Author: Edward Berger
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810831223
Category : Jazz
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
ARTICLES: BERGER, Morroe - Benny Carter: a life in American music; LAUBICH, Arnold - Art Tatum: a guide to his recorded music; DORAN, James M - Erroll Garner: the most happy piano; BROWN, Scott E - James P Johnson - a case of mistaken identity; VACHE, Warren W - Pee Wee Erwin - This horn for hire; CONNOR, D Russell - Benny Goodman: listen to his legacy; TIMNER, W E - Ellingtonia: the recorded music of Duke Ellington and his Sideman; POLIC, Edward F - The Glen Miller Army Air Force Band: Sustineo alas / I sustain the wings; DEFFAA, Chip - Swing legacy; REIG, Teddy - Reminiscing in tempo: the life and times of a jazz hustler; DEFFAA, Chip - In the mainstream: 18 portraits in jazz; KUEHN, John - Buddy DeFranco: a biographical portrait and discography; HILBERT, Robert - Pee Wee speaks: a discography of Pee Wee Russell; HILL, Dick - Sylvester Ahola: the Gloucester Gabriel; COHEN, Maxwell T - The police card discord; DEFFAA, Chip - Traditionalists and revivalists in jazz; BERGER, Edward - Ba ...
Annual Review of Jazz Studies
Author: Edward Berger
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810831223
Category : Jazz
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
ARTICLES: BERGER, Morroe - Benny Carter: a life in American music; LAUBICH, Arnold - Art Tatum: a guide to his recorded music; DORAN, James M - Erroll Garner: the most happy piano; BROWN, Scott E - James P Johnson - a case of mistaken identity; VACHE, Warren W - Pee Wee Erwin - This horn for hire; CONNOR, D Russell - Benny Goodman: listen to his legacy; TIMNER, W E - Ellingtonia: the recorded music of Duke Ellington and his Sideman; POLIC, Edward F - The Glen Miller Army Air Force Band: Sustineo alas / I sustain the wings; DEFFAA, Chip - Swing legacy; REIG, Teddy - Reminiscing in tempo: the life and times of a jazz hustler; DEFFAA, Chip - In the mainstream: 18 portraits in jazz; KUEHN, John - Buddy DeFranco: a biographical portrait and discography; HILBERT, Robert - Pee Wee speaks: a discography of Pee Wee Russell; HILL, Dick - Sylvester Ahola: the Gloucester Gabriel; COHEN, Maxwell T - The police card discord; DEFFAA, Chip - Traditionalists and revivalists in jazz; BERGER, Edward - Ba ...
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810831223
Category : Jazz
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
ARTICLES: BERGER, Morroe - Benny Carter: a life in American music; LAUBICH, Arnold - Art Tatum: a guide to his recorded music; DORAN, James M - Erroll Garner: the most happy piano; BROWN, Scott E - James P Johnson - a case of mistaken identity; VACHE, Warren W - Pee Wee Erwin - This horn for hire; CONNOR, D Russell - Benny Goodman: listen to his legacy; TIMNER, W E - Ellingtonia: the recorded music of Duke Ellington and his Sideman; POLIC, Edward F - The Glen Miller Army Air Force Band: Sustineo alas / I sustain the wings; DEFFAA, Chip - Swing legacy; REIG, Teddy - Reminiscing in tempo: the life and times of a jazz hustler; DEFFAA, Chip - In the mainstream: 18 portraits in jazz; KUEHN, John - Buddy DeFranco: a biographical portrait and discography; HILBERT, Robert - Pee Wee speaks: a discography of Pee Wee Russell; HILL, Dick - Sylvester Ahola: the Gloucester Gabriel; COHEN, Maxwell T - The police card discord; DEFFAA, Chip - Traditionalists and revivalists in jazz; BERGER, Edward - Ba ...
Annual Review of Jazz Studies 2-4
Author: James Stuart Patrick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780878559060
Category : Jazz
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780878559060
Category : Jazz
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Annual Review of Jazz Studies 13: 2003
Author: Edward Berger
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810859456
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This 13th issue of the ARJS includes an extensive study of the saxophonist Sonny Red, an analysis of a composition by Steve Swallow, a new perspective on John Coltrane's compositional approach, and an examination of Miles Davis's classic 'Walkin', ' plus book reviews and a continuing bibliography of scholarly articles about jazz in non-jazz journals
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810859456
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This 13th issue of the ARJS includes an extensive study of the saxophonist Sonny Red, an analysis of a composition by Steve Swallow, a new perspective on John Coltrane's compositional approach, and an examination of Miles Davis's classic 'Walkin', ' plus book reviews and a continuing bibliography of scholarly articles about jazz in non-jazz journals
Jazzology
Author: Robert Rawlins
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 0634086782
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Provides information jazz theory for all types of musicians, and covers harmony, scales and modes, voicing, arrangement techniques, improvisational strategies, fundamentals, and other related topics; and also includes exercises.
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 0634086782
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Provides information jazz theory for all types of musicians, and covers harmony, scales and modes, voicing, arrangement techniques, improvisational strategies, fundamentals, and other related topics; and also includes exercises.
Blowin' the Blues Away
Author: Travis A. Jackson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520951921
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
New York City has always been a mecca in the history of jazz, and in many ways the city’s jazz scene is more important now than ever before. Blowin’ the Blues Away examines how jazz has thrived in New York following its popular resurgence in the 1980s. Using interviews, in-person observation, and analysis of live and recorded events, ethnomusicologist Travis A. Jackson explores both the ways in which various participants in the New York City jazz scene interpret and evaluate performance, and the criteria on which those interpretations and evaluations are based. Through the notes and words of its most accomplished performers and most ardent fans, jazz appears not simply as a musical style, but as a cultural form intimately influenced by and influential upon American concepts of race, place, and spirituality.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520951921
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
New York City has always been a mecca in the history of jazz, and in many ways the city’s jazz scene is more important now than ever before. Blowin’ the Blues Away examines how jazz has thrived in New York following its popular resurgence in the 1980s. Using interviews, in-person observation, and analysis of live and recorded events, ethnomusicologist Travis A. Jackson explores both the ways in which various participants in the New York City jazz scene interpret and evaluate performance, and the criteria on which those interpretations and evaluations are based. Through the notes and words of its most accomplished performers and most ardent fans, jazz appears not simply as a musical style, but as a cultural form intimately influenced by and influential upon American concepts of race, place, and spirituality.
Thinking in Jazz
Author: Paul F. Berliner
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226044521
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
A landmark in jazz studies, Thinking in Jazz reveals as never before how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. Chronicling leading musicians from their first encounters with jazz to the development of a unique improvisatory voice, Paul Berliner documents the lifetime of preparation that lies behind the skilled improviser's every idea. The product of more than fifteen years of immersion in the jazz world, Thinking in Jazz combines participant observation with detailed musicological analysis, the author's experience as a jazz trumpeter, interpretations of published material by scholars and performers, and, above all, original data from interviews with more than fifty professional musicians: bassists George Duvivier and Rufus Reid; drummers Max Roach, Ronald Shannon Jackson, and Akira Tana; guitarist Emily Remler; pianists Tommy Flanagan and Barry Harris; saxophonists Lou Donaldson, Lee Konitz, and James Moody; trombonist Curtis Fuller; trumpeters Doc Cheatham, Art Farmer, Wynton Marsalis, and Red Rodney; vocalists Carmen Lundy and Vea Williams; and others. Together, the interviews provide insight into the production of jazz by great artists like Betty Carter, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, and Charlie Parker. Thinking in Jazz overflows with musical examples from the 1920s to the present, including original transcriptions (keyed to commercial recordings) of collective improvisations by Miles Davis's and John Coltrane's groups. These transcriptions provide additional insight into the structure and creativity of jazz improvisation and represent a remarkable resource for jazz musicians as well as students and educators. Berliner explores the alternative ways—aural, visual, kinetic, verbal, emotional, theoretical, associative—in which these performers conceptualize their music and describes the delicate interplay of soloist and ensemble in collective improvisation. Berliner's skillful integration of data concerning musical development, the rigorous practice and thought artists devote to jazz outside of performance, and the complexities of composing in the moment leads to a new understanding of jazz improvisation as a language, an aesthetic, and a tradition. This unprecedented journey to the heart of the jazz tradition will fascinate and enlighten musicians, musicologists, and jazz fans alike.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226044521
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
A landmark in jazz studies, Thinking in Jazz reveals as never before how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. Chronicling leading musicians from their first encounters with jazz to the development of a unique improvisatory voice, Paul Berliner documents the lifetime of preparation that lies behind the skilled improviser's every idea. The product of more than fifteen years of immersion in the jazz world, Thinking in Jazz combines participant observation with detailed musicological analysis, the author's experience as a jazz trumpeter, interpretations of published material by scholars and performers, and, above all, original data from interviews with more than fifty professional musicians: bassists George Duvivier and Rufus Reid; drummers Max Roach, Ronald Shannon Jackson, and Akira Tana; guitarist Emily Remler; pianists Tommy Flanagan and Barry Harris; saxophonists Lou Donaldson, Lee Konitz, and James Moody; trombonist Curtis Fuller; trumpeters Doc Cheatham, Art Farmer, Wynton Marsalis, and Red Rodney; vocalists Carmen Lundy and Vea Williams; and others. Together, the interviews provide insight into the production of jazz by great artists like Betty Carter, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, and Charlie Parker. Thinking in Jazz overflows with musical examples from the 1920s to the present, including original transcriptions (keyed to commercial recordings) of collective improvisations by Miles Davis's and John Coltrane's groups. These transcriptions provide additional insight into the structure and creativity of jazz improvisation and represent a remarkable resource for jazz musicians as well as students and educators. Berliner explores the alternative ways—aural, visual, kinetic, verbal, emotional, theoretical, associative—in which these performers conceptualize their music and describes the delicate interplay of soloist and ensemble in collective improvisation. Berliner's skillful integration of data concerning musical development, the rigorous practice and thought artists devote to jazz outside of performance, and the complexities of composing in the moment leads to a new understanding of jazz improvisation as a language, an aesthetic, and a tradition. This unprecedented journey to the heart of the jazz tradition will fascinate and enlighten musicians, musicologists, and jazz fans alike.
More Important Than the Music
Author: Bruce D. Epperson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022606767X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Today, jazz is considered high art, America’s national music, and the catalog of its recordings—its discography—is often taken for granted. But behind jazz discography is a fraught and highly colorful history of research, fanaticism, and the intense desire to know who played what, where, and when. This history gets its first full-length treatment in Bruce D. Epperson’s More Important Than the Music. Following the dedicated few who sought to keep jazz’s legacy organized, Epperson tells a fascinating story of archival pursuit in the face of negligence and deception, a tale that saw curses and threats regularly employed, with fisticuffs and lawsuits only slightly rarer. Epperson examines the documentation of recorded jazz from its casual origins as a novelty in the 1920s and ’30s, through the overwhelming deluge of 12-inch vinyl records in the middle of the twentieth century, to the use of computers by today’s discographers. Though he focuses much of his attention on comprehensive discographies, he also examines the development of a variety of related listings, such as buyer’s guides and library catalogs, and he closes with a look toward discography’s future. From the little black book to the full-featured online database, More Important Than the Music offers a history not just of jazz discography but of the profoundly human desire to preserve history itself.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022606767X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Today, jazz is considered high art, America’s national music, and the catalog of its recordings—its discography—is often taken for granted. But behind jazz discography is a fraught and highly colorful history of research, fanaticism, and the intense desire to know who played what, where, and when. This history gets its first full-length treatment in Bruce D. Epperson’s More Important Than the Music. Following the dedicated few who sought to keep jazz’s legacy organized, Epperson tells a fascinating story of archival pursuit in the face of negligence and deception, a tale that saw curses and threats regularly employed, with fisticuffs and lawsuits only slightly rarer. Epperson examines the documentation of recorded jazz from its casual origins as a novelty in the 1920s and ’30s, through the overwhelming deluge of 12-inch vinyl records in the middle of the twentieth century, to the use of computers by today’s discographers. Though he focuses much of his attention on comprehensive discographies, he also examines the development of a variety of related listings, such as buyer’s guides and library catalogs, and he closes with a look toward discography’s future. From the little black book to the full-featured online database, More Important Than the Music offers a history not just of jazz discography but of the profoundly human desire to preserve history itself.
The Origins of Cool in Postwar America
Author: Joel Dinerstein
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226152650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Cool. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came to define a global attitude and style. As Joel Dinerstein reveals in this dynamic book, cool began as a stylish defiance of racism, a challenge to suppressed sexuality, a philosophy of individual rebellion, and a youthful search for social change. Through eye-opening portraits of iconic figures, Dinerstein illuminates the cultural connections and artistic innovations among Lester Young, Humphrey Bogart, Robert Mitchum, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Marlon Brando, and James Dean, among others. We eavesdrop on conversations among Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Miles Davis, and on a forgotten debate between Lorraine Hansberry and Norman Mailer over the "white Negro" and black cool. We come to understand how the cool worlds of Beat writers and Method actors emerged from the intersections of film noir, jazz, and existentialism. Out of this mix, Dinerstein sketches nuanced definitions of cool that unite concepts from African-American and Euro-American culture: the stylish stoicism of the ethical rebel loner; the relaxed intensity of the improvising jazz musician; the effortless, physical grace of the Method actor. To be cool is not to be hip and to be hot is definitely not to be cool. This is the first work to trace the history of cool during the Cold War by exploring the intersections of film noir, jazz, existential literature, Method acting, blues, and rock and roll. Dinerstein reveals that they came together to create something completely new—and that something is cool.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226152650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Cool. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came to define a global attitude and style. As Joel Dinerstein reveals in this dynamic book, cool began as a stylish defiance of racism, a challenge to suppressed sexuality, a philosophy of individual rebellion, and a youthful search for social change. Through eye-opening portraits of iconic figures, Dinerstein illuminates the cultural connections and artistic innovations among Lester Young, Humphrey Bogart, Robert Mitchum, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Marlon Brando, and James Dean, among others. We eavesdrop on conversations among Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Miles Davis, and on a forgotten debate between Lorraine Hansberry and Norman Mailer over the "white Negro" and black cool. We come to understand how the cool worlds of Beat writers and Method actors emerged from the intersections of film noir, jazz, and existentialism. Out of this mix, Dinerstein sketches nuanced definitions of cool that unite concepts from African-American and Euro-American culture: the stylish stoicism of the ethical rebel loner; the relaxed intensity of the improvising jazz musician; the effortless, physical grace of the Method actor. To be cool is not to be hip and to be hot is definitely not to be cool. This is the first work to trace the history of cool during the Cold War by exploring the intersections of film noir, jazz, existential literature, Method acting, blues, and rock and roll. Dinerstein reveals that they came together to create something completely new—and that something is cool.
Jazz Theory
Author: Dariusz Terefenko
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135043019
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
Jazz Theory: From Basic to Advanced Study is a comprehensive textbook ideal for Jazz Theory courses or as a self-study guide for amateur and professional musicians. Written with the goal of bridging theory and practice, it provides a strong theoretical foundation beginning with music fundamentals through post-tonal theory, while integrating ear training, keyboard skills, and improvisation. It includes a DVD with 46 Play Along audio tracks and a companion website, which hosts the workbook, ear training exercises, and audio tracks of the musical examples featured in the book.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135043019
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
Jazz Theory: From Basic to Advanced Study is a comprehensive textbook ideal for Jazz Theory courses or as a self-study guide for amateur and professional musicians. Written with the goal of bridging theory and practice, it provides a strong theoretical foundation beginning with music fundamentals through post-tonal theory, while integrating ear training, keyboard skills, and improvisation. It includes a DVD with 46 Play Along audio tracks and a companion website, which hosts the workbook, ear training exercises, and audio tracks of the musical examples featured in the book.
The Oxford Companion to Jazz
Author: Bill Kirchner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195183592
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 865
Book Description
"Essays cover major historical trends and figures, discuss jazz in different countries, review the role of most instruments and consider the place of jazz in other arts, like dance, literature and film." N.Y. Times Book Rev. "This work is an effective single-volume device, leading current listeners to the music while including enough newer scholarship to retain the interest of connoisseurs." Libr J.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195183592
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 865
Book Description
"Essays cover major historical trends and figures, discuss jazz in different countries, review the role of most instruments and consider the place of jazz in other arts, like dance, literature and film." N.Y. Times Book Rev. "This work is an effective single-volume device, leading current listeners to the music while including enough newer scholarship to retain the interest of connoisseurs." Libr J.