Author: Ross Firestone
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393311686
Category : Band musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Before Elvis and rock & roll, Benny Goodman--the King of Swing--ruled American popular music. In this intimate biography, Firestone illuminates Goodman's enormous impact on American music and culture, offering a mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes look at this complicated, difficult jazz superstar. Photos.
Author: Lesa Cline-Ransome
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 082342362X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Teddy Wilson and Benny Goodman broke the color barrier in entertainment when they formed the Benny Goodman Trio with Gene Krupa. Here is the story of how two musical prodigies from very different backgrounds grew up, were brought together by the love of music, and helped to create the jazz style known as swing.
Author: Jon Hancock
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780956240408
Category : Big band music
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Author: Catherine Tackley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199911037
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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On January 16, 1938 Benny Goodman brought his swing orchestra to America's venerated home of European classical music, Carnegie Hall. The resulting concert - widely considered one of the most significant events in American music history - helped to usher jazz and swing music into the American cultural mainstream. This reputation has been perpetuated by Columbia Records' 1950 release of the concert on LP. Now, in Benny Goodman's Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert, jazz scholar and musician Catherine Tackley provides the first in depth, scholarly study of this seminal concert and recording. Combining rigorous documentary and archival research with close analysis of the recording, Tackley strips back the accumulated layers of interpretation and meaning to assess the performance in its original context, and explore what the material has come to represent in its recorded form. Taking a complete view of the concert, she examines the rich cultural setting in which it took place, and analyzes the compositions, arrangements and performances themselves, before discussing the immediate reception, and lasting legacy and impact of this storied event and album. As the definitive study of one of the most important recordings of the twentieth-century, Benny Goodman's Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert is a must-read for all serious jazz fans, musicians and scholars.
Author: James Lincoln Collier
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195067767
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Traces the rags-to-riches career of the clarinetist and his role in popularizing jazz music in the post-Depression 1930s, assesses his elusive personality, and reevaluates dozens of his landmark recordings
Author: Benny Goodman
Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9780793528028
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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(Instrumental Folio). 6 transcribed solos, including: Airmail Special * Flying Home * Mission To Moscow * Includes pull-out piano accompaniment section.
Author: Donald Russell Connor
Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press and the Institute of Jazz Studies
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Meticulously researched with Goodman's active participation, this book documents his recording dates, radio and television broadcasts, motion pictures, and public and private performances, citing their availability on record and audio-and videotape.
Author: Jeffrey Magee
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195358147
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
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If Benny Goodman was the "King of Swing," then Fletcher Henderson was the power behind the throne. Now Jeffrey Magee offers a fascinating account of Henderson's musical career, throwing new light on the emergence of modern jazz and the world that created it. Drawing on an unprecedented combination of sources, including sound recordings and hundreds of scores that have been available only since Goodman's death, Magee illuminates Henderson's musical output, from his early work as a New York bandleader, to his pivotal role in building the Kingdom of Swing. He shows how Henderson, standing at the forefront of the New York jazz scene during the 1920s and '30s, assembled the era's best musicians, simultaneously preserving jazz's distinctiveness and performing popular dance music that reached a wide audience. Magee reveals how, in Henderson's largely segregated musical world, black and white musicians worked together to establish jazz, how Henderson's style rose out of collaborations with many key players, how these players deftly combined improvised and written music, and how their work negotiated artistic and commercial impulses. Whether placing Henderson's life in the context of the Harlem Renaissance or describing how the savvy use of network radio made the Henderson-Goodman style a national standard, Jeffrey Magee brings to life a monumental musician who helped to shape an era. "An invaluable survey of Henderson's life and music." --Don Heckman, Los Angeles Times "Magee has written an important book, illuminating an era too often reduced to its most familiar names. Goodman might have been the King of Swing, but Henderson here emerges as that kingdom's chief architect." --Boston Globe "Excellent.... Jazz fans have waited 30 years for a trained musicologist...to evaluate Henderson's strengths and weaknesses and attempt to place him in the history of American music." --Will Friedwald, New York Sun
Author: Benny Goodman
Publisher: ARC Music Group
ISBN: 9780793549429
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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(Instrumental Jazz). This book, written by Benny Goodman himself, has been out of print for many years. It teaches the beginning student clarinet tone, style, technique and musicianship. It covers such basics as assembling and tuning the clarinet, proper position, scales, expression and many exercises. Features 11 tunes and includes a biography of his career up to 1940.
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Category : Wildlife management
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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