Visions of Jazz: The First CenturyPoised 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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VISIONS OF JAZZ: The First Century
Crítica de los usuarios - KirkusGiddins, a longtime Village Voice contributor and one of our most skillful jazz critics (Faces in the Crowd, 1992, etc.), offers a monumental work of ambition, an attempt to encapsulate a hundred ... Leer comentario completo
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Crítica de los usuarios - rocketjk - LibraryThingVisions of Jazz is a collection of 49 essays, each one describing a different jazz musician or group, moving more or less chronologically through the 20th century. Giddins is a very good writer, which ... Leer comentario completo
Contenido
Bert WilliamsAl Jolson Native Wits | 13 |
Hank JonesCharlie Haden Come Sunday | 19 |
Louis ArmstrongMills Brothers Signifying | 23 |
W C Handy Birth of the Blues | 27 |
Irving Berlin Ragging the Alley | 31 |
Spencer Williams The Bard of Basin Street | 45 |
Ethel Waters The Mother of Us All | 51 |
Bunk JohnsonGeorge Lewis Pithecanthropus Jazzman | 59 |
Nat King Cole The Comeback King | 402 |
Stan Getz Seasons | 407 |
Sonny Rollins The Muse Is Heard | 413 |
Dinah Washington The Queen | 425 |
Rahsaan Roland Kirk OneMan Band | 431 |
Art Tatum Sui Generis | 439 |
Charles Mingus Bigger Than Death | 444 |
Cecil Taylor Outer Curve | 455 |
Jelly Roll Morton Red Hot Dandy | 69 |
King Oliver Working Man Blues | 77 |
Louis Armstrong The Once and Future King | 83 |
Duke Ellington Part 1 The Poker Game | 102 |
Coleman Hawkins Patriarch | 118 |
Pee Wee Russell Seer | 130 |
Chick Webb King of the Savoy | 137 |
Fats Waller Comedy Tonight | 143 |
Benny Goodman The Mirror of Swing | 153 |
Jimmie Lunceford For Listeners Too | 162 |
Count BasieLester Young Westward Ho and Back | 170 |
Jimmy Rushing Swinging the Blues | 184 |
Roy Eldridge Jazz | 188 |
Ella Fitzgerald Joy | 196 |
Artie Shaw Cinderellas Last Stand | 204 |
Budd Johnson Chameleon | 210 |
Bobby Hackett Muzak Man | 214 |
Frank Sinatra The Ultimate in Theater | 220 |
Duke Ellington Part 2 The Enlightenment | 233 |
Billy Strayhorn Passion Flower | 252 |
Spike Jones Chasin the Birdaphone | 257 |
Charlie Parker Flying Home | 261 |
Dizzy Gillespie The Coup and After | 283 |
Sarah Vaughan Divine | 298 |
Thelonious Monk Rhythmaning | 308 |
Bud Powell Strictly Confidential | 318 |
Chico OTarrill North of the Border | 324 |
Stan Kenton Big | 327 |
Dexter Gordon Resurgence | 330 |
Miles Davis Kinds of Blues | 339 |
Gerry Mulligan Beyond Cool | 355 |
Art Blakey Jazz Messenger | 365 |
Billie Holiday Lady of Pain | 368 |
Modern Jazz Quartet The First Forty Years | 376 |
Ornette Coleman This Is Our Music | 467 |
John Coltrane Metamorphosis | 476 |
Duke Ellington Part 3 At the Pulpit | 490 |
Muhal Richard Abrams Meet This Composer | 501 |
Roscoe MitchellMarty Ehrlich The Audience | 509 |
Henry Threadgill The Big Top | 513 |
Charles GayleDavid S WareMatthew Shipp Sweet Agony | 522 |
Hannibal Peterson Out of Africa | 529 |
Jimmy Rowles The Late Hurrah | 533 |
John Carter American Echoes | 538 |
Dee Dee Bridgewater Back Home Again | 544 |
Julius Hemphill Gothams Minstrel | 547 |
Don Pullen Last Connections | 551 |
Gary Bartz The Middle Passage | 558 |
David Murray Profuse | 562 |
Dave Burrell Brotherly Love | 572 |
Abbey Lincoln Strong Wind Blowing | 575 |
Randy Weston Afrobeats | 587 |
Rosemary Clooney Going Her Way | 593 |
Joe Henderson Tributes | 601 |
Tommy Flanagan Standards and Practices | 606 |
Joe Lovano The Long Apprenticeship | 613 |
Geri AllenJacky Terrasson The Parameters of Hip | 618 |
Joshua Redman Tenor of the Times | 622 |
Stephen Scott Taking Time | 628 |
James Carter All of the Above | 630 |
Louis ArmstrongNicholas Payton Interpreted | 634 |
Cassandra Wilson A Different Songbook | 641 |
Don Byron Musically Correct | 646 |
Acknowledgments | 655 |
Index of Names | 657 |
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