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Author : Marc Myers
Release : 2013
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 784/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Why Jazz Happened by : Marc Myers
Download or read book Why Jazz Happened written by Marc Myers. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive social history looks at the many forces that shaped this most American of art forms and the many influences that gave rise to jazz's post-war styles.
Author : Marc Myers
Release : 2019-02-26
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 515/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Why Jazz Happened by : Marc Myers
Download or read book Why Jazz Happened written by Marc Myers. This book was released on 2019-02-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Jazz Happened is the first comprehensive social history of jazz. It provides an intimate and compelling look at the many forces that shaped this most American of art forms and the many influences that gave rise to jazz’s post-war styles. Rich with the voices of musicians, producers, promoters, and others on the scene during the decades following World War II, this book views jazz’s evolution through the prism of technological advances, social transformations, changes in the law, economic trends, and much more. In an absorbing narrative enlivened by the commentary of key personalities, Marc Myers describes the myriad of events and trends that affected the music's evolution, among them, the American Federation of Musicians strike in the early 1940s, changes in radio and concert-promotion, the introduction of the long-playing record, the suburbanization of Los Angeles, the Civil Rights movement, the “British invasion” and the rise of electronic instruments. This groundbreaking book deepens our appreciation of this music by identifying many of the developments outside of jazz itself that contributed most to its texture, complexity, and growth.
Author : Fred Hersch
Release : 2017-09-12
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 356/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Good Things Happen Slowly by : Fred Hersch
Download or read book Good Things Happen Slowly written by Fred Hersch. This book was released on 2017-09-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jazz could not contain Fred Hersch. Hersch’s prodigious talent as a sideman—a pianist who played with the giants of the twentieth century in the autumn of their careers, including Art Farmer and Joe Henderson—blossomed further in the eighties and beyond into a compositional genius that defied the boundaries of bop, sweeping in elements of pop, classical, and folk to create a wholly new music. Good Things Happen Slowly is his memoir. It’s the story of the first openly gay, HIV-positive jazz player; a deep look into the cloistered jazz culture that made such a status both transgressive and groundbreaking; and a profound exploration of how Hersch’s two-month-long coma in 2007 led to his creating some of the finest, most direct, and most emotionally compelling music of his career. Remarkable, and at times lyrical, Good Things Happen Slowly is an evocation of the twilight of Post-Stonewall New York, and a powerfully brave narrative of illness, recovery, music, creativity, and the glorious reward of finally becoming oneself.
Author : Nat Hentoff
Release : 2010-06-01
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 883/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis At the Jazz Band Ball by : Nat Hentoff
Download or read book At the Jazz Band Ball written by Nat Hentoff. This book was released on 2010-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nat Hentoff, renowned jazz critic, civil liberties activist, and fearless contrarian—"I’m a Jewish atheist civil-libertarian pro-lifer"—has lived through much of jazz’s history and has known many of jazz’s most important figures, often as friend and confidant. Hentoff has been a tireless advocate for the neglected parts of jazz history, including forgotten sidemen and -women. This volume includes his best recent work—short essays, long interviews, and personal recollections. From Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong to Ornette Coleman and Quincy Jones, Hentoff brings the jazz greats to life and traces their art to gospel, blues, and many other forms of American music. At the Jazz Band Ball also includes Hentoff’s keen, cosmopolitan observations on a wide range of issues. The book shows how jazz and education are a vital partnership, how free expression is the essence of liberty, and how social justice issues like health care and strong civil rights and liberties keep all the arts—and all members of society—strong.
Author : Nat Shapiro
Release : 2012-08-16
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 361/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Hear Me Talkin' to Ya by : Nat Shapiro
Download or read book Hear Me Talkin' to Ya written by Nat Shapiro. This book was released on 2012-08-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this marvelous oral history, the words of such legends as Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, and Billy Holiday trace the birth, growth, and changes in jazz over the years.
