The Jazz Makers
Author : Nat Shapiro
Publisher : London : Peter Davies
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 32,6 MB
Release : 1957
Category : African American musicians
ISBN :
Author : Nat Shapiro
Publisher : London : Peter Davies
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 32,6 MB
Release : 1957
Category : African American musicians
ISBN :
Author : Alyn Shipton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 28,48 MB
Release : 2002-02-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0195126890
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 : Nat Shapiro
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 30,84 MB
Release : 1979-08-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Nat Hentoff
Publisher :
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,45 MB
Release : 1958
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Nat Shapiro (ed)
Publisher :
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 35,3 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Jazz
ISBN :
Author : Robert George Reisner
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 41,96 MB
Release : 1977-04-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : David Dicaire
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 19,83 MB
Release : 2010-10-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 0786485566
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 : Eric Hobsbawm
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 13,33 MB
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 0571320112
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
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 24,5 MB
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 1317499425
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 : Dale Chapman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 11,80 MB
Release : 2018-03-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 0520968212
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.