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Author : Wayne Enstice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780306805455
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Jazz Spoken Here written by Wayne Enstice and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wayne Enstice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780807117606
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Jazz Spoken Here written by Wayne Enstice and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jazz Spoken Here is a collection of informal yet revealing interviews with twenty-two major figures from the world of jazz. Compiled by Wayne Enstice and Paul Rubin, two jazz enthusiasts who ask the kinds of questions fans of the music everywhere would love to pose to their favorite musicians, the book gets to the heart of the jazz life. Dave Brubeck, Ray Bryant, Mercer Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Chico Hamilton, Henry Threadgill, and sixteen others reflect on their early influences and personal visions, the jazz tradition, and the politics of survival in a country that has historically ignored one of its indigenous art forms. Especially valuable are the interviews with those who have died in the recent past: Art Blakey, Bill Evans, Gil Evans, Charles Mingus, Sonny Stitt, and Gabor Szabo. The musicians represent diverse generations and philosophies and a full range of styles, from swing and mainstream to bop, fusion, and free-jazz. They speak with eloquence about their work and with candor about the current state of music in America. All the performers emerge as natural story-tellers. Through these interviews readers will gain a sense of what the life of a jazz musician is truly like as well as a profound respect for the musicians' rock-solid commitment to their craft - a commitment made all the more remarkable because of the neglect and bigotry with which many of them have had to contend throughout their careers. Each interview is preceded by a brief biographical introduction and concludes with a selected discography. Musicians and nonmusicians alike - anyone, in fact, who cares about American music - should read Jazz Spoken Here. This is music history of the very best kind - the kindthat makes readers want to seek out the music.
Author : Wayne Enstice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book JAZZ SPOKEN HERE;BY...& PAUL RUBIN. written by Wayne Enstice and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roy Wilder
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820320293
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book You All Spoken Here written by Roy Wilder and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1998-09-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A marvelously funny piece of Southern humor and a language-lover's delight, this book preserves and explains the South's linguistic heritage with some 3,000 specimens of the region's most picturesque, metaphorical, and gloriously inventive speech.
Author : Mark Abley
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307368238
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Spoken Here written by Mark Abley and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether on the other side of the world or in our own backyard, languages everywhere are fading into oblivion. Mark Abley explores what the human family stands to lose — and explains why some endangered languages continue to thrive. Within the next couple of generations, most of the world’s 6000 languages will vanish, due mainly to the unstoppable tide of English. With an open mind and a well-worn passport, award-winning journalist and poet Mark Abley tells entertaining and vital stories about why languages matter. From Oklahoma to Provence, aboriginal Australia to Baffin Island, the cultures are radically different, but the problems of shrinking linguistic and cultural richness are painfully similar. Abley’s investigation provides a stunning glimpse of the beauty and intricacies of languages like Yiddish and Yuchi, Mohawk and Manx, Inuktitut and Provençal. More importantly, it offers a sympathetic and memorable portrait of the people who still speak languages under threat. When a language dies out, gone too are stories that have been told for centuries, unique ways of seeing the world, and perhaps even ways of solving problems both large and small. Abley believes we must see languages as abundant sources of richness, wonder and usefulness. And he shows that hope still exists: that the determination of even one person can revive a whole language and its culture, in the process creating something new, changing and alive — exactly what languages do best.
Author : Alyn Shipton
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1632892332
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)
Download or read book The Art of Jazz written by Alyn Shipton and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Jazz explores how the expressionism and spontaneity of jazz spilled onto its album art, posters, and promotional photography, and even inspired standalone works of fine art. Everyone knows jazz is on the cutting edge of music, but how much do you know about its influence in the visual arts? With album covers that took inspiration from the avant-garde, jazz's primarily African American musicians and their producers sought to challenge and inspire listeners both musically and visually. Arranged chronologically, each chapter covers a key period in jazz history, from the earliest days of the twentieth century to today's postmodern jazz. Chapters begin with substantive introductions and present the evolution of jazz imagery in all its forms, mirroring the shifting nature of the music itself. With two authoritative features per chapter and over 300 images, The Art of Jazz is a significant contribution to the literature of this intrepid art form.
Author : Dottie Dodgion
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252052471
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Lady Swings written by Dottie Dodgion and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dottie Dodgion is a jazz drummer who played with the best. A survivor, she lived an entire lifetime before she was seventeen. Undeterred by hardships she defied the odds and earned a seat as a woman in the exclusive men’s club of jazz. Her dues-paying path as a musician took her from early work with Charles Mingus to being hired by Benny Goodman at Basin Street East on her first day in New York. From there she broke new ground as a woman who played a “man’s instrument” in first-string, all-male New York City jazz bands. Her inspiring memoir talks frankly about her music and the challenges she faced, and shines a light into the jazz world of the 1960s and 1970s. Vivid and always entertaining, The Lady Swings tells Dottie Dodgion's story with the same verve and straight-ahead honesty that powered her playing. A Variety Best Music Book of 2021
Author : Wayne Enstice
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253344360
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (533 download)
Download or read book Jazzwomen written by Wayne Enstice and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers interviews of twenty-one women who are respected in the male-dominated world of jazz, including pianist Marilyn Crispell and singer-pianist Diana Krall.
Author : Meta DuEwa Jones
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252036212
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Muse is Music written by Meta DuEwa Jones and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging, ambitiously interdisciplinary study traces jazz's influence on African American poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to contemporary spoken word poetry. Examining established poets such as Langston Hughes, Ntozake Shange, and Nathaniel Mackey as well as a generation of up-and-coming contemporary writers and performers, Meta DuEwa Jones highlights the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality within the jazz tradition and its representation in poetry. Applying prosodic analysis to emphasize the musicality of African American poetic performance, she examines the gendered meanings evident in collaborative performances and in the criticism, images, and sounds circulating within jazz cultures. Jones also considers poets who participated in contemporary venues for black writing such as the Dark Room Collective and the Cave Canem Foundation, including Harryette Mullen, Elizabeth Alexander, and Carl Phillips. Incorporating a finely honed discussion of the Black Arts Movement, the poetry-jazz fusion of the late 1950s, and slam and spoken word performance milieus such as Def Poetry Jam, she focuses on jazz and hip hop-influenced performance artists including Tracie Morris, Saul Williams, and Jessica Care Moore. Through attention to cadence, rhythm, and structure, The Muse is Music fills a gap in literary scholarship by attending to issues of gender in jazz and poetry and by analyzing recordings of poets both with and without musical accompaniment. Applying the methodology of textual close reading to a critical "close listening" of American poetry's resonant soundscape, Jones's analyses include exploring the formal innovation and queer performance of Langston Hughes's recorded collaboration with jazz musicians, delineating the relationship between punctuation and performance in the post-soul John Coltrane poem, and closely examining jazz improvisation and hip-hop stylization. An elaborate articulation of the connections between jazz, poetry and spoken word, and gender, The Muse Is Music offers valuable criticism of specific texts and performances and a convincing argument about the shape of jazz and African-American poetic performance in the contemporary era.
Author : Sammy Stein
Publisher : 8th House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781926716558
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Women in Jazz: The Women, The Legends & Their Fight written by Sammy Stein and published by 8th House Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about women in jazz. It charts their journeys, celebrates their presence, hears their voices, wonders at their prowess and revels in their being. We hear from female agents, arrangers, composers, musicians, PR people, radio hosts, record label managers, singers, writers and more. These are their stories; their views of jazz and how they see the future. The established performers share their years of experience whilst those newer to jazz reflect on observations and changes they have seen. Containing interviews and first-hand accounts, this book is witness to the generosity, profundity and positivity with which women have responded and the energy they have put into their lives in overcoming challenges.
Author : Geoff Emerick
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110121824X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Here, There and Everywhere written by Geoff Emerick and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-03-16 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An all-access, firsthand account of the life and music of one of history's most beloved bands--from an original mastering engineer at Abbey Road Geoff Emerick became an assistant engineer at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in 1962 at age fifteen, and was present as a new band called the Beatles recorded their first songs. He later worked with the Beatles as they recorded their singles “She Loves You” and “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” the songs that would propel them to international superstardom. In 1964 he would witness the transformation of this young and playful group from Liverpool into professional, polished musicians as they put to tape classic songs such as “Eight Days A Week” and “I Feel Fine.” Then, in 1966, at age nineteen, Geoff Emerick became the Beatles’ chief engineer, the man responsible for their distinctive sound as they recorded the classic album Revolver, in which they pioneered innovative recording techniques that changed the course of rock history. Emerick would also engineer the monumental Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road albums, considered by many the greatest rock recordings of all time. In Here, There and Everywhere he reveals the creative process of the band in the studio, and describes how he achieved the sounds on their most famous songs. Emerick also brings to light the personal dynamics of the band, from the relentless (and increasingly mean-spirited) competition between Lennon and McCartney to the infighting and frustration that eventually brought a bitter end to the greatest rock band the world has ever known.
Author : Christine Candland
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1663250065
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (632 download)
Download or read book Paris Spoken Here written by Christine Candland and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2023-02-08 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In “Princess,” we follow the life of a young teacher with baby in tow; ”She strolls in the moonlight, ethereal, misty, a vision. No, she walks with deliberation, carries baby in one arm holds onto toddler with the other..” In “The Cusp of Venice,” “(A) full moon building as water in the grand canal rose higher each day as Poseidon himself lapped up the steps of the Piazza.” In “Cleopatra’s Remorse,” a choice must be made between her love and loyalty to Egypt. “Does her heart truly ache for Anthony or has it become caustic and soundproof.” There is dramatic dialogue between Persephone and Zeus in “The Plea,” “ Father Zeus, do not cast me down to the dank land of stealth, to moldy things..”; and in the title poem “Paris Spoken Here”, “When the rain came down hard, you hustled us off to a warm brasserie to purchase a café crème..”
Author : Eddie S. Meadows
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136776028
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Jazz written by Eddie S. Meadows and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jazz: Research and Pedagogy is the third edition of an annotated bibliography to books, recordings, videos, and websites in the field of jazz. Since the publication of the 2nd edition in 1995, the quantity and quality of books on jazz research, performance, and teaching materials have increased. Although the 1995 book was the most comprehensive annotated jazz bibliography published to that date, several books on research, performance, and teaching materials were omitted. In addition, given the proliferation of new books in all jazz areas since 1995, the need for a new, comprehensive, and annotated reference book on jazz is apparent. Multiply indexed, this book will serve as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars in sorting through the massive amount of new material that has appeared in the field over the last decade.
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Author : Dave Dutton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781480123328
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (233 download)
Download or read book Lanky Spoken Here! written by Dave Dutton and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the legendary Lanky Spoken Here!Astbinmenbinmam? Avennyonyeranyonyer?Flummoxed?Don't worry - help is at hand.This comical tongue-in-cheek guide to the Lancashire dialect and quaint customs in the form of a spoof phrasebook covering such topics as Eating Out;Down the Pub;Table Etiquette; Doctors; Insults; Shopping and hilariously quaint Lanky sayings, words and phrases will educate as well as make you laugh out loudly.An alltime Lancashire classic since 1978, this book went on to be made into an EMI LP.It will bring back memories for older readers; put younger ones in touch with how their forebears spoke and bring enlightenment to those unfortunate enough not to be born in the Red Rose county.The book is written by Dave Dutton - a Lancashire lad who has had 9 different parts in Coronation Street - and of whom no less than The Guardian said :" Mr. Dutton's mordant wit is a good match for his subject matter.So don't just sit theer. Download it, make a cuppa, put thi feet up and have a reet good lowf!
Author : Wayne Enstice
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253010586
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Jazzwomen Speak written by Wayne Enstice and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-16 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman in jazz. How was she treated on- and offstage? What was it like to play with Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker? What was the breakthrough moment in her career? How did she balance her personal and professional life? In six illuminating interviews, female jazz musicians answer these questions and more, discussing the challenges of being a woman in a scene historically dominated by men. Jazzwomen Speak gathers the voices of women whose careers highlight the bebop and post-bop era of jazz, as they share stories of their musical training and entrance into the jazz world, relationships and encounters with other musicians, limitations on the bandstand and in the recording studio, and how being a female musician has formed their musical performances over time.
Author : Alyn Shipton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195126890
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Jazz Makers written by Alyn Shipton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-02-21 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jazz Makers gathers together short biographies of more than 50 of jazz's greatest stars, from its early beginnings to the present. The stories of these innovative instrumentalists, bandleaders, and composers reveal the fascinating history of jazz in six parts:* The Pioneers, including Scott Joplin, Louis Armstrong, and Bessie Smith* Swing Bands and Soloists, with Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, and Billie Holiday* The Piano Giants, featuring Fats Waller, Art Tatum, and Mary Lou Williams* Birth of Bebop, including Dizzy Gillepsie, Charlie Parker, and Miles Davis* Cool Jazz, Hard Bop, and Fusion, with John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, and Stan Getz* A Century of Jazz, featuring Wynton Marsalis, Joshua Redman, and other contemporary greats.
