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Central Avenue Sounds

1998 History
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Release : 1998
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Central Avenue Sounds by : Clora Bryant

Download or read book Central Avenue Sounds written by Clora Bryant. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here too are recollections of Hollywood's effects on local culture, the precedent-setting merger of the black and white musicians' unions, and the repercussions from the racism in the Los Angeles Police Department in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Los Angeles's Central Avenue Jazz

2014 History
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Release : 2014
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Los Angeles's Central Avenue Jazz by : Sean J. O'Connell

Download or read book Los Angeles's Central Avenue Jazz written by Sean J. O'Connell. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late 1910s until the early 1950s, a series of aggressive segregation policies toward Los Angeles's rapidly expanding African American community inadvertently led to one of the most culturally rich avenues in the United States. From Downtown Los Angeles to the largely undeveloped city of Watts to the south, Central Avenue became the center of the West Coast jazz scene, nurturing homegrown talents like Charles Mingus, Dexter Gordon, and Buddy Collette while also hosting countless touring jazz legends such as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Billie Holiday. Twenty-four hours a day, the sound of live jazz wafted out of nightclubs, restaurants, hotel lobbies, music schools, and anywhere else a jazz combo could squeeze in its instruments for nearly 50 years, helping to advance and define the sound of America's greatest musical contribution.

Central Avenue Sounds

1998 Women jazz musicians
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Release : 1998
Genre : Women jazz musicians
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Book Synopsis Central Avenue Sounds by : Hadda Brooks

Download or read book Central Avenue Sounds written by Hadda Brooks. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Dark Tree

2023-08-07 Music
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Release : 2023-08-07
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis The Dark Tree by : Steven L. Isoardi

Download or read book The Dark Tree written by Steven L. Isoardi. This book was released on 2023-08-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1960s, pianist Horace Tapscott gave up a successful career in Lionel Hampton’s band and returned to his home in Los Angeles to found the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, a community arts group that focused on providing community-oriented jazz and jazz training. Over the course of almost forty years, the Arkestra, together with the related Union of God’s Musicians and Artists Ascension collective, was at the forefront of the vital community-based arts movement in Black Los Angeles. Some three hundred artists—musicians, vocalists, poets, playwrights, painters, sculptors, and graphic artists—passed through these organizations, many ultimately remaining within the community and others moving on to achieve international fame. In The Dark Tree, Steven L. Isoardi draws on one hundred in-depth interviews with the Arkestra’s participants to tell the history of the important and largely overlooked community arts movement of Black Los Angeles. This revised and updated edition brings the story of the Arkestra up to date, as its ethos and aesthetic remain vital forces in jazz and popular music to this day.

Digging

2009-05-26 Music
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Release : 2009-05-26
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis Digging by : Amiri Baraka

Download or read book Digging written by Amiri Baraka. This book was released on 2009-05-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka has ranked among the most important commentators on African American music and culture. In this brilliant assemblage of his writings on music, the first such collection in nearly twenty years, Baraka blends autobiography, history, musical analysis, and political commentary to recall the sounds, people, times, and places he's encountered. As in his earlier classics, Blues People and Black Music, Baraka offers essays on the famous—Max Roach, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane—and on those whose names are known mainly by jazz aficionados—Alan Shorter, Jon Jang, and Malachi Thompson. Baraka's literary style, with its deep roots in poetry, makes palpable his love and respect for his jazz musician friends. His energy and enthusiasm show us again how much Coltrane, Albert Ayler, and the others he lovingly considers mattered. He brings home to us how music itself matters, and how musicians carry and extend that knowledge from generation to generation, providing us, their listeners, with a sense of meaning and belonging.

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