Author : Phil Schaap
Publisher :
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 28,82 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Jazz musicians
ISBN :
Roy Eldridge Festival Handbook and Discography
Phil Schaap
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Annual Review of Jazz Studies 14
Evan Spring
Author : Evan Spring
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,79 MB
Release : 2009-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 0810869209
The Annual Review of Jazz Studies provides a forum for the ever-expanding range and depth of jazz scholarship, from technical analyses to oral history to cultural interpretation. Addressed to specialists and fans alike, all volumes include feature articles, book reviews, and previously unpublished photographs.
Blue Rhythm Fantasy
John Wriggle
Author : John Wriggle
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 20,6 MB
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 025209882X
Behind the iconic jazz orchestras, vocalists, and stage productions of the Swing Era lay the talents of popular music's unsung heroes: the arrangers. John Wriggle takes you behind the scenes of New York City's vibrant entertainment industry of the 1930s and 1940s to uncover the lives and work of jazz arrangers, both black and white, who left an indelible mark on American music and culture. Blue Rhythm Fantasy traces the extraordinary career of arranger Chappie Willet--a collaborator of Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Gene Krupa, and many others--to revisit legendary Swing Era venues and performers from Harlem to Times Square. Wriggle's insightful music analyses of big band arranging techniques explore representations of cultural modernism, discourses on art and commercialism, conceptions of race and cultural identity, music industry marketing strategies, and stage entertainment variety genres. Drawing on archives, obscure recordings, untapped sources in the African American press, and interviews with participants, Blue Rhythm Fantasy is a long-overdue study of the arranger during this dynamic era of American music history.
All Music Guide
Vladimir Bogdanov
Author : Vladimir Bogdanov
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 1508 pages
File Size : 33,78 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780879306274
Arranged in sixteen musical categories, provides entries for twenty thousand releases from four thousand artists, and includes a history of each musical genre.
All Music Guide to Soul
Vladimir Bogdanov
Author : Vladimir Bogdanov
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 4139 pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1617134961
This comprehensive guide is a must-have for the legions of fans of the beloved and perennially popular music known as soul and rhythm & blues. The latest in the definitive All Music Guide series, the All Music Guide to Soul offers nearly 8 500 entertaining and informative reviews that lead readers to the best recordings by more than 1 500 artists and help them find new music to explore. Informative biographies, essays and “music maps” trace R&B's growth from its roots in blues and gospel through its flowering in Memphis and Motown, to its many branches today. Complete discographies note bootlegs, important out-of-print albums, and import-only releases. “Extremely valuable and exhaustive.” – The Christian Science Monitor
The Jazz Discography
Tom Lord
Author : Tom Lord
Publisher : West Vancouver, B.C. : Lord Music Reference ; Redwood, N.Y. : North Country Distributors, c1992- .
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 28,88 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Music
ISBN :
A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers
Will Friedwald
Author : Will Friedwald
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 19,4 MB
Release : 2010-11-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 0307379892
Will Friedwald’s illuminating, opinionated essays—provocative, funny, and personal—on the lives and careers of more than three hundred singers anatomize the work of the most important jazz and popular performers of the twentieth century. From giants like Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, and Judy Garland to lesser-known artists like Jeri Southern and Joe Mooney, they have created a body of work that continues to please and inspire. Here is the most extensive biographical and critical survey of these singers ever written, as well as an essential guide to the Great American Songbook and those who shaped the way it has been sung. The music crosses from jazz to pop and back again, from the songs of Irving Berlin and W. C. Handy through Stephen Sondheim and beyond, bringing together straightforward jazz and pop singers (Billie Holiday, Perry Como); hybrid artists who moved among genres and combined them (Peggy Lee, Mel Tormé); the leading men and women of Broadway and Hollywood (Ethel Merman, Al Jolson); yesterday’s vaudeville and radio stars (Sophie Tucker, Eddie Cantor); and today’s cabaret artists and hit-makers (Diana Krall, Michael Bublé). Friedwald has also written extended pieces on the most representative artists of five significant genres that lie outside the songbook: Bessie Smith (blues), Mahalia Jackson (gospel), Hank Williams (country and western), Elvis Presley (rock ’n’ roll), and Bob Dylan (folk-rock). Friedwald reconsiders the personal stories and professional successes and failures of all these artists, their songs, and their performances, appraising both the singers and their music by balancing his opinions with those of fellow musicians, listeners, and critics. This magisterial reference book—ten years in the making—will delight and inform anyone with a passion for the iconic music of America, which continues to resonate throughout our popular culture.
The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide
John Swenson
Author : John Swenson
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 32,83 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Music
ISBN :
The most comprehensive guide to jazz and blues recordings in print, including reviews of more than ten thousand albums. An essential book for any music fan's library.
All Music Guide to the Blues
Vladimir Bogdanov
Author : Vladimir Bogdanov
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 30,12 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780879307363
Reviews and rates the best recordings of 8,900 blues artists in all styles.
Conversations in Jazz
Ralph J. Gleason
Author : Ralph J. Gleason
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,24 MB
Release : 2016-05-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 030022074X
During his nearly forty years as a music journalist, Ralph J. Gleason recorded many in-depth interviews with some of the greatest jazz musicians of all time. These informal sessions, conducted mostly in Gleason’s Berkeley, California, home, have never been transcribed and published in full until now. This remarkable volume, a must-read for any jazz fan, serious musician, or musicologist, reveals fascinating, little-known details about these gifted artists, their lives, their personas, and, of course, their music. Bill Evans discusses his battle with severe depression, while John Coltrane talks about McCoy Tyner's integral role in shaping the sound of the Coltrane quartet, praising the pianist enthusiastically. Included also are interviews with Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Quincy Jones, Jon Hendricks, and the immortal Duke Ellington, plus seven more of the most notable names in twentieth-century jazz.