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The Thelonious Monk Reader

Author : Rob van der Bliek
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199761477
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Thelonious Monk Reader written by Rob van der Bliek and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-02-22 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the major jazz artists, Thelonious Monk was one of the most original musical thinkers--nonconformist, idiosyncratic, imaginative, eccentric--in a word, unique. In The Thelonious Monk Reader, Rob van der Bliek has brought together some of the most revealing pieces ever written on Monk, providing a full portrait of the musician and his impact on the jazz world. Here is a wealth of information that was previously scattered and difficult to locate, including a wide range of articles, profiles, reviews, interviews, liner notes, and music analyses. Ranging in date from 1947 to 1999, these 39 pieces feature the work of some of our best jazz critics, including Leonard Feather, Ira Gitler, Nat Hentoff, Andre Hodeir, Gunther Schuller, Martin Williams, and many others. The book spans Monk's childhood and early recordings with Blue Note and Prestige, his Riverside period and the critical recognition that followed the release of Brilliant Corners, and his fame and fortune during his Columbia years. Readers will find colorful descriptions of Monk's eccentric lifestyle as well as thoughtful commentary on his unorthodox piano technique, which was marked by off-center accents and idiosyncratic voicings, broken rhythms, alternately dense and stripped down chords, and creative use of silence. Rob van der Bliek also provides a general introduction and brief introductions to each piece as well as critical annotations that place the work in context. Controversial, often contradictory, and always engaging, these readings offer a complete view of the man, his music, and his time. The only such book on Monk's life and work, this volume will be "must reading" for jazz fans and scholars, musicians, music lovers, and readers with an interest in African-American culture.

Four Jazz Lives

Author : A.B. Spellman
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472022644
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Four Jazz Lives written by A.B. Spellman and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Four Lives in the Bebop Business

Author : A. B. Spellman
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879100421
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Four Lives in the Bebop Business written by A. B. Spellman and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1985 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Score

Herbie Nichols

Author : Mark Miller
Publisher : Mercury Press (Canada)
ISBN 13 : 9781551281469
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Herbie Nichols written by Mark Miller and published by Mercury Press (Canada). This book was released on 2009 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Four Jazz Lives

Author : A.B. Spellman
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472089673
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Four Jazz Lives written by A.B. Spellman and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2004-01-26 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revival of a classic oral biography of four nearly overlooked jazz giants

What Is This Thing Called Jazz?

Author : Eric Porter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520928404
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book What Is This Thing Called Jazz? written by Eric Porter and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the plethora of writing about jazz, little attention has been paid to what musicians themselves wrote and said about their practice. An implicit division of labor has emerged where, for the most part, black artists invent and play music while white writers provide the commentary. Eric Porter overturns this tendency in his creative intellectual history of African American musicians. He foregrounds the often-ignored ideas of these artists, analyzing them in the context of meanings circulating around jazz, as well as in relationship to broader currents in African American thought. Porter examines several crucial moments in the history of jazz: the formative years of the 1920s and 1930s; the emergence of bebop; the political and experimental projects of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s; and the debates surrounding Jazz at Lincoln Center under the direction of Wynton Marsalis. Louis Armstrong, Anthony Braxton, Marion Brown, Duke Ellington, W.C. Handy, Yusef Lateef, Abbey Lincoln, Charles Mingus, Archie Shepp, Wadada Leo Smith, Mary Lou Williams, and Reggie Workman also feature prominently in this book. The wealth of information Porter uncovers shows how these musicians have expressed themselves in print; actively shaped the institutional structures through which the music is created, distributed, and consumed, and how they aligned themselves with other artists and activists, and how they were influenced by forces of class and gender. What Is This Thing Called Jazz? challenges interpretive orthodoxies by showing how much black jazz musicians have struggled against both the racism of the dominant culture and the prescriptive definitions of racial authenticity propagated by the music's supporters, both white and black.

Dust & Grooves

Author : Eilon Paz
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
ISBN 13 : 1607748703
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Dust & Grooves written by Eilon Paz and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic look into the world of vinyl record collectors—including Questlove—in the most intimate of environments—their record rooms. Compelling photographic essays from photographer Eilon Paz are paired with in-depth and insightful interviews to illustrate what motivates these collectors to keep digging for more records. The reader gets an up close and personal look at a variety of well-known vinyl champions, including Gilles Peterson and King Britt, as well as a glimpse into the collections of known and unknown DJs, producers, record dealers, and everyday enthusiasts. Driven by his love for vinyl records, Paz takes us on a five-year journey unearthing the very soul of the vinyl community.

The Moderns

Author : Steven Heller
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 168335012X
Total Pages : 2261 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book The Moderns written by Steven Heller and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 2261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Moderns, we meet the men and women who invented and shaped Midcentury Modern graphic design in America. The book is made up of generously illustrated profiles, many based on interviews, of more than 60 designers whose magazine, book, and record covers; advertisements and package designs; posters; and other projects created the visual aesthetics of postwar modernity. Some were émigrés from Europe; others were homegrown—all were intoxicated by elemental typography, primary colors, photography, and geometric or biomorphic forms. Some are well-known, others are honored in this volume for the first time, and together they comprised a movement that changed our design world.

Ain't But a Few of Us

Author : Willard Jenkins
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 147802366X
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Ain't But a Few of Us written by Willard Jenkins and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-28 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the fact that most of jazz’s major innovators and performers have been African American, the overwhelming majority of jazz journalists, critics, and authors have been and continue to be white men. No major mainstream jazz publication has ever had a black editor or publisher. Ain’t But a Few of Us presents over two dozen candid dialogues with black jazz critics and journalists ranging from Greg Tate, Farah Jasmine Griffin, and Robin D. G. Kelley to Tammy Kernodle, Ron Welburn, and John Murph. They discuss the obstacles to access for black jazz journalists, outline how they contend with the world of jazz writing dominated by white men, and point out that these racial disparities are not confined to jazz but hamper their efforts at writing about other music genres as well. Ain’t But a Few of Us also includes an anthology section, which reprints classic essays and articles from black writers and musicians such as LeRoi Jones, Archie Shepp, A. B. Spellman, and Herbie Nichols. Contributors Eric Arnold, Bridget Arnwine, Angelika Beener, Playthell Benjamin, Herb Boyd, Bill Brower, Jo Ann Cheatham, Karen Chilton, Janine Coveney, Marc Crawford, Stanley Crouch, Anthony Dean-Harris, Jordannah Elizabeth, Lofton Emenari III, Bill Francis, Barbara Gardner, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Jim Harrison, Eugene Holley Jr., Haybert Houston, Robin James, Willard Jenkins, Martin Johnson, LeRoi Jones, Robin D. G. Kelley, Tammy Kernodle, Steve Monroe, Rahsaan Clark Morris, John Murph, Herbie Nichols, Don Palmer, Bill Quinn, Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr., Ron Scott, Gene Seymour, Archie Shepp, Wayne Shorter, A. B. Spellman, Rex Stewart, Greg Tate, Billy Taylor, Greg Thomas, Robin Washington, Ron Welburn, Hollie West, K. Leander Williams, Ron Wynn

Blue Note

Author : Graham Marsh
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811836883
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Blue Note written by Graham Marsh and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smaller in trim size, greatly expanded in content, this compendium of Chronicle's classic Blue Note books is now an appealingly chunky paperback. Featuring 400 of the legendary covers, spanning the '40s to the '70s, features the greatest work of legendary Blue Note art director Reid Miles.

Jazz And Its Discontents

Author : Francis Davis
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786749814
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Jazz And Its Discontents written by Francis Davis and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Frank Sinatra to Sun Ra, from the jazz age to middle age, with thoughts on everything in-between, Francis Davis has been writing about American music and American culture for more than twenty years. His essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and the Village Voice among countless other publications from coast to coast. And now, for the first time, here are his most important writings of his impressive career-the quintessential Davis on everything from why Rent set musicals back two decades, to what Ken Burns should have filmed. And Davis's writing is as enjoyable as the music of which he writes. The New York Times Book Review has compared Davis's work to "a well-blown solo."

Make It New

Author : Bill Beuttler
Publisher : Lever Press
ISBN 13 : 1643150057
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Make It New written by Bill Beuttler and published by Lever Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As jazz enters its second century it is reasserting itself as dynamic and relevant. Boston Globe jazz writer and Emerson College professor Bill Beuttler reveals new ways in which jazz is engaging with society through the vivid biographies and music of Jason Moran, Vijay Iyer, Rudresh Mahanthappa, The Bad Plus, Miguel Zenón, Anat Cohen, Robert Glasper, and Esperanza Spalding. These musicians are freely incorporating other genres of music into jazz—from classical (both western and Indian) to popular (hip-hop, R&B, rock, bluegrass, klezmer, Brazilian choro)—and other art forms as well (literature, film, photography, and other visual arts). This new generation of jazz is increasingly more international and is becoming more open to women as instrumentalists and bandleaders. Contemporary jazz is reasserting itself as a force for social change, prompted by developments such as the Black Lives Matter, #MeToo movements, and the election of Donald Trump.

The New York Times Essential Library: Jazz

Author : Ben Ratliff
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805070682
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book The New York Times Essential Library: Jazz written by Ben Ratliff and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-11-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an informed collector's guide to one hundred top recorded works of jazz, profiling each piece in a context of its importance to the development of the form.

Jazz in Search of Itself

Author : Larry Kart
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300128193
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Jazz in Search of Itself written by Larry Kart and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging and astute anthology of jazz criticism, Larry Kart casts a wide net. Discussing nearly seventy major jazz figures and many of the music’s key stylistic developments, Kart sees jazz as a unique perpetual narrative—one in which musicians, their audiences, and the evolving music itself are intimately intertwined. Because jazz arose from the collision of specific peoples under particular conditions, says Kart, its development has been unusually immediate, visible, and intense. Kart has reacted to and judged the music in a similarly active, attentive, and personal manner. His involvement and attention to detail are visible in these pieces: essays that analyze the supposed return to tradition that the music of Wynton Marsalis has come to exemplify; searching accounts of the careers of Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Bill Evans, and Lennie Tristano; and writing that explores jazz’s relationship to American popular song and examines the jazz musician’s role as actual and would-be social rebel.

New Directions in Prose and Poetry 11

Author : James Laughlin
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811206952
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book New Directions in Prose and Poetry 11 written by James Laughlin and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1949 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Harmony Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz

Author : Brian Case
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Harmony Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz written by Brian Case and published by Harmony. This book was released on 1987 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains entries of the giants of jazz with photographs, facts about the performers, and a listing of albums.

Blue Note Records

Author : Richard Cook
Publisher : Justin, Charles & Co.
ISBN 13 : 1932112278
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Blue Note Records written by Richard Cook and published by Justin, Charles & Co.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insightful scenes abound in the first full history of the most noted label in jazz history. With record-collector zeal, Cook analyzes everything from Sidney Bechet's 78s to Norah Jones' recent chart-topper.