Creating jazz counterpoint : New Orleans, barbershop harmony, and the blues / Vic Hobson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hobson, Vic, author.

Series:

American made music series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz--Louisiana--New Orleans--History and criticism.

Jazz.

Blues (Music).

Louisiana--New Orleans.

Blues (Music)--Louisiana--New Orleans--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

x, 168 pages : 1 illustration, music ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2014]

Summary:

The book Jazzmen (1939) claimed New Orleans as the birthplace of jazz and introduced the legend of Buddy Bolden as the "First Man of Jazz." Much of the information that the book relied on came from a highly controversial source: Bunk Johnson. He claimed to have played with Bolden and that together they had pioneered jazz. Using oral histories, the Jazzmen interview notes, and unpublished archive material, this book confirms that Bunk Johnson did play with Bolden. This confirmation, in turn, has profound implications for Johnson's recorded legacy in describing the music of the early years of New Orleans jazz. How early jazz musicians improvised together and how the blues became a part of jazz has until now been a mystery. Part of the reason New Orleans jazz developed as it did is that all the prominent jazz pioneers, including Buddy Bolden, Bunk Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Johnny Dodds, and Kid Ory, sang in barbershop (or barroom) quartets. This book describes in both historical and musical terms how the practices of quartet singing were converted to the instruments of a jazz band, and how this, in turn, produced collectively improvised, blues-inflected jazz, that unique sound of New Orleans. Book jacket.

Contents:

Jazzmen

The Bolden legend

Just bunk?

Cracking-up a chord

Bill Russell's American music

The "creoles of color"

The Original Dixieland Jazz Band

New Orleans : capital of jazz

The blues and New Orleans jazz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Hobson, Vic. Creating jazz counterpoint

ISBN:

9781617039911

1617039918

OCLC:

857234357