Visions of Jazz: The First CenturyOxford University Press, 2000 M05 18 - 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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... ballad about the need to put on your galoshes . These thoughts are prompted by listening to the long - neglected sides , eleven in all , recorded by the Mills Brothers and Louis Armstrong for Decca between 1937 and 1940. The most ...
... ballad about the need to put on your galoshes . These thoughts are prompted by listening to the long - neglected sides , eleven in all , recorded by the Mills Brothers and Louis Armstrong for Decca between 1937 and 1940. The most ...
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... ballad , the record would - despite Armstrong's saves - have limited meaning . But " Darling Nellie Gray " was one of the most powerful abolitionist songs of the 1850s ; published only four years after Uncle Tom's Cabin , it is wide- ly ...
... ballad , the record would - despite Armstrong's saves - have limited meaning . But " Darling Nellie Gray " was one of the most powerful abolitionist songs of the 1850s ; published only four years after Uncle Tom's Cabin , it is wide- ly ...
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... 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 emotion to " Darling Nellie . " What in heaven's name ...
... 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 emotion to " Darling Nellie . " What in heaven's name ...
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... ballad " The Man I Love . " The ABAC chorus has nothing to do with ragtime ( unlike the countermelody of " Play a Simple Melody , ” which does cap- ture ragtime's lilt ) , but the interpolated fragments — the bugle call in mea- sures ...
... ballad " The Man I Love . " The ABAC chorus has nothing to do with ragtime ( unlike the countermelody of " Play a Simple Melody , ” which does cap- ture ragtime's lilt ) , but the interpolated fragments — the bugle call in mea- sures ...
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... ballad of lost love by the composer who eventually produced " All Alone , " " What'll I Do , " " How About Me ? " " Remember , ” “ How Deep Is the Ocean ? ” and “ They Say It's Wonderful , " among many others , it represented a personal ...
... ballad of lost love by the composer who eventually produced " All Alone , " " What'll I Do , " " How About Me ? " " Remember , ” “ How Deep Is the Ocean ? ” and “ They Say It's Wonderful , " among many others , it represented a personal ...
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A NEW MUSIC | 67 |
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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