Visions of Jazz: The First CenturyOxford University Press, 1998 M10 22 - 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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... tune that became a blues standard , " Careless Love " ; for Clarence , he contributed two pieces that became ... tunes were Spencer's , " Poor House Blues " and " Thunderstorm Blues " ( Waller and Razaf wrote the third ) . Armstrong ...
... tune that became a blues standard , " Careless Love " ; for Clarence , he contributed two pieces that became ... tunes were Spencer's , " Poor House Blues " and " Thunderstorm Blues " ( Waller and Razaf wrote the third ) . Armstrong ...
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... tune recorded by Kenny Clarke in 1938 and the first recorded by Charlie Parker , with Jay McShann in 1940 . Even the theater opened up . Frank Schiffman chose Spencer to work with Waller on a new revue at the Lafayette called Tan Town ...
... tune recorded by Kenny Clarke in 1938 and the first recorded by Charlie Parker , with Jay McShann in 1940 . Even the theater opened up . Frank Schiffman chose Spencer to work with Waller on a new revue at the Lafayette called Tan Town ...
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... tune recorded . When Fats left for Paris , where he showed his wife the haunts he and Spencer had visited six years earlier , word that he had recorded spirituals on a pipe organ preceded him , and he was invited to play the organ at ...
... tune recorded . When Fats left for Paris , where he showed his wife the haunts he and Spencer had visited six years earlier , word that he had recorded spirituals on a pipe organ preceded him , and he was invited to play the organ at ...
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... tune up in New Orleans and break glasses in Algiers ! " Bolden had become the John Hen- ry of jazz , and here was Bunk , insisting the tales were true , or close enough . Yet even if he didn't bear witness to God's covenant with an ...
... tune up in New Orleans and break glasses in Algiers ! " Bolden had become the John Hen- ry of jazz , and here was Bunk , insisting the tales were true , or close enough . Yet even if he didn't bear witness to God's covenant with an ...
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... tune , but you don't mind - a rhythm section that stomps as heavily and as faithfully as this one can't help but emphasize the down and dirty essence of swing . Jim Little's tuba ( bonded with bassist Alcide " Slow Drag " Pavageau ...
... tune , but you don't mind - a rhythm section that stomps as heavily and as faithfully as this one can't help but emphasize the down and dirty essence of swing . Jim Little's tuba ( bonded with bassist Alcide " Slow Drag " Pavageau ...
Contenido
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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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