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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... piano and taught to hammer out the rudiments of a blues chorus . It takes only a matter of minutes to learn . Yet pianists who are great virtuosos in other idioms have spent years shoveling one blues chorus after another without getting ...
... piano and taught to hammer out the rudiments of a blues chorus . It takes only a matter of minutes to learn . Yet pianists who are great virtuosos in other idioms have spent years shoveling one blues chorus after another without getting ...
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... piano and wrote parody lyrics of songs by Cohan and Von Tilzer . " Marie of Sunny Italy , " written at the behest of his boss in a season when Italian songs were hot , earned him thirty - seven cents and was well worth it ; the man who ...
... piano and wrote parody lyrics of songs by Cohan and Von Tilzer . " Marie of Sunny Italy , " written at the behest of his boss in a season when Italian songs were hot , earned him thirty - seven cents and was well worth it ; the man who ...
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... piano only in F - sharp ( he used a trans- posing piano to shift keys , as Cohan and other self - taught songwriters did ) and required arrangers to prepare his scores ( he would dictate his harmonies through trial and error ) ...
... piano only in F - sharp ( he used a trans- posing piano to shift keys , as Cohan and other self - taught songwriters did ) and required arrangers to prepare his scores ( he would dictate his harmonies through trial and error ) ...
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... piano at Bricktop's , alternating with Leslie Hutchinson , the cabaret pianist and singer who performed simply as Hutch and , on one occasion , entertained at a party for the Prince of Wales . No sooner did he return home than Ellington ...
... piano at Bricktop's , alternating with Leslie Hutchinson , the cabaret pianist and singer who performed simply as Hutch and , on one occasion , entertained at a party for the Prince of Wales . No sooner did he return home than Ellington ...
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Contenido
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11 | |
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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