[PDF] Blowin The Blues Away eBook

Author : Travis A. Jackson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 17,65 MB
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 0520951921

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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.

Author : Bob Zottola
Publisher :
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 46,6 MB
Release : 2015-08-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781941566831

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(Music Minus One). Eight blues classics presented in new engravings and a CD with performance and backing tracks for each song. Includes: The Twister * Dealin' * Empty Street * Blue Greens 'n Beans * Hip Tip * Gospel Truth * Earthy * Blue Gene.

Author : Travis A. Jackson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 28,61 MB
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 0520270444

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“Blowin' the Blues Away makes a major contribution to our understanding of the contexts and meanings of jazz performance. Jackson makes his own mark by not only documenting 'the jazz scene' in New York but also by providing a critical vocabulary and methodology for future researchers. As such, Jackson’s book provides the most in-depth understanding of the rituals and meanings of jazz performance to date." —Farah Jasmine Griffin, author of Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever

Author : Graham Marsh
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780811836883

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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.

Author : Maxine Gordon
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,87 MB
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520350790

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Tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon was one of the major innovators of modern jazz. In a context of biography, history, and memoir, Maxine Gordon has completed the book that her late husband began, weaving his "solo" turns with her voice and a chorus of voices from past and present. She shows that his image of the cool jazzman fails to come to terms with the three-dimensional man full of humor and wisdom, a figure who struggled to reconcile being both a creative outsider who broke the rules and a comforting insider who was a son, father, husband, and world citizen. --

Author : Martin Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 32,61 MB
Release : 1993-01-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 0195360176

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When it was first published in 1970, this lively and fascinating book was greeted with almost universal acclaim. The American Record Guide called it "the best one-volume of jazz we have," and the Jazz Journal praised it as "a brilliant study of the whole of jazz." Perhaps the greatest tribute was paid by Louis Armstrong himself who raved: "it held Ol' Satch spellbound." Now thoroughly revised and expanded, the new edition of The Jazz Tradition offers readers a unique history of jazz, as seen through its greatest practitioners. An original blend of history and criticism, this book explores the work of nearly two dozen leading musicians and ensembles that have shaped the course of jazz, from King Oliver's Creole Jazz band to the present day. Couched in the same readable, non-technical language that made earlier editions so popular, The Jazz Tradition adds new chapters on some of the more recent giants of jazz, performers like pianist Bill Evans, versatile horn player and saxophonist Eric Dolphy, and the World Saxophone Quartet, and considerably expands the chapter devoted to Count Basie. In addition, a foreword by Richard Crawford introduces the new edition, and the discographies on each performer have been fully brought up to date. Written by an author The Washington Post lauded as "the most knowledgeable, open-minded, and perceptive American jazz critic today," The Jazz Tradition belongs in the library of all lovers of this distinctly American sound.

Author : Martin Popoff
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 4838 pages
File Size : 18,70 MB
Release : 2009-09-08
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1440229163

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Whether you're cleaning out a closet, basement or attic full of records, or you're searching for hidden gems to build your collection, you can depend on Goldmine Record Album Price Guide to help you accurately identify and appraise your records in order to get the best price. • Knowledge is power, so power-up with Goldmine! • 70,000 vinyl LPs from 1948 to present • Hundreds of new artists • Detailed listings with current values • Various artist collections and original cast recordings from movies, televisions and Broadway • 400 photos • Updated state-of-the-market reports • New feature articles • Advice on buying and selling Goldmine Grading Guide - the industry standard

Author : Dale Chapman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,13 MB
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520279379

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Introduction : banks, bonds, and blues -- "Controlled freedom" : jazz, risk, and political economy -- "Homecoming" : Dexter Gordon and the 1970s fiscal crisis in New York City -- Selling the songbook: the political economy of Verve Records (1956-1990) -- Bronfman's bauble: the corporate history of the Verve Music Group (1990-2005) -- Jazz and the right to the city : jazz venues and the legacy of urban redevelopment in California -- "The Yoshi's effect" : jazz, speculative urbanism, and urban redevelopment in contemporary San Francisco