Author : Gene H. Anderson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 47,96 MB
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0190268751
Biography of jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong. This ebook is a static version of an article from Grove Music Online, a continuously updated online resource, offering comprehensive coverage of the world’s music written by leading scholars. For more information, visit www.oxfordmusiconline.com.
Author : Mark Tucker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 37,85 MB
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0190268719
An historical survey of jazz. This ebook is a static version of an article from Grove Music Online, a continuously updated online resource, offering comprehensive coverage of the world’s music written by leading scholars. For more information, visit www.oxfordmusiconline.com.
Author : Geoffrey Block
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 40,70 MB
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0190268743
A survey of the history of musical theater in the United States. This ebook is a static version of an article from Grove Music Online, a continuously updated online resource, offering comprehensive coverage of the world’s music written by leading scholars. For more information, visit www.oxfordmusiconline.com.
Author : Elijah Wald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 15,98 MB
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0190268735
An historical survey of Blues music. This ebook is a static version of an article from Grove Music Online, a continuously updated online resource, offering comprehensive coverage of the world’s music written by leading scholars. For more information, visit www.oxfordmusiconline.com.
Author : Max Harrison
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 45,87 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780720118223
Following the same format as the acclaimed first volume, this selection of the best 250 modern jazz records and CDs places each in its musical context and reviews it in depth. Additionally, full details of personnel, recording dates, and locations are given. Indexes of album titles, track titles, and musicians are included.
Author : Carl Woideck
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 41,85 MB
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0190268786
Biography of jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker. This ebook is a static version of an article from Grove Music Online, a continuously updated online resource, offering comprehensive coverage of the world’s music written by leading scholars. For more information, visit www.oxfordmusiconline.com.
Author : Max Harrison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 48,71 MB
Release : 1999-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0567269698
First published in 1984 and reissued to coincide withthe publication of the second volume, this selection of the 250 best jazz records traces the earliest roots of the music to the beginnings of the modern jazz era. Volume One's focus is on LP collections of 78 rpm originals and nearly every significant musician--both familiar and obscure--of early 20th-century jazz is listed. For each record listed, full details of personnel, recording dates and locations are provided.
Author : Joshua Berrett
Publisher : Schirmer Trade Books
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,53 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Drawing on the rich resources of the Louis Armstrong Archives, jazz historian Joshua Berrett has compiled a wonderful tribute to the multitalented trumpeter, vocalist, and "Ambassador of Jazz". 20 photos.
Author : Charles Hiroshi Garrett
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 2008-10-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 0520254864
Identifying music as a vital site of cultural debate, this book captures the dynamic, contested nature of musical life in the United States. It examines an array of genres - including art music, jazz, popular song, ragtime, and Hawaiian music - and well-known musicians, such as Charles Ives, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and Irving Berlin.
Author : Louis Armstrong
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,67 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780195140460
Louis Armstrong has been the subject of countless biographies and music histories. Yet scant attention has been paid to the remarkable array of writings he left behind. Louis Armstrong: In His Own Words introduces readers to a little-known facet of this master trumpeter, bandleader, and entertainer. Based on extensive research through the Armstrong archives, this important volume includes some of his earliest letters, personal correspondence, autobiographical writings, magazine articles, and essays.
