Jazz Masters Of The 30s
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Jazz Masters Of The 30s
Author | : Rex Stewart |
Publsiher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 1982-03-22 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0306801590 |
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This is the only jazz history written by a musician that is not strictly autobiographical. Rex Stewart, who played trumpet and cornet with Fletcher Henderson and Duke Ellington, knew personally all the giants of jazz in the 1930s and thus his judgments on their achievements come with unique authority and understanding. As a good friend, he never minimizes their foibles; yet he writes of them with affection and generosity. Chapters on Fletcher Henderson, Coleman Hawkins, Red Norvo, Art Tatum, Big Sid Catlett, Benny Carter, and Louis Armstrong mix personal anecdotes with critical comments that only a fellow jazz musician could relate. A section on Ellington and the Ellington orchestra profiles Ben Webster, Harry Carney, Tricky Sam Nanton, Barney Bigard, and Duke himself, with whom Rex Stewart was a barber, chef, poker opponent, and third trumpet. Finally, he recounts the stories of legendary jam sessions between Jelly Roll Morton, Willie the Lion Smith, and James P. Johnson, all vying for the unofficial title of king of Harlem stride piano. It was the decade of swing and no one saw it, heard it, or wrote about it better than Rex Stewart.
Jazz Masters Of The Thirties
Author | : Rex Stewart |
Publsiher | : Da Capo Press, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1980-04-21 |
Genre | : Jazz |
ISBN | : UCAL:B4325580 |
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Jazz Masters of the Thirties
Author | : Rex William Stewart |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Jazz |
ISBN | : OCLC:1066097673 |
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The Best of Jazz
Author | : Humphrey Lyttelton |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Jazz |
ISBN | : UCSC:32106005442212 |
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Jazz Masters of the Twenties
Author | : Richard Hadlock |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:993508145 |
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Levensbeschrijvingen van een elftal Amerikaanse jazzgrootheden die hun stempel drukten op de ontwikkeling van de jazz in de periode 1920-1930.
The Jazz Masters
Author | : Peter C. Zimmerman |
Publsiher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2021-11-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781496837417 |
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The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight is a celebration of jazz and the men and women who created and transformed it. In the twenty-one conversations contained in this engaging and highly accessible book, we hear from the musicians themselves, in their own words, direct and unfiltered. Peter Zimmerman’s interviewing technique is straightforward. He turns on a recording device, poses questions, and allows his subjects to improvise, similar to the way the musicians do at concerts and in recording sessions. Topics range from their early days, their struggles and victories, to the impact the music has had on their own lives. The interviews have been carefully edited for sense and clarity, without changing any of the musicians’ actual words. Peter Zimmerman tirelessly sought virtuosi whose lives span the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The reader is rewarded with an intimate look into the past century’s extraordinary period of creative productivity. The oldest two interview subjects were born in 1920 and all are professional musicians who worked in jazz for at least five decades, with a few enjoying careers as long as seventy-five years. These voices reflect some seventeen hundred years of accumulated experience yielding a chronicle of incredible depth and scope. The focus on musicians who are now emeritus figures is deliberate. Some of them are now in their nineties; six have passed since 2012, when Zimmerman began researching The Jazz Masters. Five of them have already received the NEA’s prestigious Jazz Masters award: Sonny Rollins, Clark Terry, Yusef Lateef, Jimmy Owens, and most recently, Dick Hyman. More undoubtedly will one day, and the balance are likewise of compelling interest. Artists such as David Amram, Charles Davis, Clifford Jordan, Valery Ponomarev, and Sandy Stewart, to name a few, open their hearts and memories and reveal who they are as people. This book is a labor of love celebrating the vibrant style of music that Dizzy Gillespie once described as “our native art form.” Zimmerman’s deeply knowledgeable, unabashed passion for jazz brings out the best in the musicians. Filled with personal recollections and detailed accounts of their careers and everyday lives, this highly readable, lively work succeeds in capturing their stories for present and future generations. An important addition to the literature of music, The Jazz Masters goes a long way toward “setting the record straight.”
Jazz Masters in Transition 1957 69
Author | : Martin Williams |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : African American musicians |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105041497624 |
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"Selected chronicles ... [including] reviews, interviews, brief profiles, and narratives of such events as rehearsals, recording dates, television tapings, and evenings in night clubs. All were originally written during the decade under examination ..."--Preface.
Basin Street to Harlem
Author | : Humphrey Lyttelton |
Publsiher | : Crescendo |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Jazz |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105038867920 |
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"The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history. This one law so dramatically altered American society that, looking back, it seems preordained--as Everett Dirksen, the GOP leader in the Senate and a key supporter of the bill, said, "no force is more powerful than an idea whose time has come." But there was nothing predestined about the victory: a phalanx of powerful senators, pledging to "fight to the death" for segregation, launched the longest filibuster in American history to defeat it. The bill's passage has often been credited to the political leadership of President Lyndon Johnson, or the moral force of Martin Luther King. Yet as Clay Risen shows, the battle for the Civil Rights Act was a story much bigger than those two men. It was a broad, epic struggle, a sweeping tale of unceasing grassroots activism, ringing speeches, backroom deal-making and finally, hand-to-hand legislative combat. The larger-than-life cast of characters ranges from Senate lions like Mike Mansfield and Strom Thurmond to NAACP lobbyist Charles Mitchell, called "the 101st senator" for his Capitol Hill clout, and industrialist J. Irwin Miller, who helped mobilize a powerful religious coalition for the bill. The "idea whose time had come" would never have arrived without pressure from the streets and shrewd leadership in Congress--all captured in Risen's vivid narrative. This critical turning point in American history has never been thoroughly explored in a full-length account. Now, New York Times editor and acclaimed author Clay Risen delivers the full story, in all its complexity and drama"--