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Visions of jazz : the first century / Gary Giddins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Giddins, Gary.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Composers--Biography.
- Composers.
- Jazz musicians--Biography.
- Jazz musicians.
- Jazz--History and criticism.
- Jazz.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (703 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Summary:
- Poised to become a classic of jazz literature, Visions of Jazz: The First Century offers seventy-nine chapters illuminating the lives of virtually all the major figures in jazz history. From Louis Armstrong's renegade-style trumpet playing to Sarah Vaughan's operatic crooning, and from the swinging elegance of Duke Ellington to the pioneering experiments of Ornette Coleman, jazz critic Gary Giddins continually astonishes the reader with his unparalleled insight. Writing with the grace and wit that have endeared his prose to Village Voice readers for decades, Giddins also widens the scope of ja
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Introduction; PART ONE: PRECURSORS; PART TWO: A NEW MUSIC; PART THREE: A POPULAR MUSIC; PART FOUR: A MODERN MUSIC; PART FIVE: A MAINSTREAM MUSIC; PART SIX: AN ALTERNATIVE MUSIC; PART SEVEN: A STRUGGLING MUSIC; PART EIGHT: A TRADITIONAL MUSIC; Acknowledgments; Index of Names; Index of Songs and Selected Albums
- Notes:
- Includes indexes.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-987953-2
- 1-283-00982-X
- 0-19-985752-0
- OCLC:
- 652214671
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