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Author : Michael Bowen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Mike Daniels and the Delta Jazzmen written by Michael Bowen and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederic Ramsey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Jazzmen written by Frederic Ramsey and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Gennari
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226289249
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Blowin' Hot and Cool written by John Gennari and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the illustrious and richly documented history of American jazz, no figure has been more controversial than the jazz critic. Jazz critics can be revered or reviled—often both—but they should not be ignored. And while the tradition of jazz has been covered from seemingly every angle, nobody has ever turned the pen back on itself to chronicle the many writers who have helped define how we listen to and how we understand jazz. That is, of course, until now. In Blowin’ Hot and Cool, John Gennari provides a definitive history of jazz criticism from the 1920s to the present. The music itself is prominent in his account, as are the musicians—from Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington to Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Roscoe Mitchell, and beyond. But the work takes its shape from fascinating stories of the tradition’s key critics—Leonard Feather, Martin Williams, Whitney Balliett, Dan Morgenstern, Gary Giddins, and Stanley Crouch, among many others. Gennari is the first to show the many ways these critics have mediated the relationship between the musicians and the audience—not merely as writers, but in many cases as producers, broadcasters, concert organizers, and public intellectuals as well. For Gennari, the jazz tradition is not so much a collection of recordings and performances as it is a rancorous debate—the dissonant noise clamoring in response to the sounds of jazz. Against the backdrop of racial strife, class and gender issues, war, and protest that has defined the past seventy-five years in America, Blowin’ Hot and Cool brings to the fore jazz’s most vital critics and the role they have played not only in defining the history of jazz but also in shaping jazz’s significance in American culture and life.
Author : Eric Hobsbawm
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571320112
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)
Download or read book The Jazz Scene written by Eric Hobsbawm and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1955-65 the historian Eric Hobsbawm took the pseudonym 'Francis Newton' and wrote a monthly column for the New Statesman on jazz - music he had loved ever since discovering it as a boy in 1933 ('the year Adolf Hitler took power in Germany'). Hobsbawm's column led to his writing a critical history, The Jazz Scene (1959). This enhanced edition from 1993 adds later writings by Hobsbawm in which he meditates further 'on why jazz is not only a marvellous noise but a central concern for anyone concerned with twentieth-century society and the twentieth-century arts.' 'All the greats are covered in passing (Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday), while further space is given to Duke Ellington, Ray Charles, Thelonious Monk, Mahalia Jackson, and Sidney Bechet ... Perhaps Hobsbawm's tastiest comments are about the business side and work ethics, where his historian's eye strips the jazz scene down to its commercial spine.' Kirkus Reviews
Author : Jeff Kitts
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780634046193
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (461 download)
Download or read book Guitar World Presents the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time! written by Jeff Kitts and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Guitar World Presents). This exciting book from the editors of Guitar World is a treasure trove for any guitarist. Featuring electrifying profiles of everyone from hard rock gods (Wes Borland, Dimebag Darrell, Tony Iommi) to British giants (Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, even Nigel Tufnel) to trailblazing bluesmen (John Lee Hooker, Reverend Gary Davis) to country gents (Clarence White, Albert Lee) to the founding fathers (Chuck Berry, Dick Dale) as well as jazzmen, progressive rockers, punks and rockabilly superstars, Guitar World's 100 Greatest Guitarists puts all these inspiring masters at your fingertips. But the fun doesn't stop there. Guitar World has also assembled the riveting stories behind the 100 greatest guitar solos. You know them note-for-note, from David Gilmour's transcendent phrasing in "Comfortably Numb" to Jimi Hendrix's rich notes in "Little Wing" to Kurt Cobain's unforgettable melodic turns in "Smells Like Teen Spirit," and now you can get the inside stories of how these magic moments were captured for all time. Rounding off the collection is bonus material such as a lesson with Metallica's Kirk Hammet, a guide to the 12 greatest guitar tones, and 25 guitar masters weighing in on their favorite solos.
Author : Karen Ehrhardt
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547545746
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book This Jazz Man written by Karen Ehrhardt and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this toe-tapping jazz tribute, the traditional "This Old Man" gets a swinging makeover, and some of the era's best musicians take center stage. The tuneful text and vibrant illustrations bop, slide, and shimmy across the page as Satchmo plays one, Bojangles plays two . . . right on down the line to Charles Mingus, who plays nine, plucking strings that sound "divine." Easy on the ear and the eye, this playful introduction to nine jazz giants will teach children to count--and will give them every reason to get up and dance! Includes a brief biography of each musician.
Author : Don Hale
Publisher : Don Hale
ISBN 13 : 1907163220
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Sounds of the 60s written by Don Hale and published by Don Hale. This book was released on 2010 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dustin Feyder
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 147970850X
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (797 download)
Download or read book Red Twilight written by Dustin Feyder and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Red Twilight. Here men may become monsters and monsters can be beautiful. Snake Gekks, El Driver, and Richard Blake have escaped the darkness once, but the darkness has a terrible hunger for life. New plots arise and the hunters must do battle again, this time accompanied by allies: Joe Dove, a high-ranking member of the Von Richton Watchers society, and Reizuki Lowe, a mysterious and brilliant young man. Be it for love, honor, or duty, these warriors will stand and fight again for the fate of this world. Now they find themselves at odds with a new enigmatic man Marks Karingson, a man powerful enough to defeat death . . . What will your impotent God do? Your God has failed to deliver you from evil a dozen times already. Your prayers are quaint but utterly meaningless. Your worship is misplaced. The world will not be spared the never-ending darkness by any unseen father figure! Nothing but sweet hot blood spilled upon cold earth can hope to fulfill your miserable hallucinations of peace. I am the sword and the shield that will deliver you from the grip of sorrow. Only I can materialize your dreams, and I will cast away despair and I will do it if I have to send us all to hell first! Send me your lords and your kings, your sisters and your brothers, your bishops and your fools, sinners and saints. Let them all come and be enveloped by my rage! You can have your war, and when it ends, I alone will rise as a goddess from the ashes of dissilience. You shall leave behind. Your lord will grovel in disarray at the power I shall unveil. Wright Von Richton
Author : Don Hale
Publisher : Don Hale
ISBN 13 : 1907163204
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Joe Cocker Story written by Don Hale and published by Don Hale. This book was released on 2010 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chip Deffaa
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252062582
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Voices of the Jazz Age written by Chip Deffaa and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features interviews of Sam Wooding, Benny Waters, Joe Tarto, Bud Freeman, Jimmy McPartland, Freddie Moore, and Jabbo Smith, and Bix Beiderbecke's letters to his family.
Author : Vic Hobson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1626740968
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Creating Jazz Counterpoint written by Vic Hobson and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book Jazzmen (1939) claimed New Orleans as the birthplace of jazz and introduced the legend of Buddy Bolden as the “First Man of Jazz.” Much of the information that the book relied on came from a highly controversial source: Bunk Johnson. He claimed to have played with Bolden and that together they had pioneered jazz. Johnson made many recordings talking about and playing the music of the Bolden era. These recordings have been treated with skepticism because of doubts about Johnson’s credibility. Using oral histories, the Jazzmen interview notes, and unpublished archive material, this book confirms that Bunk Johnson did play with Bolden. This confirmation, in turn, has profound implications for Johnson’s recorded legacy in describing the music of the early years of New Orleans jazz. New Orleans jazz was different from ragtime in a number of ways. It was a music that was collectively improvised, and it carried a new tonality—the tonality of the blues. How early jazz musicians improvised together and how the blues became a part of jazz has until now been a mystery. Part of the reason New Orleans jazz developed as it did is that all the prominent jazz pioneers, including Buddy Bolden, Bunk Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Johnny Dodds, and Kid Ory, sang in barbershop (or barroom) quartets. This book describes in both historical and musical terms how the practices of quartet singing were converted to the instruments of a jazz band, and how this, in turn, produced collectively improvised, blues-inflected jazz, that unique sound of New Orleans.
Author : Larry Kemp
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480976490
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Modern Jazz Trumpet Legends written by Larry Kemp and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Jazz Trumpet Legends By: Larry Kemp Modern Jazz Trumpet Legends is an examination of the lives and contributions of jazz trumpeters born between 1925 and 1940. Included are Miles Davis, Maynard Ferguson, Doc Severinsen, Chet Baker, and Clifford Brown 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. The Jazz Trumpet Legends three volume series is the most comprehensive book on the subject. In the series, 867 trumpeters are discussed. The second volume covers the trumpeters in the center of the history of jazz. There are the sad stories of those who died too young (Clifford Brown at 25, Ray Wetzel at 27 from automobile accidents; Joe Gordon at 35 from a house fire; Booker Little at 23 from uremia), balanced by the positive stories of those who accomplished much with their lives (Miles Davis invented cool jazz and fusion; Maynard Ferguson took the trumpet to new heights; Lionel Ferbos performed regularly for a couple of years after his hundredth birthday; Clora Bryant and Betty O’Hara showed that women could get the job done on the trumpet). Modern Jazz Trumpet Legends contains two appendices that apply to trumpeters in all three volumes: a yearly calendar showing, for each day of the year, the trumpeters born on that date; and a geographical listing of the states and countries showing, for each place, the trumpeters born there. 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.
Author : Nichole Rustin-Paschal
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 081957757X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)
Download or read book The Kind of Man I Am written by Nichole Rustin-Paschal and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly four decades after his death, Charles Mingus Jr. remains one of the least understood and most recognized jazz composers and musicians of our time. Mingus's ideas about music, racial identity, and masculinity—as well as those of other individuals in his circle, like Celia Mingus, Hazel Scott, and Joni Mitchell—challenged jazz itself as a model of freedom, inclusion, creativity, and emotional expressivity. Drawing on archival records, published memoirs, and previously conducted interviews, The Kind of Man I Am uses Mingus as a lens through which to craft a gendered cultural history of postwar jazz culture. This book challenges the persisting narrative of Mingus as jazz's "Angry Man" by examining the ways the language of emotion has been used in jazz as shorthand for competing ideas about masculinity, authenticity, performance, and authority.
Download or read book Black World/Negro Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1969-02 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1943, Negro Digest (later “Black World”) was the publication that launched Johnson Publishing. During the most turbulent years of the civil rights movement, Negro Digest/Black World served as a critical vehicle for political thought for supporters of the movement.
Author : Fredric Lown
Publisher : Walch Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780825127939
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (279 download)
Download or read book Reading and Writing Poetry with Teenagers written by Fredric Lown and published by Walch Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This versatile volume combines examples of poetry from historical and contemporary masters with high school writing. Each chapter contains poems for reading aloud, poems for discussion, models for writing exercises, samples of student poems, and a bibliography for extended reading. Many teachers use Reading and Writing Poetry with Teenagers across disciplines. Writing exercises include: Animals as Symbols Family Portraits in Words Of War and Peace Writing Song Lyrics as an Expression of Social Protest
Author : Carl Sandburg
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780151009961
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg written by Carl Sandburg and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1970 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of the complete poems of twentieth-century American poet Carl Sandburg.
Author : Frank Marshall Davis
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604731494
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Writings of Frank Marshall Davis written by Frank Marshall Davis and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987) was a central figure in the black press, working as reporter and editor for the Atlanta World, the Associated Negro Press, the Chicago Star, and the Honolulu Record . Writings of Frank Marshall Davis presents a selection of Davis's nonfiction, providing an unprecedented insight into one journalist's ability to reset the terms of public conversation and frame the news to open up debate among African Americans and all Americans. During the middle of the twentieth century, Davis set forth a radical vision that challenged the status quo. His commentary on race relations, music, literature, and American culture was precise, impassioned, and engaged. At the height of World War II, Davis boldly questioned the nature of America's potential postwar relations and what they meant for African Americans and the nation. His work challenged the usefulness of race as a social construct, and he eventually disavowed the idea of race altogether. Throughout his career, he championed the struggles of African Americans for equal rights and laboring people seeking fair wages and other benefits. In his reviews on music, he argued that blues and jazz were responses to social conditions and served as weapons of racial integration. His book reviews complemented his radical vision by commenting on how literature reshapes one's understanding of the world. Even his travel writings on Hawaii called for cultural pluralism and tolerance for racial and economic difference. Writings of Frank Marshall Davis reveals a writer in touch with the most salient issues defining his era and his desire to insert them into the public sphere. John Edgar Tidwell provides an introduction and contextual notes on each major subject area Davis explored. John Edgar Tidwell is an associate professor of English at the University of Kansas. He edited Frank Marshall Davis's Livin' the Blues: Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet and his Black Moods: Collected Poems .
