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Author: Ted Drozdowski
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 360
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Billboard illustrated encyclopedia of jazz & blues is organized chronologically by decade. Each section gives a historical overview plus an A to Z of influential artists and their key recordings.
Author: the late Leonard Feather
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999-11-18
Total Pages: 739
ISBN-13: 0199729077
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDo you want to know when Duke Ellington was king of The Cotton Club? Have you ever wondered how old Miles Davis was when he got his first trumpet? From birth dates to gig dates and from recordings to television specials, Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler have left no stone unturned in their quest for accurate, detailed information on the careers of 3.300 jazz musicians from around the world. We learn that Duke Ellington worked his magic at The Cotton Club from 1927 to 1931, and that on Miles Davis's thirteenth birthday, his father gave him his first trumpet. Jazz is fast moving, and this edition clearly and concisely maps out an often dizzying web of professional associations. We find, for instance, that when Miles Davis was a St. Louis teenager he encountered Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie for the first time. This meeting proved fateful, and by 1945 a nineteen-year-old Davis had left Juilliard to play with Parker on 52nd Street. Knowledge of these professional alliances, along with the countless others chronicled in this book, are central to tracing the development of significant jazz movements, such as the "cool jazz" that became one of Miles Davis's hallmarks. Arranged alphabetically according to last name, each entry of this book chronologically lists the highlights of every jazz musician's career. Highly accessible and vigorously researched, The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz is, quite simply, the most comprehensive jazz encyclopedia available.
Author: Howard Mandel
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781844511815
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJazz & Blues The origins of Western popular music can often be traced back to the two strains of African-American music that developed towards the end of the nineteenth century - jazz, hot from the urban melting pot of New Orleans, and blues, from the desolate landscapes of Texas and the Mississippi Delta. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz & Blues explores the history and developments of jazz and blues, from New Orleans marching bands and the slave hollers of the Mississippi cotton fields to fusion jazz and modern-day electric blues heroes. Organised by decade, each chapter includes background information and discussion of how the music evolved during the period, while biographical sections explore the lives of important musical figures. The informative text is supported by hundreds of atmospheric photographs, painting a vivid picture of the people and places that have informed the development of jazz and blues music over the years. Written by a team of experts, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz & Blues is an ideal reference volume for anyone with an interest in these two most influential and enduring of musical styles.
Author: Paul Du Noyer
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 0823078698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContaining more than twelve thousand artists from every genre, this comprehensive musical reference furnishes valuable information on each musical form, as well as profiles of musicians, an instrument glossary, a detailed bibliography, and a tutorial on the fundamentals of reading music.
Author: Howard Mandel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-04-26
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1135886369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMiles Davis, Ornette Coleman, and Cecil Taylor revolutionized music from the end of the twentieth century into the twenty-first, expanding on jazz traditions with distinctly new concepts of composition, improvisation, instrumentation, and performance. Miles, Ornette, Cecil is the first book to connect these three icons of the avant-garde, examining why they are lionized by some critics and reviled by others, while influencing musicians across such divides as genre, geography, and racial and ethnic backgrounds.
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Published: 1968-03-23
Total Pages: 88
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
Author: Robert Ford
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-03-31
Total Pages: 2397
ISBN-13: 1135865078
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Blues Bibliography, Second Edition is a revised and enlarged version of the definitive blues bibliography first published in 1999. Material previously omitted from the first edition has now been included, and the bibliography has been expanded to include works published since then. In addition to biographical references, this work includes entries on the history and background of the blues, instruments, record labels, reference sources, regional variations and lyric transcriptions and musical analysis. The Blues Bibliography is an invaluable guide to the enthusiastic market among libraries specializing in music and African-American culture and among individual blues scholars.
Author: Brian Case
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Howard Mandel
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a series of vividly drawn portraits and in-depth interviews with musicians, composers, and others in the genre, this book takes an exciting look at the contemporary jazz scene and provides an invaluable road map to the music of tomorrow.
Author: Clarence Bernard Henry
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-08-15
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 1317228391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis research and information guide provides a wide range of scholarship on the life, career, and musical legacy of Miles Davis, and is compiled for an interdisciplinary audience of scholars in jazz and popular music, musicology, and cultural studies. It serves as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars sorting through the massive amount of material in the field.
