Jazz Makers

Author : Alyn Shipton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195126890
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jazz Makers written by Alyn Shipton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-02-21 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifty biographical profiles cover the lives and accomplishments of pioneering and contemporary jazz greats, including such performers as Louis Armstrong, Wynton Marsalis, and Sarah Vaughan.

Author : Douglas K. Ramsey
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610752121
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jazz Matters, Reflections on Music and Some of Its Makers (p) written by Douglas K. Ramsey and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nat Shapiro
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jazz Makers written by Nat Shapiro and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1979-08-21 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alyn Shipton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190284420
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jazz Makers written by Alyn Shipton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-02-21 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jazz Makers gathers together short biographies of more than 50 of jazz's greatest stars, from its early beginnings to the present. The stories of these innovative instrumentalists, bandleaders, and composers reveal the fascinating history of jazz in six parts: * The Pioneers, including Scott Joplin, Louis Armstrong, and Bessie Smith * Swing Bands and Soloists, with Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, and Billie Holiday * The Piano Giants, featuring Fats Waller, Art Tatum, and Mary Lou Williams * Birth of Bebop, including Dizzy Gillepsie, Charlie Parker, and Miles Davis * Cool Jazz, Hard Bop, and Fusion, with John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, and Stan Getz * A Century of Jazz, featuring Wynton Marsalis, Joshua Redman, and other contemporary greats.

Author : Eric Hobsbawm
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571320112
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jazz Scene written by Eric Hobsbawm and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1955-65 the historian Eric Hobsbawm took the pseudonym 'Francis Newton' and wrote a monthly column for the New Statesman on jazz - music he had loved ever since discovering it as a boy in 1933 ('the year Adolf Hitler took power in Germany'). Hobsbawm's column led to his writing a critical history, The Jazz Scene (1959). This enhanced edition from 1993 adds later writings by Hobsbawm in which he meditates further 'on why jazz is not only a marvellous noise but a central concern for anyone concerned with twentieth-century society and the twentieth-century arts.' 'All the greats are covered in passing (Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday), while further space is given to Duke Ellington, Ray Charles, Thelonious Monk, Mahalia Jackson, and Sidney Bechet ... Perhaps Hobsbawm's tastiest comments are about the business side and work ethics, where his historian's eye strips the jazz scene down to its commercial spine.' Kirkus Reviews

Author : Bruce Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317499425
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jazz and Totalitarianism written by Bruce Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jazz and Totalitarianism examines jazz in a range of regimes that in significant ways may be described as totalitarian, historically covering the period from the Franco regime in Spain beginning in the 1930s to present day Iran and China. The book presents an overview of the two central terms and their development since their contemporaneous appearance in cultural and historiographical discourses in the early twentieth century, comprising fifteen essays written by specialists on particular regimes situated in a wide variety of time periods and places. Interdisciplinary in nature, this compelling work will appeal to students from Music and Jazz Studies to Political Science, Sociology, and Cultural Theory.

Author : David Dicaire
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jazz Musicians of the Early Years, to 1945 written by David Dicaire and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2003-08-26 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the first roughly half century of jazz is really the story of some of the greatest musicians of all time. Scott Joplin, Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, and Ella Fitzgerald all made tremendous contributions, influencing countless jazz musicians and singers. This work provides biographical sketches of the aforementioned artists and many others who made jazz so popular in the first half of the twentieth century. Biographies cover the pioneers of jazz in New Orleans in the late 1890s and early 1900s; the soloists who fueled the Jazz Age in the 1920s; the musicians and bandleaders of the big band and swing era of the late 1920s and early 1930s; and icons from the height of jazz's popularity on through the end of the war. A discography is provided for each artist.

Author : Robert R. Faulkner
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459606035
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Do You Know ... ? written by Robert R. Faulkner and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every night, somewhere in the world, three or four musicians will climb on stage together. Whether the gig is at a jazz club, a bar, or a bar mitzvah, the performance never begins with a note, but with a question. The trumpet player might turn to the bassist and ask, Do you know Body and Soul'? - and from there the subtle craft of playing th...

Author : Dale Chapman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520968212
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jazz Bubble written by Dale Chapman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed by corporate, philanthropic, and governmental organizations as a metaphor for democratic interaction and business dynamics, contemporary jazz culture has a story to tell about the relationship between political economy and social practice in the era of neoliberal capitalism. The Jazz Bubble approaches the emergence of the neoclassical jazz aesthetic since the 1980s as a powerful, if unexpected, point of departure for a wide-ranging investigation of important social trends during this period, extending from the effects of financialization in the music industry to the structural upheaval created by urban redevelopment in major American cities. Dale Chapman draws from political and critical theory, oral history, and the public and trade press, making this a persuasive and compelling work for scholars across music, industry, and cultural studies.

Author : John Jacobus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500080153
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henri Matisse written by John Jacobus and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great pioneering masters of twentieth century art, Henri Matisse was an extremely versatile and productive artist. Although he was an outstanding sculptor and draftsman. he was most widely known and loved for his paintings. And his paintings-vibrant, colourful, and diverse-are the focus of this book. John Jacobus, the Leon E. Williams Professor of Art at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, tells the facinating story of Matisse's life, exploring the relation of his work to the art of the past and showing how it contributed to the art of today. In this volumes forty stunning colour plates the artists most important paintings are reproduced, and each is accompanied by a detailed commentary on the page facing the illustration. With 105 illustarions, 40 in colour.