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DownBeat - The Great Jazz Interviews

Author : Frank Alkyer
Publisher : Hal Leonard
ISBN 13 : 147685503X
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (768 download)

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Download or read book DownBeat - The Great Jazz Interviews written by Frank Alkyer and published by Hal Leonard. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). Culled from the DownBeat archives includes in-depth interviews with literally every great jazz artist and personality that ever lived! In honor of its 75th anniversary, DownBeat 's editors have brought together in this one volume the best interviews, insights, and photographs from the illustrious history of the world's top jazz magazine, DownBeat . This anthology includes the greatest of DownBeat 's Jazz Hall of Famers: from early legends like Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Benny Goodman; to bebop heroes like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, and Miles Davis; to truly unique voices like Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Thelonious Monk, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk; to the pioneers of the electric scene like Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, and Joe Zawinul. The Great Jazz Interviews delivers the legends of jazz, talking about America's music and America itself, in their own words. Features classic photos and magazine covers fron Downbeat 's vast archive.

DownBeat - the Great Jazz Interviews (a 75th Anniversary Anthology)

Author : Frank Alkyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781974800766
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book DownBeat - the Great Jazz Interviews (a 75th Anniversary Anthology) written by Frank Alkyer and published by . This book was released on 2009-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Miles Davis

Author : Clarence Bernard Henry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317228391
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Miles Davis written by Clarence Bernard Henry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research and information guide provides a wide range of scholarship on the life, career, and musical legacy of Miles Davis, and is compiled for an interdisciplinary audience of scholars in jazz and popular music, musicology, and cultural studies. It serves as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars sorting through the massive amount of material in the field.

Civic Jazz

Author : Gregory Clark
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022621835X
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Civic Jazz written by Gregory Clark and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jazz is born of collaboration, improvisation, and listening. In much the same way, the American democratic experience is rooted in the interaction of individuals. It is these two seemingly disparate, but ultimately thoroughly American, conceits that Gregory Clark examines in Civic Jazz. Melding Kenneth Burke’s concept of rhetorical communication and jazz music’s aesthetic encounters with a rigorous sort of democracy, this book weaves an innovative argument about how individuals can preserve and improve civic life in a democratic culture. Jazz music, Clark argues, demonstrates how this aesthetic rhetoric of identification can bind people together through their shared experience in a common project. While such shared experience does not demand agreement—indeed, it often has an air of competition—it does align people in practical effort and purpose. Similarly, Clark shows, Burke considered Americans inhabitants of a persistently rhetorical situation, in which each must choose constantly to identify with some and separate from others. Thought-provoking and path-breaking, Clark’s harmonic mashup of music and rhetoric will appeal to scholars across disciplines as diverse as political science, performance studies, musicology, and literary criticism.

Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports

Author : John T. Lysaker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190497327
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports written by John T. Lysaker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Eno's seminal album Ambient 1: Music for Airports continues to fascinate and charm audiences, not only as a masterpiece of ambient music, but as a powerful and transformative work of art. Author John T. Lysaker situates this album in the context of twentieth-century art music, where its ambitions and contributions to avant garde music practice become even more apparent. To appreciate the album's multifaceted character, Lysaker advocates for "prismatic listening," an attentiveness that continually shifts registers in the knowledge that no single approach can grasp the work as a whole. Exploring each of the album's four tracks and their unique sonic arrangements, Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports argues that the album must be approached from at least three angles: as an ambient contribution to lived environments that draws upon cybernetics and the experiments of Erik Satie, as an exploration of what John Cage has termed the "activity of sounds," and as a work of conceptual art that asks us to think freshly about artistic creativity, listening, and the broad ecology of interactions that not only make art possible, but the full range of human meaning. If one listens in this way, Music for Airports becomes a sonic image that blurs the nature-culture distinction and rescues the most interesting concerns of avant-garde music from the social isolation of concert halls and performance spaces.

Cal Tjader

Author : S. Duncan Reid
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476671346
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Cal Tjader written by S. Duncan Reid and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within one of the most complex musical categories yet to surface, Cal Tjader quietly pioneered the genre as a jazz vibraphonist, composer, arranger and bandleader from the 1950s through the 1980s. Reid tells the life story of a humble musician, written in a familiar, conversational tone that reveals Tjader's complex charisma. Tjader left behind a legacy and a labyrinth of influence, attested by his large audience and innovation that would change the course of jazz. Expanded and revised, this intimate biography now includes additional interviews and anecdotes from Tjader's family, bandmates, and community, print research, and rare photographs, presenting a full history of an undervalued musician, as well as a detailed account of the progression of Latin Jazz.

Down Beat

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Down Beat written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contemporary music magazine.

The Miles Davis Reader

Author : Frank Alkyer
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781423430766
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Miles Davis Reader written by Frank Alkyer and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews and features from Downbeat Magazine

John Coltrane

Author : Lewis Porter
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472086436
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book John Coltrane written by Lewis Porter and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Coltrane was a key figure in jazz, a pioneer in world music, and an intensely emotional force. This biography presents interviews with Coltrane, photos, genealogical documents, and musical analysis that offers a fresh view of Coltrane's genius. It explores the events of Coltrane's life and offers an insightful look into his musical practices.

Saxophone Colossus

Author : Aidan Levy
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0306902826
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Saxophone Colossus written by Aidan Levy and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Winner of the American Book Award (2023)** **Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award (2023)** The long-awaited first full biography of legendary jazz saxophonist and composer Sonny Rollins Sonny Rollins has long been considered an enigma. Known as the “Saxophone Colossus,” he is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest jazz improvisers of all time, winning Grammys, the Austrian Cross of Honor, Sweden’s Polar Music Prize and a National Medal of Arts. A bridge from bebop to the avant-garde, he is a lasting link to the golden age of jazz, pictured in the iconic “Great Day in Harlem” portrait. His seven-decade career has been well documented, but the backstage life of the man once called “the only jazz recluse” has gone largely untold—until now. Based on more than 200 interviews with Rollins himself, family members, friends, and collaborators, as well as Rollins’ extensive personal archive, Saxophone Colossus is the comprehensive portrait of this legendary saxophonist and composer, civil rights activist and environmentalist. A child of the Harlem Renaissance, Rollins’ precocious talent landed him on the bandstand and in the recording studio with Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie, or playing opposite Billie Holiday. An icon in his own right, he recorded Tenor Madness, featuring John Coltrane; Way Out West; Freedom Suite, the first civil rights-themed album of the hard bop era; A Night at the Village Vanguard; and the 1956 classic Saxophone Colossus. Yet his meteoric rise to fame was not without its challenges. He served two sentences on Rikers Island and won his battle with heroin addiction. In 1959, Rollins took a two-year sabbatical from recording and performing, practicing up to 16 hours a day on the Williamsburg Bridge. In 1968, he left again to study at an ashram in India. He returned to performing from 1971 until his retirement in 2012. The story of Sonny Rollins—innovative, unpredictable, larger than life—is the story of jazz itself, and Sonny’s own narrative is as timeless and timely as the art form he represents. Part jazz oral history told in the musicians’ own words, part chronicle of one man’s quest for social justice and spiritual enlightenment, this is the definitive biography of one of the most enduring and influential artists in jazz and American history.

Down Beat

Author : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Publisher : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780634006739
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Down Beat written by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation and published by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1999-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring more than 300 pages of classic interviews and photography from the archives of the world's premiere jazz magazine, this special 65th anniversary edition updates Down Beat's popular 60 Years of Jazz book with more great interviews, photography and insights. The history of Down Beat magazine serves as a history of the 20th century as told by the creators of jazz. Down Beat: 65 Years of Jazz serves as a loving tribute to that history and the unforgettable artists who made it, offering rare glimpses into the lives and times of such notables as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Stan Getz, Herbie Hancock, Wynton Marsalis and many, many more. This book is a must-have reference for jazz fans!

To Be, Or Not-- to Bop

Author : Dizzy Gillespie
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816665478
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book To Be, Or Not-- to Bop written by Dizzy Gillespie and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Doubleday, 1979.

Charlie Parker

Author : Carl Woideck
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472037897
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Charlie Parker written by Carl Woideck and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saxophonist Charlie Parker (1920-1955) was one of the most innovative and influential jazz musicians of any era. As one of the architects of modern jazz (often called "bebop"), Charlie Parker has had a profound effect on American music. His music reached such a high level of melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic sophistication that saxophonists and other instrumentalists continue to study it as both a technical challenge and an aesthetic inspiration. This revised edition of Charlie Parker: His Music and Life has been revised throughout to account for new Charlie Parker scholarship and previously unknown Parker recordings that have emerged since the book’s initial publication. The volume opens by considering current research on Parker’s biography, laying out some of the contradictory accounts of his life, and setting the chronology straight where possible. It then focuses on Parker’s music, tracing his artistic evolution and major achievements as a jazz improviser. The musical discussions and transcribed musical examples include timecodes for easy location in recordings—a unique feature to this book.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Arts & Humanities Citation Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.

Quincy Jones

Author : Clarence Bernard Henry
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1628466189
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book Quincy Jones written by Clarence Bernard Henry and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crockett Johnson (born David Johnson Leisk, 1906–1975) and Ruth Krauss (1901–1993) were a husband-and-wife team that created such popular children’s books as The Carrot Seed and How to Make an Earthquake. Separately, Johnson created the enduring children’s classic Harold and the Purple Crayon and the groundbreaking comic strip Barnaby. Krauss wrote over a dozen children’s books illustrated by others, and pioneered the use of spontaneous, loose-tongued kids in children’s literature. Together, Johnson and Krauss’s style—whimsical writing, clear and minimalist drawing, and a child’s point-of-view—is among the most revered and influential in children’s literature and cartooning, inspiring the work of Maurice Sendak, Charles M. Schulz, Chris Van Allsburg, and Jon Scieszka. This critical biography examines their lives and careers, including their separate achievements when not collaborating. Using correspondence, sketches, contemporary newspaper and magazine accounts, archived and personal interviews, author Philip Nel draws a compelling portrait of a couple whose output encompassed children’s literature, comics, graphic design, and the fine arts. Their mentorship of now-famous illustrator Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are) is examined at length, as is the couple’s appeal to adult contemporaries such as Duke Ellington and Dorothy Parker. Defiantly leftist in an era of McCarthyism and Cold War paranoia, Johnson and Krauss risked collaborations that often contained subtly rendered liberal themes. Indeed, they were under FBI surveillance for years. Their legacy of considerable success invites readers to dream and to imagine, drawing paths that take them anywhere they want to go.

DelightfuLee

Author : Jeffery S. McMillan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 047203281X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book DelightfuLee written by Jeffery S. McMillan and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Morgan's return to music in the early to mid-sixties witnessed a tremendous evolution in his playing. Formerly a virtuoso in the model of his idol, Clifford Brown, Morgan brought to his critically acclaimed Blue Note records of the era an emotionally charged, muscular tone, full of poise and control. But it was with the record Sidewinder, recorded in 1963, that Morgan found his greatest fame and commercial success, due to the infectious groove of the title tune. By the time of his death, at thirty-three---murdered in a New York City club by his girlfriend Helen More, during a gig - Morgan had begun a new phase of his career, experimenting with freer-forms of musical expression."--BOOK JACKET.

Oscar Peterson

Author : Gene Lees
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1461741602
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Oscar Peterson written by Gene Lees and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000-08-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging biography of a living musical legend, Oscar Peterson. A man Duke Ellington once called the " maharajah of the piano." Gene Lees carefully builds up the portrait of Peterson, his childhood and what it meant to be be black and talented in Montreal in the 1940s, hist three marriages and six children, his musical partners (Ray Brown, Herb Ellis and Ed Thigpen), his musical friends and colleagues (Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Tatum and Lester Young, amongst others) and the critical controversy and mythology that have long surrounded Peterson. This updated version has a new chapter that covers Peterson's appointment as Chancellor of York University; his receipt of ten honorary doctorates and the Order of Canada; his stroke and partial recovery; the origins and fallout of his cancelled North American tour and much more.