Visions of Jazz : The First Century

The First Century

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Music, Music Styles, Jazz & Blues, Jazz, Biography & Memoir, Composers & Musicians
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Author: Gary Giddins ISBN: 9780199879533
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Publication: October 22, 1998
Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA Language: English
Author: Gary Giddins
ISBN: 9780199879533
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication: October 22, 1998
Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English

Poised to become a classic of jazz literature Visions of Jazz: The First Century offers seventy-nine chapters illuminating the lives of virtually all the major figures in jazz history. From Louis Armstrong's renegade-style trumpet playing to Sarah Vaughan's operatic crooning and from the swinging elegance of Duke Ellington to the pioneering experiments of Ornette Coleman jazz critic Gary Giddins continually astonishes the reader with his unparalleled insight. Writing with the grace and wit that have endeared his prose to Village Voice readers for decades Giddins also widens the scope of jazz to include such crucial American musicians as Irving Berlin Rosemary Clooney and Frank Sinatra all primarily pop performers who are often dismissed by fans and critics as mere derivatives of the true jazz idiom. And he devotes an entire quarter of this landmark volume to young still-active jazz artists boldly expanding the horizons of jazz--and charting and exploring the music's influences as no other book has done.

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Poised to become a classic of jazz literature Visions of Jazz: The First Century offers seventy-nine chapters illuminating the lives of virtually all the major figures in jazz history. From Louis Armstrong's renegade-style trumpet playing to Sarah Vaughan's operatic crooning and from the swinging elegance of Duke Ellington to the pioneering experiments of Ornette Coleman jazz critic Gary Giddins continually astonishes the reader with his unparalleled insight. Writing with the grace and wit that have endeared his prose to Village Voice readers for decades Giddins also widens the scope of jazz to include such crucial American musicians as Irving Berlin Rosemary Clooney and Frank Sinatra all primarily pop performers who are often dismissed by fans and critics as mere derivatives of the true jazz idiom. And he devotes an entire quarter of this landmark volume to young still-active jazz artists boldly expanding the horizons of jazz--and charting and exploring the music's influences as no other book has done.

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