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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... trumpet player with an unmistakable style and sound , he exerted marginal influence ( a poor criterion for measuring achievement ) and recorded a small body of work between 1929 and 1946. Yet anyone who fails to ferret out such perform ...
... trumpet player with an unmistakable style and sound , he exerted marginal influence ( a poor criterion for measuring achievement ) and recorded a small body of work between 1929 and 1946. Yet anyone who fails to ferret out such perform ...
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... trumpet solos as devious and subversive as Frank Newton's could be heard in the playing of Hugh Ragin , Dave Douglas , and Nicholas Payton , to choose three entirely different visions . Small wonder that spoilsports emerge who want to ...
... trumpet solos as devious and subversive as Frank Newton's could be heard in the playing of Hugh Ragin , Dave Douglas , and Nicholas Payton , to choose three entirely different visions . Small wonder that spoilsports emerge who want to ...
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... ( trumpet , trombone , sax , tuba ) so well that they subtitled their act Four Boys and a Guitar to stress the cleverness of their mimicry . When they muted their vocal brass effects , their riffs suggested the El- lington band . But ...
... ( trumpet , trombone , sax , tuba ) so well that they subtitled their act Four Boys and a Guitar to stress the cleverness of their mimicry . When they muted their vocal brass effects , their riffs suggested the El- lington band . But ...
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... trumpet call - to freedom in life . If the flip side had been a similar piece or an ordinary ballad , the record would - despite Armstrong's saves - have limited meaning . But " Darling Nellie Gray " was one of the most powerful ...
... trumpet call - to freedom in life . If the flip side had been a similar piece or an ordinary ballad , the record would - despite Armstrong's saves - have limited meaning . But " Darling Nellie Gray " was one of the most powerful ...
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... trumpets , the polar opposites in a long - ago musical feud seemed fully revitalized when two albums were released in ... trumpet and recorded him , creating in 1944 the American Music Company to release his Johnson records and to make ...
... trumpets , the polar opposites in a long - ago musical feud seemed fully revitalized when two albums were released in ... trumpet and recorded him , creating in 1944 the American Music Company to release his Johnson records and to make ...
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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