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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... session ) is missing a remarkable artist , whose solos Charles Fox once astutely described as " devious , even faintly subver- sive . " Armstrong , Ellington , and Parker are gods . But Newton is one of a thousand worthy angels . The ...
... session ) is missing a remarkable artist , whose solos Charles Fox once astutely described as " devious , even faintly subver- sive . " Armstrong , Ellington , and Parker are gods . But Newton is one of a thousand worthy angels . The ...
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... session as the other minstrel tunes and coupled it with the turn - of - the - century ballad , “ In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree . " With a few alterations , Armstrong could dis- tance himself from " Carry Me Back " ; with his ...
... session as the other minstrel tunes and coupled it with the turn - of - the - century ballad , “ In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree . " With a few alterations , Armstrong could dis- tance himself from " Carry Me Back " ; with his ...
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... session on pipe organ , Fats introduced a new piece by his friend , " Pent Up in a Penthouse , " possibly the last Spencer Williams tune recorded . When Fats left for Paris , where he showed his wife the haunts he and Spencer had ...
... session on pipe organ , Fats introduced a new piece by his friend , " Pent Up in a Penthouse , " possibly the last Spencer Williams tune recorded . When Fats left for Paris , where he showed his wife the haunts he and Spencer had ...
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... session , as well as countless other double - entendre blues records . ( Andy Razaf was commissioned to write both of those songs , and Smith's rolled " r " in the " Kitchen Man " verse was as unusual for her as it was characteristic of ...
... session , as well as countless other double - entendre blues records . ( Andy Razaf was commissioned to write both of those songs , and Smith's rolled " r " in the " Kitchen Man " verse was as unusual for her as it was characteristic of ...
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... session with Sidney Bechet - remained in print didn't help his case . But in 1990 , Bill Russell , then eighty - five and ailing ( he died two years later ) , entrusted his catalog to George H. Buck , Jr. , the leading entrepre- neur of ...
... session with Sidney Bechet - remained in print didn't help his case . But in 1990 , Bill Russell , then eighty - five and ailing ( he died two years later ) , entrusted his catalog to George H. Buck , Jr. , the leading entrepre- neur of ...
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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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