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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... player may have only a few good solos or a few good notes , but if they express something found nowhere else , they are treasurable and they sustain our interest . The most pleasurable experiences in jazz include countless fugitive ...
... player may have only a few good solos or a few good notes , but if they express something found nowhere else , they are treasurable and they sustain our interest . The most pleasurable experiences in jazz include countless fugitive ...
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... players , wanderers and others of their underprivileged but un- daunted class from Missouri to the Gulf , and had become a common medium through which any such individual might express his personal feelings in a sort of musical ...
... players , wanderers and others of their underprivileged but un- daunted class from Missouri to the Gulf , and had become a common medium through which any such individual might express his personal feelings in a sort of musical ...
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... players in their middle years . Then , too , in the ' 60s , the burgeoning pop- ularity of urban blues ( Muddy Waters and Howlin ' Wolf finally began to break the race barrier , and B. B. King would soon follow ) and rural blues ( Son ...
... players in their middle years . Then , too , in the ' 60s , the burgeoning pop- ularity of urban blues ( Muddy Waters and Howlin ' Wolf finally began to break the race barrier , and B. B. King would soon follow ) and rural blues ( Son ...
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... players were beating a path to Berlin . " Success , " he explained , " depends on the trick of putting in what we call ' the punch ' - that's a swinging melody [ this in 1912 ] or a sudden twist which will make an impression on the ...
... players were beating a path to Berlin . " Success , " he explained , " depends on the trick of putting in what we call ' the punch ' - that's a swinging melody [ this in 1912 ] or a sudden twist which will make an impression on the ...
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... with white players . For that matter , “ Shim - Me - Sha - Wabble " became a proving ground for white clarinetists in recordings that featured Leon Rappolo , Frank Teschemacher , Benny Goodman , and Don Murray , 48 Precursors.
... with white players . For that matter , “ Shim - Me - Sha - Wabble " became a proving ground for white clarinetists in recordings that featured Leon Rappolo , Frank Teschemacher , Benny Goodman , and Don Murray , 48 Precursors.
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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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