Author : John Swenson
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 18,88 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Music
ISBN :
Here are sixty-odd years of recorded jazz brillaintly reviewed in one essential source. Covering more than 4,000 currently available jazz albums, this long-needed work will remain the standard reference in the field for years to come.
Author : Brian Morton
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1113 pages
File Size : 12,41 MB
Release : 2010-11-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 0141959002
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings is firmly established as the world's leading guide to recorded jazz, a mine of fascinating information and a source of insightful - often wittily trenchant - criticism. This is something rather different: Brian Morton (who taught American history at UEA) has picked out the 1000 best recordings that all jazz fans should have and shows how they tell the history of the music and with it the history of the twentieth century. He has completely revised his and Richard Cook's entries and reassessed each artist's entry for this book. The result is an endlessly browsable companion that will prove required reading for aficionados and jazz novices alike. 'It's the kind of book that you'll yank off the shelf to look up a quick fact and still be reading two hours later' Fortune 'Part jazz history, part jazz Karma Sutra with Cook and Morton as the knowledgeable, urbane, wise and witty guides ... This is one of the great books of recorded jazz; the other guides don't come close' Irish Times
Author : Brian Rust
Publisher :
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 29,54 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Jazz
ISBN :
Author : Frederick Cohen
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 36,1 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Sound recording industry
ISBN :
Author : Leo T. Sullivan
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 10,67 MB
Release : 2018-09-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780764355868
Birdland was a legendary nightclub in New York City and, from 1949-65, was the scene for the greatest jazz music and musicians in the world. This illustrated book offers a history of this legendary jazz club, and presents the greats who played its stage in capsule biographies, vintage photos, and rare memorabilia. Named after legendary jazz saxophonist Charlie "Yardbird" Parker, the club showcased memorable double and triple bills lasting until dawn. Many classic live recordings were made at "The Jazz Corner of the World," such as the "A Night at Birdland" by the Art Blakey Quintet, "Basie at Birdland," and "Coltrane, Live at Birdland." Birdland established itself as the one place that every jazz musician had to play. Greats such as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Count Basie, John Coltrane, Art Tatum, Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Clifford Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz, Lester Young, Billie Holiday, Oscar Peterson, and Sonny Rollins, to name only a few, graced its stage.
Author : Lorraine Gordon
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 12,21 MB
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1617749168
Jazz fans get the inside story of New York's legendary club. At age 83 Lorraine Gordon is a jazz icon who has lived more than a few lives: downtown bohemian uptown grande dame music business pioneer wife lover mother and finally at a point when m
Author : Neal Umphred
Publisher :
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 24,67 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Popular music
ISBN :
Author : Nat Hentoff
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 29,81 MB
Release : 2009-04-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 078672854X
Writing in a passionate and streetwise style all his own, Nat Hentoff transports us into the diverse worlds of musicians that hold one thing in common: America. In over sixty pieces Hentoff has assembled a mosaic that creates a vivid picture of the music scene as it leaps into the twenty-first century. From sweeping surveys of the roots of American music to vivid assessments of individual performers (including John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Joe Williams, Doc Pomus, Duke Ellington, Willie Nelson, and many more) Hentoff demonstrates once again why he is lauded as "a critic par excellence" (Publishers Weekly). American Music Is compiles the best of his essays into a potent reader, collecting his most illuminating writing on a broad range of topics. For those who love jazz, blues, country, gospel, or folk, American Music Is provides eloquent and powerful insights. For those who love all of them, it is required reading.
Author : Max Harrison
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 50,18 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 : Barry Kernfeld
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 1996-01-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780631195528
The first edition of the Guide d was widely praised for identifying 150 key recordings that should form the basis of any jazz collection, backed up by a series of detailed critical commentaries unrivalled in any competing book of its kind for their depth and critical insight. This new edition broadens the scope of the Guide d, looking at recent developments and styles and suggesting almost 250 discs as the core collection.
