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Author : Paavo Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (542 download)
Download or read book Lester Leaps Out written by Paavo Hall and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas H. Daniels
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807071250
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (712 download)
Download or read book Lester Leaps In written by Douglas H. Daniels and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2003-02-17 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was jazz's first hipster. He performed in sunglasses and coined and popularized phrases like "that's cool" and "you dig?" He always wore a suit and his trademark porkpie hat. He influenced everyone from B. B. King to Stan Getz to Allen Ginsberg, creating a lyrical style of playing that forever changed the sound of the tenor saxophone. In this groundbreaking biography of Lester Young (1909-1959), historian Douglas Daniels brings to life the man and his world, and corrects a number of misconceptions. Even though others have identified Young as a Kansas City musician, Daniels traces his roots to the blues of Louisiana and his early years traveling with his father's band and the legendary Oklahoma City Blue Devils. Later we see the jazz culture of New York in the early 1940s, when Young was launched to national and international fame with the Count Basie Orchestra and began to accompany his close friend Billie Holiday. After a year spent in an Army prison on a conviction for marijuana use, Young made changes in his music but never lost his sensitivity or soul. The first ever to gain access to Young's family and many musicians who performed with him, Daniels reconstructs the world in which Young lived and played: the racism that he and other black musicians faced, the feeling of home and family that they created together on the road, and what his music meant to black audiences. Young emerges as a kind friend, a loving parent, and a gentle and sensitive man who had, in the words of Reginald Scott, "the saddest eyes I ever saw
Author : Al Young
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Lester Leaps in written by Al Young and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Gary Urwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Lester Leaps In [musique]. written by Gary Urwin and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dave Gelly
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019977479X
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Being Prez written by Dave Gelly and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lester Young was one of the great jazz masters, and his impact on the course of the art form was profound. He fundamentally changed the way the saxophone was played--his long, flowing lines brought new levels of expressiveness and subtlety to the jazz language, setting the standard for all modern players. In Being Prez, renowned British critic Dave Gelly follows Lester Young through his life in a rapidly changing world, showing how the music of this exceptionally sensitive man was shaped by his experiences. The reader meets a complicated, vulnerable, gentle individual who was brought up in his father's traveling carnival band. His early career was spent in the nightclubs and dancehalls of Kansas City and the Southwest, and he made his landmark recording debut at the peak of the Swing Era. But at the height of his powers, he was drafted into the US Army, where racism and his own unworldliness landed him in military prison. Following these events, Young grew increasingly withdrawn and suspicious, changes in his character reflected in the darkening mood of his music. Gelly, himself a jazz saxophonist, examines many of Young's classic recordings in illuminating detail. He reveals how as a saxophonist--and as major contributor to the Count Basie band--Young created a strong personal voice, a cool modernism, and a new rhythmic flexibility in the freely dancing rhythms of 4-beat swing. With his sax jutting oddly to one side, his bizarre oblique use of language, and his unique musical rapport with Billie Holiday (who famously nicknamed him "Prez"), Lester Young has become an icon and a cult figure. This marvelous biography illuminates the life and work of this giant of jazz.
Author : John Speed
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (749 download)
Download or read book Lester Leaps in written by John Speed and published by . This book was released on 2010* with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald Carter
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457448065
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Swingin' on the Bars written by Ronald Carter and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swingin' on the Bars was written to afford middle school general music students the opportunity to learn about America's original brand of classical music --jazz-- by participating in hands-on, performance-based activities. The barred instruments, as found in music classrooms where the pedagogy of Carl Orff is used, provide a means for students with minimal formal instrumental training to experience jazz firsthand through direct experience and participation in performing the music. Teachers can help their students learn about the idioms of jazz in the way that young people best enjoy learning: through active participation and exploration. Presenting a variety of music arranged for Orff instrumentation in a swingin' style, this delightful collection is sure to engage your students' creativity while building musical skills. The sequence of tunes in this book represents difficulty levels in terms of mallet technique requirements and challenges resulting from more or less harmonic complexity. Each piece is preceded by a suggested teaching sequence and listening resources. Get your students Swingin' on the Bars today!
Author : Ted Gioia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019008717X
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Jazz Standards written by Ted Gioia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential copmprehensive guide to some of the most important jazz compositions, telling the story of more than 250 key jazz songs and providing a listening tuide to more than 2000 recordings
Author : Ed Ballou
Publisher : Ed Ballou
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Another Depression written by Ed Ballou and published by Ed Ballou. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comic full-length play about a pirate jazz DJ broadcasting illegally out of his apartment - during his efforts to evade the FCC, he falls in love with an organic baker, who is not what she seems...
Author : Will Friedwald
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 030755998X
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Stardust Melodies written by Will Friedwald and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Stardust Melodies, Will Friedwald takes each of these legendary songs apart and puts it together again, with a staggering wealth of detail and unprecedented understanding. Each chapter gives us an extended history of one song—the circumstances under which it was written and first performed—and then explores its musical and lyric content. Drawing on his vast knowledge of records and the careers of performing artists, Friedwald tells us who was responsible for making these songs famous and discusses in depth the performers who have left their unique marks on them. He writes about variations in performance style, about both classic and obscure versions of the songs, about brilliantly original interpretations and ghastly travesties. And then there’s the completely unexpected, like Stan Freberg’s politically correct “Elderly Man River.” This is a book for all lovers of American song to explore, argue with, and savor.
Author : David Ake
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520271041
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Jazz/Not Jazz written by David Ake and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Jazz/Not Jazz is an innovative and inspiring investigation of jazz as it is practiced, theorized and taught today. Taking their cues from current debates within jazz scholarship, the contributors to this collection open up jazz studies to a transdisciplinarity that is rich in its diversity of approaches, candid in its appraisals of critical worth, transparent in its ideological suppositions, and catholic in its subjects/objects of inquiry.”—Kevin Fellezs, author of Birds of Fire: Jazz, Rock, Funk and the Creation of Fusion. “This collection is a delight. Each essay opens up some previously ignored aspect of jazz history. Anyone who knows the New Jazz Studies and is wise enough to acquire this book will immediately devour it.”—Krin Gabbard, author of Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture. “This volume is truly one of a kind, eminently readable and filled with new insights. It will make an extremely important contribution to jazz literature.”—Jeffrey Taylor, Director, H. Wiley Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music, Brooklyn College.
Author : Tom Lord
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Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Jazz Discography written by Tom Lord and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gunther Schuller
Publisher : History of Jazz
ISBN 13 : 9780195071405
Total Pages : 948 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (714 download)
Download or read book The Swing Era written by Gunther Schuller and published by History of Jazz. This book was released on 1989 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the period in American musical history from 1930 to 1945 when jazz was synonymous with America's popular music.
Author : Luc Delannoy
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610753265
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (532 download)
Download or read book Pres:the Story of Lester Young (c) written by Luc Delannoy and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lewis Porter
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472089222
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Lester Young written by Lewis Porter and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the musical biography of jazz tenor saxophonist Lester Young, with a revised discography
Author : Alfred Green
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442242477
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Rhythm Is My Beat written by Alfred Green and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rhythm Is My Beat: Jazz Guitar Great Freddie Green and the Count Basie Sound, Alfred Green tells the story of his father, rhythm guitarist Freddie Green, whose guitar work served as the pulse of the Count Basie Band. A quiet but key figure in big band jazz, Freddie Green took a distinct pride in his role as Basie’s rhythm guitarist, redefining the outer limits of acoustic rhythm guitar and morphing it into an art form. So distinct was Green’s style that it would eventually give birth to notations on guitar charts that read: “Play in the style of Freddie Green.” This American jazz icon, much like his inimitable sound, achieved stardom as a sideman, both in and out of Basie’s band. Green’s signature sound provided lift to soloists like Lester Young and vocalist Lil’ Jimmy Rushing, a reflection of Green’s sophisticated technique, that produced, in Green’s words, his “rhythm wave.” Billie Holiday, Ruby Braff, Benny Goodman, Gerry Mulligan, Teddy Wilson, Ray Charles, Judy Carmichael, Joe Williams and other recording artists all benefited from the relentless fours of the man who came to be known as Mr. Rhythm. The mystique surrounding Freddie Green’s technique is illuminated through generous commentary by insightful interviews with other musicians, guitar professionals and scholars, all of whom offer their ideas on Freddie Green’s sound. Alfred Green throughout demystifies the man behind the legend. This work will interest jazz fans, students, and scholars; guitar enthusiasts and professionals; music historians and anyone interested not only in the history of jazz but of the African American experience in jazz.
Author : Max Harrison
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780720118223
Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (182 download)
Download or read book The Essential Jazz Records: Modernism to postmodernism written by Max Harrison and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the same format as the acclaimed first volume, this selection of the best 250 modern jazz records and CDs places each in its musical context and reviews it in depth. Additionally, full details of personnel, recording dates, and locations are given. Indexes of album titles, track titles, and musicians are included.
