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Dave Brubeck

Author : Philip Clark
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306921650
Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Dave Brubeck written by Philip Clark and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE DEFINITIVE, INVESTIGATIVE BIOGRAPHY OFJAZZ LEGENDDAVE BRUBECK("TAKE FIVE") In 2003, music journalist Philip Clark was granted unparalleled access to jazz legend Dave Brubeck. Over the course of ten days, he shadowed the Dave Brubeck Quartet during their extended British tour, recording an epic interview with the bandleader. Brubeck opened up as never before, disclosing his unique approach to jazz; the heady days of his "classic" quartet in the 1950s-60s; hanging out with Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, and Miles Davis; and the many controversies that had dogged his 66-yearlong career. Alongside beloved figures like Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra, Brubeck has achieved name recognition beyond jazz. But finding a convincing fit for Brubeck's legacy, one that reconciles his mass popularity with his advanced musical technique, has proved largely elusive. In Dave Brubeck: A Life inTime, Clark provides us with a thoughtful, thorough, and long-overdue biography of an extraordinary man whose influence continues to inform and inspire musicians today. Structured around Clark's extended interview and intensive new research, this book recounts one of the last untold stories of jazz, unearthing the secret history of "Take Five" and many hitherto unknown aspects of Brubeck's early career-and sharing details about his creative relationship with his star saxophonist, Paul Desmond. Woven throughout are cameo appearances from a host of unlikely figures, from Sting, Ray Manzarek of The Doors, and Keith Emerson to John Cage, Leonard Bernstein, Harry Partch, and Edgard Varèse. Each chapter explores a different theme or aspect of Brubeck's life and music, illuminating the core of his artistry and genius. To quote President Obama, as he awarded the musician with a Kennedy Center Honor: "You can't understand America without understanding jazz, and you can't understand jazz without understanding Dave Brubeck."

Dave Brubeck's Time Out

Author : Stephen A. Crist
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190217731
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Dave Brubeck's Time Out written by Stephen A. Crist and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-04 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dave Brubeck's Time Out ranks among the most popular, successful, and influential jazz albums of all time. Released by Columbia in 1959, alongside such other landmark albums as Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and Charles Mingus's Mingus Ah Um, Time Out became one of the first jazz albums to be certified platinum, while its featured track, "Take Five," became the best-selling jazz single of the twentieth century, surpassing one million copies. In addition to its commercial successes, the album is widely recognized as a pioneering endeavor into the use of odd meters in jazz. With its opening track "Blue Rondo à la Turk" written in 9/8, its hit single "Take Five" in 5/4, and equally innovative uses of the more common 3/4 and 4/4 meters on other tracks, Time Out has played an important role in the development of modern jazz. In this book, author Stephen A. Crist draws on nearly fifteen years of archival research to offer the most thorough examination to date of this seminal jazz album. Supplementing his research with interviews with key individuals, including Brubeck's widow Iola and daughter Catherine, as well as interviews conducted with Brubeck himself prior to his passing in 2012, Crist paints a complete picture of the album's origins, creation, and legacy. Couching careful analysis of each of the album's seven tracks within historical and cultural contexts, he offers fascinating insights into the composition and development of some of the album's best-known tunes. From Brubeck's 1958 State Department-sponsored tour, during which he first encountered the Turkish aksak rhythms that would form the basis of "Blue Rondo à la Turk," to the backstage jam session that planted the seeds for "Take Five," Crist sheds an exciting new light on one of the most significant albums in jazz history.

It's about Time: Dave Brubeck (p)

Author : Fred Hall
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610752107
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book It's about Time: Dave Brubeck (p) written by Fred Hall and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Real Ambassadors

Author : Keith Hatschek
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496837789
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book The Real Ambassadors written by Keith Hatschek and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-02-04 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recipient of a 2023 Certificate of Merit for Best Historical Research in Recorded Jazz from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections Keith Hatschek tells the story of three determined artists: Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, and Iola Brubeck and the stand they took against segregation by writing and performing a jazz musical titled The Real Ambassadors. First conceived by the Brubecks in 1956, the musical’s journey to the stage for its 1962 premiere tracks extraordinary twists and turns across the backdrop of the civil rights movement. A variety of colorful characters, from Broadway impresarios to gang-connected managers, surface in the compelling storyline. During the Cold War, the US State Department enlisted some of America’s greatest musicians to serve as jazz ambassadors, touring the world to trumpet a so-called “free society.” Honored as celebrities abroad, the jazz ambassadors, who were overwhelmingly African Americans, returned home to racial discrimination and deferred dreams. The Brubecks used this double standard as the central message for the musical, deploying humor and pathos to share perspectives on American values. On September 23, 1962, The Real Ambassadors’s stunning debut moved a packed arena at the Monterey Jazz Festival to laughter, joy, and tears. Although critics unanimously hailed the performance, it sadly became a footnote in cast members’ bios. The enormous cost of reassembling the star-studded cast made the creation impossible to stage and tour. However, The Real Ambassadors: Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong Challenge Segregation caps this jazz story by detailing how the show was triumphantly revived in 2013 by the Detroit Jazz Festival and in 2014 by Jazz at Lincoln Center. This reaffirmed the musical’s place as an integral part of America’s jazz history and served as an important reminder of how artists’ voices are a powerful force for social change.

French Music and Jazz in Conversation

Author : Deborah Mawer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107037530
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book French Music and Jazz in Conversation written by Deborah Mawer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the historical-cultural interactions between French concert music and American jazz across 1900-65, from both perspectives.

Take Five

Author : Doug Ramsey
Publisher : Parkside Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Take Five written by Doug Ramsey and published by Parkside Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of jazz saxophonist Paul Desmond. Large format with 190 photographs.

Seriously Brubeck

Author : Dave Brubeck
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457462405
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Seriously Brubeck written by Dave Brubeck and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive anthology of Dave Brubeck's serious piano works is a must for every Brubeck fan. These dynamic works for the early advanced to advanced player are enveloped within boundaries of romanticism yet remain cutting-edge. Dramatic concert works that effectively showcase Brubeck's compositional genius are: * Glances (a four-movement suite) * Points on Jazz (an eight-part jazz ballet) * Chromatic Fantasy Sonata (a four-movement contemporary sonata with fugue) * Tritonis (a contemporary concert work full of harmonic creativity) * They All Sang Yankee Doodle (theme and variations) * The Salmon Strikes Back. This folio includes numerous photos.

Follies of God

Author : James Grissom
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101972777
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Follies of God written by James Grissom and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkably illuminating portrait of Tennessee Williams lifts the veil on the heart and soul of his artistic inspiration: the unspoken collaboration between playwright and actor. At a low moment in Williams’s life, he summoned to New Orleans a young twenty-year-old writer, James Grissom, who had written him a letter asking for advice. After a long, intense conversation, Williams sent Grissom on a journey on his behalf to find out if he or his work had mattered to those who had so deeply mattered to him. Among the more than seventy women and men with whom Grissom talked were giants of American theater and film: Lillian Gish, (“the escort who brought me to Blanche”), Jessica Tandy (the original Blanche DuBois on Broadway), Eva Le Gallienne (“She was a stone against which I could rub my talent and feel that it became sharper”), Maureen Stapleton, Julie Harris, Bette Davis, Katherine Hepburn, Elia Kazan, Marlon Brando, John Gielgud, and many more. Follies of God provides dazzling insight into how Williams conjured the dramatic characters and plays that so transformed American theater.

Freedom Sounds

Author : Ingrid Monson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199880883
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Freedom Sounds written by Ingrid Monson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful examination of the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and African Independence on jazz in the 1950s and 60s, Freedom Sounds traces the complex relationships among music, politics, aesthetics, and activism through the lens of the hot button racial and economic issues of the time. Ingrid Monson illustrates how the contentious and soul-searching debates in the Civil Rights, African Independence, and Black Power movements shaped aesthetic debates and exerted a moral pressure on musicians to take action. Throughout, her arguments show how jazz musicians' quest for self-determination as artists and human beings also led to fascinating and far reaching musical explorations and a lasting ethos of social critique and transcendence. Across a broad body of issues of cultural and political relevance, Freedom Sounds considers the discursive, structural, and practical aspects of life in the jazz world in the 1950s and 1960s. In domestic politics, Monson explores the desegregation of the American Federation of Musicians, the politics of playing to segregated performance venues in the 1950s, the participation of jazz musicians in benefit concerts, and strategies of economic empowerment. Issues of transatlantic importance such as the effects of anti-colonialism and African nationalism on the politics and aesthetics of the music are also examined, from Paul Robeson's interest in Africa, to the State Department jazz tours, to the interaction of jazz musicians such Art Blakey and Randy Weston with African and African diasporic aesthetics. Monson deftly explores musicians' aesthetic agency in synthesizing influential forms of musical expression from a multiplicity of stylistic and cultural influences--African American music, popular song, classical music, African diasporic aesthetics, and other world musics--through examples from cool jazz, hard bop, modal jazz, and the avant-garde. By considering the differences between aesthetic and socio-economic mobility, she presents a fresh interpretation of debates over cultural ownership, racism, reverse racism, and authenticity. Freedom Sounds will be avidly read by students and academics in musicology, ethnomusicology, anthropology, popular music, African American Studies, and African diasporic studies, as well as fans of jazz, hip hop, and African American music.

The Definitive Vince Guaraldi

Author :
Publisher : Hal Leonard
ISBN 13 : 1540065103
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Definitive Vince Guaraldi written by and published by Hal Leonard. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Artist Transcriptions). Note-for-note keyboard transcriptions for 31 songs as performed by the famed jazz pianist who composed the songs and themes for the popular Peanuts animated cartoons. Includes: Autumn Leaves * Cast Your Fate to the Wind * Charlie Brown Theme * Christmas Time Is Here * A Day in the Life of a Fool (Manha de Carnaval) * El Matador * The Great Pumpkin Waltz * Linus and Lucy * On Green Dolphin Street * Skating * Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise * and more.

Cloud Atlas (20th Anniversary Edition)

Author : David Mitchell
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307373576
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Cloud Atlas (20th Anniversary Edition) written by David Mitchell and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A timeless, structure-bending classic that explores how actions of individual lives impact the past, present and future—from a postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in fiction Featuring a new afterword by David Mitchell and a new introduction by Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. The novel careens, with dazzling virtuosity, to Belgium in 1931, to the West Coast in the 1970s, to an inglorious present-day England, to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok, and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history. But the story doesn’t end even there. The novel boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. Along the way, David Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky. As wild as a video game, as mysterious as a Zen koan, Cloud Atlas is an unforgettable tour de force that, like its incomparable author, has transcended its cult classic status to become a worldwide phenomenon.

Selections from "A Dave Brubeck Christmas"

Author : Dave Brubeck
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 1457400898
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Selections from "A Dave Brubeck Christmas" written by Dave Brubeck and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1997-08-28 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dave Brubeck, the genius of jazz, provides us with his distinctive renditions of Christmas time favorites. Titles: *Away in a Manger * Cantos Para Pedir las Posadas * "Homecoming" Jingle Bells * Joy to the World * O Tannenbaum * Silent Night * To Us Is Given * What Child Is This (Greensleeves) * Winter Wonderland

Pange Lingua Variations: Parts

Author : Dave Brubeck
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9780769243856
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Pange Lingua Variations: Parts written by Dave Brubeck and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1996-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work beautifully captures the poetic spirit of the original Latin influences of Gregorian chant.

A Bouquet of Numbers and Other Scientific Offerings

Author : Jeremy Bernstein
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9789814759779
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book A Bouquet of Numbers and Other Scientific Offerings written by Jeremy Bernstein and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bouquet of numbers for Olivia -- Was Einstein smart? -- A love story -- Deuteronomy -- An unsolved mystery -- Einstein and his teacher -- Einstein versus Einstein -- Wien's law -- A quantum of education -- Sommerfeld's footnote -- Quantum mechanics -- A song for Molly -- A Schrödinger equation -- The life of a cell -- Who was Hall? -- An encore song for Molly -- Entropy -- A letter to my fellow quantum mechanics

Master Studies

Author : Joe Morello
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Master Studies written by Joe Morello and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives exercises for the development of control and technique for playing drums.

Jazz Icons

Author : Tony Whyton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781107610828
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Jazz Icons written by Tony Whyton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, jazz history is dominated by iconic figures who have taken on an almost God-like status. From Satchmo to Duke, Bird to Trane, these legendary jazzmen form the backbone of the jazz tradition. Jazz icons not only provide musicians and audiences with figureheads to revere but have also come to stand for a number of values and beliefs that shape our view of the music itself. Jazz Icons explores the growing significance of icons in jazz and discusses the reasons why the music's history is increasingly dependent on the legacies of 'great men'. Using a series of individual case studies, Whyton examines the influence of jazz icons through different forms of historical mediation, including the recording, language, image and myth. The book encourages readers to take a fresh look at their relationship with iconic figures of the past and challenges many of the dominant narratives in jazz today.

Duke Ellington

Author : Steven Brower
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847848132
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Duke Ellington written by Steven Brower and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully illustrated and unparalleled in scope, this is an elegant visual celebration befitting the life and work of the "prince of the piano." Duke Ellington was the undisputed father of the American songbook. A prolific writer and consummate performer, Ellington was the author of such standards as "Solitude," "Prelude to a Kiss," and "It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got that Swing)." With a career that spanned five decades, he is one of the defining composers of the Jazz Age. With unprecedented access to the Ellington family archives, this long overdue book illuminates the life and work of an icon of twentieth-century music from his humble beginnings to his long-lasting success. Every stage of Ellington’s career is brought to life, from sepia photographs of his early days in Washington, DC, to colorful playbills from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, his triumphant tours of Europe in the 1930s, and his pioneering explosion of form and genre in the 1940s and beyond. Alongside more than two hundred stunning images, contributions from peers such as Dave Brubeck, Cornel West, Quincy Jones, and Tony Bennett shed light on Ellington’s musical legacy, while the voice of his granddaughter Mercedes reveals the character behind the charisma, and the man behind the piano.