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Paul Whiteman

Author : Don Rayno
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810883228
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Paul Whiteman written by Don Rayno and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second volume of Rayno’s magisterial treatment of the life and music of this remarkable maestro, Whiteman’s career during the second half of his life is explored in the fullest detail, as Whiteman conquers the worlds of theater and vaudeville, the concert hall, radio, motion pictures, and television, winning accolades in all of them. Through hundreds of interviews, extensive documentation, and exhaustive research of over nearly three decades, a portrait emerges of one of American music’s most important musical figures during the last century. Rayno paints a stunning portrait of Whiteman’s considerable accomplishments and far-reaching influence.

Jazz

Author : Paul Whiteman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Jazz written by Paul Whiteman and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pops

Author : Thomas A. DeLong
Publisher : New Win Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Pops written by Thomas A. DeLong and published by New Win Publishing. This book was released on 1983 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Louis Armstrong and Paul Whiteman

Author : Joshua Berrett
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300127472
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Louis Armstrong and Paul Whiteman written by Joshua Berrett and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Louis Armstrong and Paul Whiteman the jazz scholar Joshua Berrett offers a provocative revision of the history of early jazz by focusing on two of its most notable practitioners—Whiteman, legendary in his day, and Armstrong, a legend ever since. Paul Whiteman’s fame was unmatched throughout the twenties. Bix Beiderbecke, Bing Crosby, and Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey honed their craft on his bandstand. Celebrated as the “King of Jazz” in 1930 in a Universal Studios feature film, Whiteman’s imperium has declined considerably since. The legend of Louis Armstrong, in contrast, grows ever more lustrous: for decades it has been Armstrong, not Whiteman, who has worn the king’s crown. This dual biography explores these diverging legacies in the context of race, commerce, and the history of early jazz. Early jazz, Berrett argues, was not a story of black innovators and white usurpers. In this book, a much richer, more complicated story emerges—a story of cross-influences, sidemen, sundry movers and shakers who were all part of a collective experience that transcended the category of race. In the world of early jazz, Berrett contends, kingdoms had no borders.

King of Jazz

Author : James Layton
Publisher : Media History Digital Library
ISBN 13 : 9780997380101
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book King of Jazz written by James Layton and published by Media History Digital Library. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "King of Jazz: Paul Whiteman's Technicolor Revue" tells the story of the making, release, and restoration of Universal s 1930 Technicolor musical extravaganza King of Jazz. Authors James Layton and David Pierce have uncovered original artwork, studio production files, behind-the-scenes photographs, personal papers, unpublished interviews, and a host of other previously unseen documentation. The book offers a richly illustrated narrative of the film's production, with broader context on its diverse musical and theatrical influences. The story concludes with an in-depth look at the challenges Universal overcame in restoring the film in 2016. Additionally, the book's appendix provides a comprehensive guide to all of the film's performers, music, alternate versions, and deleted scenes. "King of Jazz" was one of the most ambitious films ever to emerge from Hollywood. Just as movie musicals were being invented in 1929, Universal Pictures brought together Paul Whiteman, leader of the country s top dance orchestra; John Murray Anderson, director of spectacular Broadway revues; a top ensemble of dancers and singers; early Technicolor; and a near unlimited budget. The film s highlights include a dazzling interpretation of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, which Whiteman had introduced to the public in 1924; Walter Lantz's A Fable in Jazz, the first cartoon in Technicolor; and Anderson's grand finale The Melting Pot of Music, a visualization of popular music's many influences and styles. The film is not only a unique document of Anderson's theatrical vision and Whiteman's band at its peak, but also of several of America s leading performers of the late 1920s, including Bing Crosby in his first screen appearance, and the Russell Markert Dancers, who would soon become Radio City Music Hall's famous Rockettes

The Louis Armstrong Companion

Author : Joshua Berrett
Publisher : Schirmer Trade Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Louis Armstrong Companion written by Joshua Berrett and published by Schirmer Trade Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the rich resources of the Louis Armstrong Archives, jazz historian Joshua Berrett has compiled a wonderful tribute to the multitalented trumpeter, vocalist, and "Ambassador of Jazz". 20 photos.

The Jazz Republic

Author : Jonathan O. Wipplinger
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 047205340X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Jazz Republic written by Jonathan O. Wipplinger and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2017-04-14 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the wide-ranging influence of American jazz on German discussions of music, race, and culture in the early twentieth century

Making of the Whiteman

Author : Paul Lawrence Guthrie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781564111227
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Making of the Whiteman written by Paul Lawrence Guthrie and published by . This book was released on 1997-07-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Top 10 Construction Achievements of the 20th Century

Author : Elizabeth Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780953021956
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book The Top 10 Construction Achievements of the 20th Century written by Elizabeth Baker and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

1929

Author : Frederick Turner
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1582433097
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book 1929 written by Frederick Turner and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2004-04-21 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1929, the brief, brilliant career of Bix Beiderbecke––self–taught cornetist, pianist, and composer––had already become legend. From the summer of '26 at Hudson Lake, Indiana, when his genius blazed forth with a strange, doomed incandescence, Bix's career tragically reflected the chaotic impulses of a country suddenly awash in wealth, power, and a profound cynicism. Shy, elusive, inarticulate, Bix was beloved by both the raccoon–coated campus crowd and the men who nightly played alongside him. He is still celebrated in a yearly festival in his hometown of Davenport, Iowa.And that is where the novel begins, Davenport and the Bix Fest. Then it travels back in time to focus on the highlights of a meteoric career: a Capone–controlled nightclub in 1926; the grueling cross–country tours with Paul Whiteman's Symphonic Jazz orchestra; the disastrous Whiteman trip to California to make the first all–color talkie musical; the stock market crash of 1929 that finds Bix in an asylum, victim of the era's signature product, bootleg gin; and finally, Bix's dying efforts to combine his piano compositions into a suite that would be the pinnacle of his life's work and his evocation of his time and place.Colored by some of the age's most popular characters––Maurice Ravel, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Clara Bow–– 1929 brilliantly illuminates a period in history, personified in the gifted, compelling, and melancholy figure of Bix Beiderbecke.

Joined at the Hip

Author : Jay Goetting
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 0873518322
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Joined at the Hip written by Jay Goetting and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the early days through Prohibition and the swing era, then to bebop and beyond, this is the story of jazz music, musicians, and venues in Minneapolis and St. Paul.

Grand Canyon Suite

Author : Ferde Grofé
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457495861
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Grand Canyon Suite written by Ferde Grofé and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1932 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Titles: * Grand Canyon Suite: Sunrise * Painted Desert * On the Trail * Sunset * Cloudburst

Thirty Years with the Big Bands

Author : Arthur Rollini
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781871478402
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (784 download)

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Download or read book Thirty Years with the Big Bands written by Arthur Rollini and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1995-11-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Rollini describes his career as a tenor saxophonist in the big US jazz orchestras. Here he tells an insider's story of the white swing orchestras.

Summertime: George Gershwin's Life in Music

Author : Richard Crawford
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393635414
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Summertime: George Gershwin's Life in Music written by Richard Crawford and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of a beloved American composer reflected through his music, writings, and letters. New York City native and gifted pianist George Gershwin blossomed as an accompanist before his talent as a songwriter opened the way to Broadway, where he fashioned his own brand of American music. He composed a long run of musical comedies, many with his brother Ira as lyricist, but his aspirations reached beyond commercial success. A lifetime learner, Gershwin was able to appeal to listeners on both sides of the purported popular-classical divide. In 1924—when he was just twenty-five—he bridged that gap with his first instrumental composition, Rhapsody in Blue, an instant classic premiered by Paul Whiteman’s jazz orchestra, as the anchor of a concert entitled “An Experiment in Modern Music.” From that time forward his work as a composer, pianist, and citizen of the Jazz Age made him in some circles a leader on America’s musical scene. The late1920s found him extending the range of the shows he scored to include the United Kingdom, and he published several articles to reveal his thinking about a range of musical matters. Moreover, having polished his skills as an orchestrator, he pushed boundaries again in 1935 with the groundbreaking folk opera, Porgy and Bess—his magnum opus. Gershwin’s talent and warmth made him a presence in New York’s musical and social circles (and linked him romantically with pianist-composer Kay Swift). In 1936 he and Ira moved west to write songs for Hollywood. Their work was cut short, however, when George developed a brain tumor and died at thirty-eight, a beloved American artist. Drawing extensively from letters and contemporaneous accounts, acclaimed music historian Richard Crawford traces the arc of Gershwin’s remarkable life, seamlessly blending colorful anecdotes with a discussion of Gershwin’s unforgettable oeuvre. His days on earth were limited to the summertime of life. But the spirit and inventive vitality of the music he left behind lives on.

Some Liked It Hot

Author : Kristin A. McGee
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819569674
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Some Liked It Hot written by Kristin A. McGee and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women have been involved with jazz since its inception, but all too often their achievements were not as well known as those of their male counterparts. Some Liked It Hot looks at all-girl bands and jazz women from the 1920s through the 1950s and how they fit into the nascent mass culture, particularly film and television, to uncover some of the historical motivations for excluding women from the now firmly established jazz canon. This well-illustrated book chronicles who appeared where and when in over 80 performances, captured in both popular Hollywood productions and in relatively unknown films and television shows. As McGee shows, these performances reflected complex racial attitudes emerging in American culture during the first half of the twentieth century. Her analysis illuminates the heavily mediated representational strategies that jazz women adopted, highlighting the role that race played in constituting public performances of various styles of jazz from “swing” to “hot” and “sweet.” The International Sweethearts of Rhythm, Hazel Scott, the Ingenues, Peggy Lee, and Paul Whiteman are just a few of the performers covered in the book, which also includes a detailed filmography.

Portraits of 'the Whiteman'

Author : Keith H. Basso
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521295932
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book Portraits of 'the Whiteman' written by Keith H. Basso and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1979-08-31 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on current theory in symbolic anthropology and sociolinguistics, this interpretive essay investigates a complex form of joking based on material collected in a Western Apache community wherein Apaches stage carefully crafted imitations of Anglo-Americans.

The New Yorker

Author : Harold Wallace Ross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1264 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book The New Yorker written by Harold Wallace Ross and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: