| Description |
ix, 495 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Beginnings -- Ragtime -- The Blues -- Early Bands -- New Orleans -- Buddy Bolden -- The Early Recordings -- The ODJB and other New Orleans Bands -- New York Performers -- Jelly Roll Morton -- "King" Joe Oliver -- Sidney Bechet -- Louis Armstrong -- Armstrong with Fletcher Henderson -- Bessie Smith and the Blues Singers -- The Hot Fives and Sevens -- Armstrong the Celebrity -- Jazzin' in the Twenties -- Red Nichols and Other White Innovators -- Harlem Stride Piano -- Earl Hines -- Duke Ellington -- Strayhorn, Blanton, and Webster Join the Band -- Ridin' in Rhythm: the Thirties and Swing -- Fletcher Henderson -- Black Bands and Soloists -- Jimmy Lunceford -- Cab Calloway -- Kansas City Bands -- Benny Goodman -- Count Basie -- The Small Bands and Virtuoso Soloists of the Thirties -- Art Tatum, Roy Eldridge, Django Reinhardt -- Coleman Hawkins -- Lester Young and Billie Holiday -- The Scene Changes: the Forties and Bebop -- Revivalism in Jazz -- The New Generation -- Dizzy Gillespie -- Mary Lou Williams, Bud Powell, and Thelonious Monk -- The Mixed Acceptance of Bebop -- Big Bands -- More Bop Soloists -- Charlie Parker -- Early Years -- Bebop Recordings -- The 1950s -- The Fifties: Cool and Third Stream -- Miles Davis, Gil Evans, and the Birth of the Cool -- Gerry Mulligan and the MJQ -- The Tristano School -- Art Pepper, Stan Getz, and Dave Brubeck -- The Third Stream -- Mainstream, Hard Bop, and Beyond -- Sonny Rollins -- Art Blakey and Horace Silver -- Charles Mingus and Eric Dolphy |
| Summary |
"This fascinating volume provides a concise, literate, accurate, and up-to-date look at the history of jazz and its major figures. The authors put biases and personal preferences aside to concentrate on the music that has had the most impact on musicians as well as the general public. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Jazz |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Discography: pages 470-482 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-469) and index |
| Subject |
Jazz -- History and criticism.
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Jazz.
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| Author |
Hazell, Ed.
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Ullman, Michael, 1945-
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| LC no. |
92037368 |
| ISBN |
0130927767 (case) |
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0135121957 (paper) |
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