Jazz category: 919 books
From Birdland to Broadway
Scenes from a Jazz Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 1993
In the 1950s, New York City's Birdland was the center of the world of modern jazz--and a revelation to Bill Crow, a wet-behind-the-ears twenty-two-year-old from Washington State. Located on Broadway between 52nd and 53rd streets, the club named for the incomparable Charlie "Bird" Parker...
Clifford Brown
The Life and Art of the Legendary Jazz Trumpeter
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2001
Although he died in a tragic car accident at twenty-five, Clifford Brown is widely considered one of the most important figures in the history of jazz, a trumpet player who ranks with Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, and Miles Davis, and a leading influence on contemporary jazz musicians. Now, in...
by Burton W. Peretti
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1998
This history of jazz, spanning the twentieth century, is the first to place it within the broad context of American culture. Burton Peretti argues persuasively that this distinctive American music has been a key thread in the tapestry of the nation's culture. The music itself, its players and its...
by Bob Blumenthal
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
The story of the development of jazz and the extraordinary jazz legends who changed the face of music. Do you have a hard time differentiating between hard bop, bebop, and the blues? Need to Know?Jazz puts jazz in its musical and historical context, and gets you started with stories of famous artists...
Jazz Matters
Sound, Place, and Time since Bebop
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
What, where, and when is jazz? To most of us jazz means small combos, made up mostly of men, performing improvisationally in urban club venues. But jazz has been through many changes in the decades since World War II, emerging in unexpected places and incorporating a wide range of new styles. In this...
Puerto Rican Pioneers in Jazz, 1900–1939
Bomba Beats to Latin Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Musicians from Puerto Rico played a substantial role in the development of jazz during the early years of the twentieth century, before and during the years surrounding the Harlem Renaissance. These jazz pioneers, including instrumentalists, composers, and vocalists, were products of the Puerto Rican...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Do you want to know when Duke Ellington was king of The Cotton Club? Have you ever wondered how old Miles Davis was when he got his first trumpet? From birth dates to gig dates and from recordings to television specials, Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler have left no stone unturned in their quest for...
Too Marvelous for Words
The Life and Genius of Art Tatum
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 1995
Art Tatum defined the limits of the possible in jazz piano. Gunther Schuller called Tatum's playing "a marvel of perfection.... His deep-in-the-keys full piano sonority, the tone and touch control in pyrotechnical passages...are miracles of performance." Whitney Balliett wrote "no pianist...
Fashion and Jazz
Dress, Identity and Subcultural Improvisation
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Born in the late 19th century, jazz gained mainstream popularity during a volatile period of racial segregation and gender inequality. It was in these adverse conditions that jazz performers discovered the power of dress as a visual tool used to defy mainstream societal constructs, shaping a new fashion...
People Get Ready
The Future of Jazz Is Now!
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
In People Get Ready, musicians, scholars, and journalists write about jazz since 1965, the year that Curtis Mayfield composed the famous civil rights anthem that gives this collection its title. The contributors emphasize how the political consciousness that infused jazz in the 1960s and early 1970s...
Shaping Jazz
Cities, Labels, and the Global Emergence of an Art Form
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
There are over a million jazz recordings, but only a few hundred tunes have been recorded repeatedly. Why did a minority of songs become jazz standards? Why do some songs--and not others--get rerecorded by many musicians? Shaping Jazz answers this question and more, exploring the underappreciated...
Wisconsin Riffs
Jazz Profiles from the Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2018
An extensive, upbeat compilation of Wisconsin’s jazz musicians
Although New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago are often considered the epicenters of American jazz, this extensive, upbeat compilation of jazz musician biographies details Wisconsin’s rich association the genre since its...
Growing up with Jazz
Twenty Four Musicians Talk About Their Lives and Careers
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2005
A jazz writer for three decades, W. Royal Stokes has a special talent for capturing the initial spark that launches a musician's career. In Growing Up With Jazz , he has interviewed twenty-four instrumentalists and singers who talk candidly about the early influences that started them on the road...
The Velvet Lounge
On Late Chicago Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2005
Troubled urban neighborhoods and jazz-club havens were the backdrop of Gerald Majer's life growing up in sixties and seventies Chicago. The Velvet Lounge, an original hybrid of memoir, biography, and musical description, reflects this history and pursues a sustained meditation on jazz along with a...