensitivity , but first and foremost he's a breathtaking stylist , whose ...
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... wrote of jazz many years ago , " I don't know how such great extremes as now exist can be contained under the one heading . " The word has become so commodi- ous with " great extremes " that its boundaries are no more secure than those ...
... wrote of jazz many years ago , " I don't know how such great extremes as now exist can be contained under the one heading . " The word has become so commodi- ous with " great extremes " that its boundaries are no more secure than those ...
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... wrote of him , “ As a performer , he was close to genius .... Whatever sense of timing I have , I learned from him . " Even before Jolson conquered Broadway , the uncanny figure of Williams , in his tattered top hat and tails , almost ...
... wrote of him , “ As a performer , he was close to genius .... Whatever sense of timing I have , I learned from him . " Even before Jolson conquered Broadway , the uncanny figure of Williams , in his tattered top hat and tails , almost ...
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... wrote , " Green Pastures is just a technicolor movie . " Yet as Kennedy took office , white elementary school teachers continued to declare Green Pastures an authentic portrait of black culture . Maybe it was inevitable that jazz ...
... wrote , " Green Pastures is just a technicolor movie . " Yet as Kennedy took office , white elementary school teachers continued to declare Green Pastures an authentic portrait of black culture . Maybe it was inevitable that jazz ...
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... wrote it , is heard in a medley that concludes with " Amazing Grace . " They even reclaim " We Shall Overcome . " The unadorned first chorus sounds like some- thing a rural church pianist might intone on an old 22 Precursors.
... wrote it , is heard in a medley that concludes with " Amazing Grace . " They even reclaim " We Shall Overcome . " The unadorned first chorus sounds like some- thing a rural church pianist might intone on an old 22 Precursors.
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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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