Swing to bop : an oral history of the transition in jazz in the 1940s / Ira Gitler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gitler, Ira.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz--1941-1950--History and criticism.

Jazz.

Jazz musicians--United States--Interviews.

Jazz musicians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

More than fifty major figures in jazz preserve for posterity their recollections of how jazz moved from the big band era in the late 1930's and 1940's into the modern jazz period.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1. The Road; 2. Roots and Seeds; 3. Minton's and Monroe's; 4. Fifty-Second Street; 5. California; 6. Big-Band Bop; 7. The Bop Era; 8. End of an Era; Epilogue; Index;

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-802070-8

1-282-38427-9

9786612384271

1-4237-3620-6

0-19-536411-2

1-60129-668-1

OCLC:

476012470