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The jazz tradition / Martin Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Martin, 1924-1992.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jazz--History and criticism.
- Jazz.
- Jazz musicians.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 301 pages)
- Edition:
- Second revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Now thoroughly revised and expanded, this new edition of The Jazz Tradition offers readers a unique history of jazz, portrayed through the lives of its greatest practitioners.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction: a matter of fundamentals
- 2. King Oliver: father figure
- 3. Jelly Roll Morton: three-minute form
- 4. Sidney Bechet: first and last
- 5. Louis Armstrong: style beyond style
- 6. Bix Beiderbecke: the white man's burden
- 7. Coleman Hawkins: some comments on a phoenix
- 8. Billie Holliday: actress without an act
- 9. Art Tatum: not for the left hand alone
- 10. Duke Ellington: form beyond form
- 11. Count Basie and Lester Young: style beyond swing
- 12. Charlie Parker: the burden of innovation
- 13. Thelonious Monk: modern jazz in search of maturity
- 14. John Lewis and the Modern Jazz Quartet: modern conservative
- 15. Sonny Rollins: spontaneous orchestration
- 16. Horace Silver: the meaning of craftsmanship
- 17. Miles Davis: a man walking
- 18. Sarah Vaughan: the meaning of self-discovery
- 19. Bill Evans: a need to know
- 20. Charlie Mingus: the pivotal instrument
- 21. John Coltrane: a man in the middle
- 22. Ornette Coleman: innovation from the source
- 23. Eric Dolphy: step by step
- 24. World Saxophone Quartet: four in one
- 25. The meaning of a music: an art for the century.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Discography: pages 269-284.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Joseph B. Glossberg Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1429407638
- 9781429407632
- Publisher Number:
- 99958072157
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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