ISBN: 9780195043129

Here is the book jazz lovers have eagerly awaited, the second volume of Gunther Schuller's monumental The History of Jazz. When the first volume, Early Jazz, appeared two decades ago, it … Mehr…

Here is the book jazz lovers have eagerly awaited, the second volume of Gunther Schuller's monumental The History of Jazz. When the first volume, Early Jazz, appeared two decades ago, it immediately established itself as one of the seminal works on American music. Nat Hentoff called it "a remarkable breakthrough in musical analysis of jazz," and Frank Conroy, in The New York Times Book Review, praised it as "definitive.... A remarkable book by any standard...unparalleled in the literature of jazz." It has been universally recognized as the basic musical analysis of jazz from its beginnings until 1933. The Swing Era focuses on that extraordinary period in American musical history—1933 to 1945—when jazz was synonymous with America's popular music, its social dances and musical entertainment. The book's thorough scholarship, critical perceptions, and great love and respect for jazz puts this well-remembered era of American music into new and revealing perspective. It examines how the arrangements of Fletcher Henderson and Eddie Sauter—whom Schuller equates with Richard Strauss as "a master of harmonic modulation"—contributed to Benny Goodman's finest work...how Duke Ellington used the highly individualistic trombone trio of Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton, Juan Tizol, and Lawrence Brown to enrich his elegant compositions...how Billie Holiday developed her horn-like instrumental approach to singing...and how the seminal compositions and arrangements of the long-forgotten John Nesbitt helped shape Swing Era styles through their influence on Gene Gifford and the famous Casa Loma Orchestra. Schuller also provides serious reappraisals of such often neglected jazz figures as Cab Calloway, Henry "Red" Allen, Horace Henderson, Pee Wee Russell, and Joe Mooney. Much of the book's focus is on the famous swing bands of the time, which were the essence of the Swing Era. There are the great black bands—Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Earl Hines, Andy Kirk, and the often superb but little known "territory bands"—and popular white bands like Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsie, Artie Shaw, and Woody Herman, plus the first serious critical assessment of that most famous of Swing Era bandleaders, Glenn Miller. There are incisive portraits of the great musical soloists—such as Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Bunny Berigan, and Jack Teagarden—and such singers as Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, and Helen Forest. New Textbooks>Hardcover>Music>Blues,Jazz>Blues,Jazz, Oxford University Press Core >2 >T<

ISBN: 9780195043129

ISBN-13: 9780195043129, 978-0195043129. The Swing Era. Publisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom. Format: Hardback. The Swing Era Please note: this item is printed on demand a… Mehr…

ISBN-13: 9780195043129, 978-0195043129. The Swing Era. Publisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom. Format: Hardback. The Swing Era Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days).The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945Author(s): Gunther SchullerFormat: HardbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, United KingdomImprint: Oxford University PressISBN-13: 9780195043129, 978-0195043129SynopsisThis second volume of Gunther Schuller's comprehensive history of jazz covers the period from the 1930s to the late 1940s, decades which saw the transition from big band swing to the virtuoso bop style. The first half of the book concentrates on the band leaders, singers, and composers who dominated the popular music of their day: the jazz aristocracy of Ellington, Basie, and Goodman, as well as major soloists such as Billie Holliday, Art Tatum, Coleman Hawkins, andLester Young.The second half focuses on the origins and early development of bop, the major jazz form of the 1940s, and its two great exponents, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie., Neu, Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice], Publication Year: 1989, Format: Hardcover, Language: English, Book Title: The Swing Era: the Development of Jazz, 1930-1945, Item Height: 239mm, Topic: Music, Item Width: 163mm, Item Weight: 1474g, Number of Pages: 938 Pages, Oxford University Press<

1989, ISBN: 019504312X

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