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Autobiography of an Unknown Jazz Trumpeter

Author : Tracey D. Hooker
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781535408691
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Autobiography of an Unknown Jazz Trumpeter written by Tracey D. Hooker and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-read for music lovers and musicians alike, "Autobiography of a Jazz Trumpeter" is the story of Tracey D. Hooker and his journey from the innocence of his boyhood home in rural Vermont to becoming a Grammy Award winning trumpeter, music teacher and bandleader. Travel with him around the world during his 22-year career as a trumpeter with the U.S. Navy Music Program experiencing adventure, camaraderie, friendships and insights that develop as a part of the triumphs and failures in his life. Become part of "the gig" when, as Hooker describes it, "At some point in the evening the process of reciprocity begins to develop. Shared energy between the audience and the performers becomes evident. Your lover, your companion, your mistress is the music you've dedicated your life to. With the etudes, scales, the countless hours of practice, you can finally express your emancipated soul in total freedom." Music is transformative and Hooker describes from the inside out how one unknown trumpeter found healing through a life as a jazz musician.

Clifford Brown

Author : Nick Catalano
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199760950
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Clifford Brown written by Nick Catalano and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-24 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Clifford Brown: The Life and Art of the Legendary Jazz Trumpeter, Nick Catalano gives us the first major biography of this musical giant. Based on extensive interviews with Clifford Brown's family, friends, and fellow jazz musicians, here is a fascinating portrait of a remarkable musician. Catalano depicts Brown's early life, showing how he developed a facility and dazzling technique that few jazz players have ever equaled. We read of his meteoric rise in Philadelphia, where he played with many of the leading jazz players of the 1950s, including Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker; his tour of Europe with Lionel Hampton, which made him famous; and his formation of the Brown-Roach Quintet with prominent drummer Max Roach--one of the most popular hard bop combos of the day. Catalano also shows that Brown was a remarkable individual--he grew up in a middle-class African-American home in Wilmington, Delaware, attended college, was a skilled mathematician, and had wide cultural interests. Moreover, in an era when most jazz players were either alcoholics or addicts, Brown was clean-living and drug free. Indeed, he became a role model for musicians who were struggling with drugs and had great influence in this area with one prominent colleague, tenor sax player Sonny Rollins. Clifford Brown not only provides a colorful account of Brown's life, but also features an informed analysis of his major recorded solos, highlighting Brown's originality and revealing why he remains a great influence on trumpet players today. It is a book that anyone with a serious interest in jazz will want to own.

Early Jazz Trumpet Legends

Author : Larry Kemp
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480976377
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Early Jazz Trumpet Legends written by Larry Kemp and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Jazz Trumpet Legends By: Larry Kemp Early Jazz Trumpet Legends is an examination of the lives and contributions of jazz trumpeters born before 1925. Included are Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Harry James, Bix Beiderbecke, Bunny Berigan, and Roy Eldridge along with scores of other men and women who created jazz with a trumpet. This is an essential guide for the student of jazz, those interested in history, and those who just like to read entertaining true stories about the most colorful people. Early Jazz Trumpet Legends is the most comprehensive book on the subject. More than 320 trumpeters are discussed. There is a glossary of jazz terminology and a Forward explaining the nature of a trumpet, the nature of jazz, and what a legend is along with background information about New Orleans during the first 30 years of jazz. The scholarship involved is impeccable, while the text reads as easily as a novel. Those who travel to New Orleans will find the information in this book extremely useful to understand the soul of this exotic city and its role as the incubator of jazz. An ideal gift for any musician or lover of jazz. Early Jazz Trumpet Legends is the first of three volumes organized chronologically by date of birth. The second volume, Modern Jazz Trumpet Legends covers those born between 1925 and 1940 and the third volume, Current Jazz Trumpet Legends, covers those born after 1940.

Ride, Red, Ride

Author : John Chilton
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826447449
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Ride, Red, Ride written by John Chilton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-06-27 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first biography of jazz trumpeter and singer, Henry 'Red' Allen, long regarded as Louis Armstrong's chief rival. Both men were born in New Orleans and shared an African-American heritage, but their social backgrounds were quite different. Whereas Armstrong made many best-selling records, Allen never achieved hit parade success but gradually built up a durable international following--today, dozens of his CDs are widely available. As a close friend, Chilton reveals Allen's personality, as well as analyzing his magnificent recordings. The intriguing contrast between Allen's spectacular performance showmanship and his off-stage reticence is dealt with, and fascinating details of Allen's early life in New Orleans and on the Mississippi riverboats are brought to life. Allen's popularity has increased each year since his death in 1967; his latter day tours of Europe are still regarded as being among the most successful by any visiting jazz musician. The background details of all the periods of Allen's varied career are dealt with, including his work with King Oliver, Luis Russell, Fletcher Henderson, Kid Ory, and Louis Armstrong. The book also contains a selected discography.

Clark

Author : Clark Terry
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520287517
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Clark written by Clark Terry and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compelling from cover to cover, this is the story of one of the most recorded and beloved jazz trumpeters of all time. With unsparing honesty and a superb eye for detail, Clark Terry, born in 1920, takes us from his impoverished childhood in St. Louis, Missouri, where jazz could be heard everywhere, to the smoke-filled small clubs and carnivals across the Jim Crow South where he got his start, and on to worldwide acclaim. Terry takes us behind the scenes of jazz history as he introduces scores of legendary greats—Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, Dinah Washington, Doc Severinsen, Ray Charles, Thelonious Monk, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Coleman Hawkins, Zoot Sims, and Dianne Reeves, among many others. Terry also reveals much about his own personal life, his experiences with racism, how he helped break the color barrier in 1960 when he joined the Tonight Show band on NBC, and why—at ninety years old—his students from around the world still call and visit him for lessons.

KD

Author : Dave Oliphant
Publisher : Wings Press (TX)
ISBN 13 : 9781609402143
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book KD written by Dave Oliphant and published by Wings Press (TX). This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Current Jazz Trumpet Legends

Author : Larry Kemp
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480977276
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Current Jazz Trumpet Legends written by Larry Kemp and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current Jazz Trumpet Legends By: Larry Kemp Current Jazz Trumpet Legends, Volume 3 in the Jazz Trumpet Legends series, is an examination of the lives and contributions of jazz trumpeters born after July 1, 1938. Included are Lee Morgan, Bobby Shew, Lew Soloff, Woody Shaw, Arturo Sandoval, Wynton Marsalis, along with scores of other men and women who created jazz with a trumpet. This is an essential guide for the student of jazz, those interested in history, and those who just like to read entertaining true stories about the most colorful people. Current Jazz Trumpet Legends is the most comprehensive book on the subject. More than 340 trumpeters are discussed. There is a listing of female trumpeters and a listing of men whose first names might lead you to think they are female, but they aren’t. There is an index of trumpeters discussed in this volume and an index of all trumpeters in the three volume series. The book concludes with a list of people whose help is acknowledged. The scholarship involved is impeccable, while the text reads as easily as a novel. Current Jazz Trumpet Legends is the third of three volumes of profiles of jazz trumpeters organized chronologically by date of birth. The first volume, Early Jazz Trumpet covers those trumpeters born before September 1, 1924. The second volume, Modern Jazz Trumpet Legends covers those born between 1925 and July 1, 1938. The third volume, Current Jazz Trumpet Legends, covers those born after July 1, 1938.

Miles Davis

Author : Ron Frankl
Publisher : Facts On File
ISBN 13 : 9780791021576
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Miles Davis written by Ron Frankl and published by Facts On File. This book was released on 1995 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the noted jazz trumpeter who got his start with Charlie Parker's quintet and gained fame performing at the first Newport Jazz Festival in 1955.

Trumpet Blues

Author : Peter J. Levinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190283173
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Trumpet Blues written by Peter J. Levinson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swing is back in style, and with it a renewed interest in the Big Band Era. And few players dominated that era more than Harry James, whose soaring trumpet solos and romantic hit tunes influenced popular music for a generation. Now, Peter J. Levinson, who knew Harry James personally, has written a revealing biography of this jazz icon, based on nearly 200 interviews with musicians and friends. Harry James led a truly colorful life, and in Trumpet Blues Levinson captures it all. Beginning with James's childhood in a traveling circus, we follow the young trumpeter's meteoric rise in the 1930s and witness his electrifying performances with the Benny Goodman Orchestra. We see how James formed his own band in 1939, an incubator for many pop music stars of the 1940s and '50s, including Frank Sinatra, Connie Haines, Dick Haymes, Helen Forrest, and Kitty Kallen. Combined with James's superb musicianship, peerless trumpet technique and talented sidemen, this stellar group dominated the war years and the immediate post-war period. And James himself, especially after his marriage to film goddess Betty Grable, became one of America's most famous personalities and lived like true Hollywood royalty. Levinson describes their twenty-two-year marriage with insight and sympathy. But he shows how James's marriage--and his triumphant late-1950s comeback in Nevada's casinos--were slowly undermined by his penchant for compulsive gambling, womanizing, and alcoholism. He gives us the inside story of James's sybaritic life style, and probes the profound psychological reasons for James's destructive behavior. The first biography ever written on Harry James, Trumpet Blues is a scintillating portrait of Swing's brightest star--his life, his loves, and the music that defined an era.

Sam Noto, a Life in Jazz

Author : Joey Giambra
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781723477171
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (771 download)

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Download or read book Sam Noto, a Life in Jazz written by Joey Giambra and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many who will read these pages and see the word "sideman" will know its meaning, and many will not. In the 1930s, 40s, and 50s "sidemen" were musicians: drums, piano, bass, guitar, reed, or brass players in jazz bands or jazz orchestras of the day. Each was chosen to garner a universal blend. Some became soloists in those musical aggregations, as did Sam Noto, a one-time sideman and jazz trumpeter born in Buffalo, New York, on April 17, 1930, who became an international trumpet star.

Trumpet Story

Author : Bill Coleman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349099813
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Trumpet Story written by Bill Coleman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Coleman was one of the most important jazz trumpeters of the swing era. Born in France in 1909, he moved to New York in 1927. Over the next few years he made his name playing with many of the top bandleaders, including Luis Russell, Benny Carter and Fats Waller. In 1935 he returned to France and performed with Lucky Millinder. He spent the war years in New York, playing with, among others, Andy Kirk, Mary Lou Williams, Sy Oliver and Billy Kyle, before returning to Paris in 1941 to lead his own band. Bill Coleman toured widely and the book contains fascinating anecdotes about his trips to India, Egypt, the Philippines and Japan. He died in 1981 and Trumpet Story was published in French in that year.

Roy Eldridge, Little Jazz Giant

Author : John Chilton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Continuum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roy Eldridge, Little Jazz Giant written by John Chilton and published by Bloomsbury Continuum. This book was released on 2002-08-05 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography charts the life and career of the trumpeter, Roy Eldridge. New light is shed on the various occasions when Eldridge unwillingly became entangled with gangsters, his uneven working relationships and the hurdles he had to overcome when working in all-white ensembles.

Buck Clayton's Jazz World

Author : Buck Clayton
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781871478556
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (785 download)

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Download or read book Buck Clayton's Jazz World written by Buck Clayton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1995-11-27 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. One morning in Parsons, Kansas -- 2. Los Angeles and the West Coast -- 3. Shanghai -- 4. I never heard such swinging music -- 5. Basie -- 6. In Uncle Sam's army -- 7. JATP and a trip to Europe -- 8. A new phase in my career -- 9. From New York to Australia -- 10. Humphrey Lyttelton and my English tours -- 11. Health problems -- 12. Still swinging -- Chronological discography by Bob Weir -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z

The Music and Life of Theodore "Fats" Navarro

Author : Leif Bo Petersen
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810867222
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Music and Life of Theodore "Fats" Navarro written by Leif Bo Petersen and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-08-24 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Music and Life of Theodore 'Fats' Navarro: Infatuation is the first comprehensive study of the jazz trumpeter Theodore 'Fats' Navarro. It provides biographical and discographical information on this talented musician, whose premature death from tuberculosis at 26 robbed the jazz world of his brilliance. Through an analysis of his recorded legacy, this book offers new perspectives on Navarro's role in the history and emergence of Bebop. Through years of study and collecting ephemera, some of which is reprinted here, Leif Bo Petersen and Theo Rehak depict an inclusive history of Navarro and his music. Their information is based on interviews with musicians and people in the music business, contemporary newspaper and magazine articles, and the music itself, which has not been commonly known or described until now. The book features images, musical examples, and depictions of Navarro's recordings, and it provides several appendixes, including explanations of contemporary recording techniques and discographical terms, lists of Navarro's recordings and compositions, and a chronological overview of Navarro's performances, recording sessions, and engagements. Complete with a comprehensive list of sources and a full index, this volume presents a host of new and useful information for anyone interested in jazz and its history.

The Miles Davis Companion

Author : Gary Carner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780711966321
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (663 download)

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Download or read book The Miles Davis Companion written by Gary Carner and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the life and career of the jazz trumpeter from the 1950s to the 1990s. The book includes his often controversial opinions and charts his transformation from jazz musician to cultural icon.

Blowing My Own Trumpet

Author : Kenny Ball
Publisher : Blake Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781904034834
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Blowing My Own Trumpet written by Kenny Ball and published by Blake Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenny Ball is arguably the most successful jazz trumpet player this side of the Atlantic. His autobiography is told with all the style, wit, and passion that you would expect of this well-loved star. It includes wonderful stories of his life on the road with such giants of the music world as Louis Armstrong.

Lee Morgan

Author : Tom Perchard
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Lee Morgan written by Tom Perchard and published by Equinox Publishing (UK). This book was released on 2006 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the events of the jazz trumpeter, Lee Morgan's life not just as items of biography, but also as points of departure for historical investigations that aim to situate the musician and his contemporaries in changing aesthetic, social and economic contexts. This work draws on many original interviews with Morgan's colleagues and friends.