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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... Club , four / four rhythms with accents on the downbeats were ubiquitous . It remained only for a few white aco- lytes to spread the word to the majority population , a mission success- fully adopted by associates of Paul Whiteman and ...
... Club , four / four rhythms with accents on the downbeats were ubiquitous . It remained only for a few white aco- lytes to spread the word to the majority population , a mission success- fully adopted by associates of Paul Whiteman and ...
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... clubs and hacked - out arrangements . Louis Armstrong , on the other hand , was always a renegade , even when he acceded to the same idiocies in material and setting . He could telegraph with a growl or a rolling of his eyes his ...
... clubs and hacked - out arrangements . Louis Armstrong , on the other hand , was always a renegade , even when he acceded to the same idiocies in material and setting . He could telegraph with a growl or a rolling of his eyes his ...
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... club show and asked me to sing a song in it . I hastily wrote a lyric , silly in the matters of common sense , and sang it- " Alexander's Ragtime Band " at the performance . It turned out to be what the vaude- villians call " a riot ...
... club show and asked me to sing a song in it . I hastily wrote a lyric , silly in the matters of common sense , and sang it- " Alexander's Ragtime Band " at the performance . It turned out to be what the vaude- villians call " a riot ...
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... Club and introduced " Dinah " ; in 1927 , she appeared in a Broadway revue , Africana . She made her first film in 1929 , playing herself in On with the Show - here we can appreciate her compelling stage presence as she sings ...
... Club and introduced " Dinah " ; in 1927 , she appeared in a Broadway revue , Africana . She made her first film in 1929 , playing herself in On with the Show - here we can appreciate her compelling stage presence as she sings ...
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... Club Show of Spring , 1933. " Your imagination can carry you just so far , " she wrote . " Only those who have been hurt deeply can understand what pain is or humiliation . Only those who are being burned know what fire is like . I sang ...
... Club Show of Spring , 1933. " Your imagination can carry you just so far , " she wrote . " Only those who have been hurt deeply can understand what pain is or humiliation . Only those who are being burned know what fire is like . I sang ...
Contenido
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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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