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Author : Gordon Vernick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780787297756
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book Jazz History Overview written by Gordon Vernick and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gordon Vernick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780757538643
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)
Download or read book Jazz History Overview written by Gordon Vernick and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ted Gioia
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199840296
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)
Download or read book The History of Jazz written by Ted Gioia and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997-11-20 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jazz is the most colorful and varied art form in the world and it was born in one of the most colorful and varied cities, New Orleans. From the seed first planted by slave dances held in Congo Square and nurtured by early ensembles led by Buddy Belden and Joe "King" Oliver, jazz began its long winding odyssey across America and around the world, giving flower to a thousand different forms--swing, bebop, cool jazz, jazz-rock fusion--and a thousand great musicians. Now, in The History of Jazz, Ted Gioia tells the story of this music as it has never been told before, in a book that brilliantly portrays the legendary jazz players, the breakthrough styles, and the world in which it evolved. Here are the giants of jazz and the great moments of jazz history--Jelly Roll Morton ("the world's greatest hot tune writer"), Louis Armstrong (whose O-keh recordings of the mid-1920s still stand as the most significant body of work that jazz has produced), Duke Ellington at the Cotton Club, cool jazz greats such as Gerry Mulligan, Stan Getz, and Lester Young, Charlie Parker's surgical precision of attack, Miles Davis's 1955 performance at the Newport Jazz Festival, Ornette Coleman's experiments with atonality, Pat Metheny's visionary extension of jazz-rock fusion, the contemporary sounds of Wynton Marsalis, and the post-modernists of the Knitting Factory. Gioia provides the reader with lively portraits of these and many other great musicians, intertwined with vibrant commentary on the music they created. Gioia also evokes the many worlds of jazz, taking the reader to the swamp lands of the Mississippi Delta, the bawdy houses of New Orleans, the rent parties of Harlem, the speakeasies of Chicago during the Jazz Age, the after hours spots of corrupt Kansas city, the Cotton Club, the Savoy, and the other locales where the history of jazz was made. And as he traces the spread of this protean form, Gioia provides much insight into the social context in which the music was born. He shows for instance how the development of technology helped promote the growth of jazz--how ragtime blossomed hand-in-hand with the spread of parlor and player pianos, and how jazz rode the growing popularity of the record industry in the 1920s. We also discover how bebop grew out of the racial unrest of the 1940s and '50s, when black players, no longer content with being "entertainers," wanted to be recognized as practitioners of a serious musical form. Jazz is a chameleon art, delighting us with the ease and rapidity with which it changes colors. Now, in Ted Gioia's The History of Jazz, we have at last a book that captures all these colors on one glorious palate. Knowledgeable, vibrant, and comprehensive, it is among the small group of books that can truly be called classics of jazz literature.
Author : Thomas E. Larson
Publisher : Kendall Hunt
ISBN 13 : 9780787275747
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)
Download or read book History and Tradition of Jazz written by Thomas E. Larson and published by Kendall Hunt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dennis Owsley
Publisher : Reedy Press
ISBN 13 : 1933370041
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)
Download or read book City of Gabriels written by Dennis Owsley and published by Reedy Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City of Gabriels presents St. Louis's jazz history from 1895 to 1973. Highlighted with striking images from each era, this book describes the lively world of jazz from talents and personalities like Tom Turpin, Frank Trumbrauer, Singleton Palmer, Clark Terry, Jeanne Trevor, Willie Akins, Miles Davis, and countless others. City of Gabriels, written by St. Louis radio host Dennis Owsley, is a must for lovers of jazz. The book gives a needed insight into an enduring culture in St. Louis. Published in cooperation with The Sheldon Concert Hall and Art Galleries.
Author : Alyn Shipton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9780826473806
Total Pages : 965 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)
Download or read book New History of Jazz written by Alyn Shipton and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 965 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this major update of the acclaimed and award-winning jazz history, Alyn Shipton challenges many of the assumptions that surround the birth and growth of jazz music. Shipton also re-evaluates the transition from swing to be-bop, asking just how political this supposed modern jazz revolution actually was. He makes the case for jazz as a truly international music from its earliest days, charting significant developments outside the USA from the 1920s onwards. All the great names in jazz history are here, from Louis Armstrong to Miles Davis and from Sidney Bechet to Charlie Parker and John Coltrane. But unlike those historians who call a halt with the death of Coltrane in 1967, Shipton continues the story with the major trends in jazz over the last 40 years: free jazz, jazz rock, world music influences, and the re-emergence of the popular jazz singer. This new edition brings the book completely up-to-date, including such names as John Medeski, Diana Krall, Django Bates, and Matthias Ruegg. There are also impor¬tant new sections on Latin Jazz and the repertory movement.
Author : Frank Tirro
Publisher : New York : W.W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393021943
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book Jazz written by Frank Tirro and published by New York : W.W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1977 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to serve as a guide to the music and as an interpretation of the historical interaction that has taken place among jazz musicians, the music, and society. It is a survey of the historical development of this music from its African precursors to its current living exponents.
Author : Vernick-Hayden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780787297749
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book Jazz History Overview written by Vernick-Hayden and published by . This book was released on 2002-08-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoffrey C. Ward
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780712667692
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Download or read book Jazz written by Geoffrey C. Ward and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2001 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ken Burns and geoffrey Ward bring us the history of the first American music, from its beginnings in Ragtime, Blues and Gospel, through to the present day. JAZZ has been a prism through which so much of American History can be seen - a curious and unusually objective witness to the 20th Century.
Author : Robert Walser
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195091724
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)
Download or read book Keeping Time written by Robert Walser and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of sixty-two news articles, reviews, program notes, memoirs, and interviews from the twentieth century illuminates the history of jazz and features the thoughts of the great performers on the nature of the music and its controversies. UP.
