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Dameronia
The Life and Music of Tadd Dameron
Av Paul Combs
Häftad, 2013
405 kr
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Dameronia is the first authoritative biography of Tadd Dameron, an important and widely influential figure in jazz history as one of the most significant composers and arrangers of jazz, swing, bebop, and big band. He arranged for names like Count Basie, Artie Shaw, Jimmie Lunceford, and Dizzy …
Lee Konitz
Conversations on the Improviser's Art
Häftad, 2007
389 kr
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“Meticulously researched, detailed and documented, this long awaited overview justly establishes Konitz as one of the most consistently brilliant, adventurous and original improvisers in the jazz tradition—a genius as rare as Bird himself.”—John Zorn“Hamilton’s work may well mark the inception of a …
Delightfulee
The Life and Music of Lee Morgan
Häftad, 2008
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
389 kr
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One of the most individual stylists of his time, trumpeter Lee Morgan began his professional career in Philadelphia at age fifteen. At eighteen, after a short stint with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Morgan joined Dizzy Gillespie's orchestra, where he stayed until the group disbanded in 1958. A …
Ellington Uptown
Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and the Birth of Concert Jazz
Av John Howland
Häftad, 2009
393 kr
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During the early decades of the twentieth century symphonic jazz involved an expansive family of music that emulated, paralleled, and intersected the jazz tradition. Though now largely forgotten, symphonic jazz was both a popular music -- arranging tradition and a repertory of hybrid concert works, …
Rhythm Is Our Business
Jimmie Lunceford and the Harlem Express
Häftad, 2008
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
358 kr
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In the 1930s, swing music reigned, and the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra was the hottest and hippest attraction on the black dance circuits. Known for its impeccable appearance and infectious rhythms, Lunceford's group was able to out-swing and outdraw any band. For ten consecutive years, they were …
Music of Django Reinhardt
Häftad, 2009
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
402 kr
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"The Music of Django Reinhardt is an impressive contribution to the field of jazz studies. The book offers a penetrating view into the music of one of jazz's most intriguing early figures."---Keith Waters, coauthor, Jazz: The First Hundred Years"An important addition to the literature on jazz, …
Head Hunters
The Making of Jazz's First Platinum Album
Häftad, 2010
331 kr
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". . . [a] very readable dissection of all the different ways in which Herbie Hancock's 1973 album Head Hunters broke the mould. . . . An entertaining and thought-provoking read."---Jazzwise Magazine "An important and timely book. Pond's work reflects the insight an informed researcher and skilled …
Jazz and Machine-Age Imperialism
Music, "Race," and Intellectuals in France, 1918-1945
Häftad, 2014
393 kr
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Jeremy F. Lane’s Jazz and Machine-Age Imperialism is a bold challenge to the existing homogenous picture of the reception of American jazz in world-war era France. Lane’s book closely examines the reception of jazz among French-speaking intellectuals between 1918 and 1945 and is the first study to …
Music Is My Life
Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, and American Jazz
Av Daniel Stein
Häftad, 2012
594 kr
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Music Is My Life is the first comprehensive analysis of Louis Armstrong's autobiographical writings (including his books, essays, and letters) and their relation to his musical and visual performances. Combining approaches from autobiography theory, literary criticism, intermedia studies, cultural …
After Django
Making Jazz in Postwar France
Av Tom Perchard
Häftad, 2015
517 kr
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How did French musicians and critics interpret jazz—that quintessentially American music—in the mid-twentieth century? How far did players reshape what they learned from records and visitors into more local jazz forms, and how did the music figure in those angry debates that so often suffused …
John Lewis and the Challenge of "Real" Black Music
Häftad, 2016
517 kr
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For critics and listeners, the reception of the 1950s jazz-classical hybrid Third Stream music has long been fraught. In John Lewis and the Challenge of “Real” Black Music, Christopher Coady explores the work of one of the form’s most vital practitioners, following Lewis from his role as an …
Open the Door
The Life and Music of Betty Carter
Häftad, 2003
262 kr
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Betty Carter's lifelong influence on the music world is unparalleled. Her contributions to music as a jazz singer, composer, arranger, and teacher have fostered a generation of musicians and fans.This book looks at Betty Carter's contribution to the music world and delves behind the scenes to show …
John Lewis and the Challenge of "Real" Black Music
Inbunden, 2016
1297 kr
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For critics and listeners, the reception of the 1950s jazz-classical hybrid Third Stream music has long been fraught. In John Lewis and the Challenge of “Real” Black Music, Christopher Coady explores the work of one of the form’s most vital practitioners, following Lewis from his role as an …
Lester Young
Av Lewis Porter
Häftad, 2005
294 kr
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Praise for Lester Young:". . . a schematic of unparalleled insight and detail."---Down Beat"A monumental work."---Dizzy Gillespie". . . a major contribution to jazz scholarship . . . for its illumination of Lester Young's music and for setting the biographical record straight."---Dan …
Four Jazz Lives
Häftad, 2004
342 kr
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A revival of a classic oral biography of four nearly overlooked jazz giants
Jazz Journeys to Japan
The Heart Within
Inbunden, 2004
590 kr
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Part music history, part cultural meditation, part travel narrative, Jazz Journeys to Japan is the first book to address the experiences of individual players -- Japanese jazz greats such as Toshiko Akiyoshi, Masahiko Satoh, Makoto Ozone, and Yosuke Yamashita.William Minor navigates the converging …
Lennie Tristano
His Life in Music
Av Eunmi Shim
Inbunden, 2007
754 kr
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“In Lennie Tristano: His Life in Music, Shim has provided a comprehensive biographical and analytical account of one of jazz’s most important and most frequently misunderstood figures. Her insights into Tristano’s personality are well nuanced, and the focus on his teaching makes a unique …
New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History
Häftad, 2009
393 kr
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New Orleans Style tells the tale of the recognition of New Orleans jazz as a discrete style and how that recognition affected the writing of American jazz history. The men and women who participated in the awakening of American jazz scholarship were partisans of a community of "hot" record …
André Hodeir Jazz Reader
Av André Hodeir, Jean-Louis Pautrot
Häftad, 2006
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
393 kr
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First trained as a violinist, then as a composer, André Hodeir began writing about jazz in the 1940s. As editor-in-chief of the French magazine Jazz Hot, he was an early proponent of bebop and its practitioners, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.Downbeat called Hodeir's first compilation of jazz …
Music Is My Life
Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, and American Jazz
Av Daniel Stein
Inbunden, 2012
1368 kr
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Music Is My Life is the first comprehensive analysis of Louis Armstrong's autobiographical writings (including his books, essays, and letters) and their relation to his musical and visual performances. Combining approaches from autobiography theory, literary criticism, intermedia studies, cultural …
After Django
Making Jazz in Postwar France
Av Tom Perchard
Inbunden, 2015
1368 kr
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How did French musicians and critics interpret jazz—that quintessentially American music—in the mid-twentieth century? How far did players reshape what they learned from records and visitors into more local jazz forms, and how did the music figure in those angry debates that so often suffused …
Dameronia
The Life and Music of Tadd Dameron
Av Paul Combs
Inbunden, 2012
973 kr
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Dameronia is the first authoritative biography of Tadd Dameron, an important and widely influential figure in jazz history as one of the most significant composers and arrangers of jazz, swing, bebop, and big band. He arranged for names like Count Basie, Artie Shaw, Jimmie Lunceford, and Dizzy …
Delightfulee
The Life and Music of Lee Morgan
Inbunden, 2008
1337 kr
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One of the most individual stylists of his time, trumpeter Lee Morgan began his professional career in Philadelphia at age fifteen. At eighteen, after a short stint with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Morgan joined Dizzy Gillespie's orchestra, where he stayed until the group disbanded in 1958. A …
New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History
Inbunden, 2009
1085 kr
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New Orleans Style tells the tale of the recognition of New Orleans jazz as a discrete style and how that recognition affected the writing of American jazz history. The men and women who participated in the awakening of American jazz scholarship were partisans of a community of "hot" record …
