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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... sound of the new will give all but the most blinkered reactionary an appetite for the unknown . But above all , the over- whelming strength of this book is that it also makes you want to listen afresh to music that you thought you knew ...
... sound of the new will give all but the most blinkered reactionary an appetite for the unknown . But above all , the over- whelming strength of this book is that it also makes you want to listen afresh to music that you thought you knew ...
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... sound , he exerted marginal influence ( a poor criterion for measuring achievement ) and recorded a small body of work between 1929 and 1946. Yet anyone who fails to ferret out such perform- ances as " Please Don't Talk About Me When I ...
... sound , he exerted marginal influence ( a poor criterion for measuring achievement ) and recorded a small body of work between 1929 and 1946. Yet anyone who fails to ferret out such perform- ances as " Please Don't Talk About Me When I ...
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... sound of battered 78s combined with his monologist's style makes for tough going . But Columbia and Victor ought to clean up and issue its Williams recordings or give the masters to companies will- ing to do so . ( Most are public ...
... sound of battered 78s combined with his monologist's style makes for tough going . But Columbia and Victor ought to clean up and issue its Williams recordings or give the masters to companies will- ing to do so . ( Most are public ...
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... sound than that of George Washington's as father of the country in which the blues was born . Not to suggest that the blues was invented all at once in August of 1912 , when W. C. Handy elected to publish his " Memphis Blues . " We are ...
... sound than that of George Washington's as father of the country in which the blues was born . Not to suggest that the blues was invented all at once in August of 1912 , when W. C. Handy elected to publish his " Memphis Blues . " We are ...
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... made to dry white tears , she found herself in a cul - de - sac . She didn't make another film for seven years , when she played Dilsey in an idiotic version of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury . Worse 58 Precursors.
... made to dry white tears , she found herself in a cul - de - sac . She didn't make another film for seven years , when she played Dilsey in an idiotic version of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury . Worse 58 Precursors.
Contenido
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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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