Visions of Jazz The First Century

Name: Visions of Jazz The First Century
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ISBN: 9780195132410

ISBN-10: 0195132416

ISBN-13: 9780195132410

Edition: 1999

Authors: Gary Giddins

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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 jazz to include such crucial American musicians as Irving Berlin, Rosemary Clooney, and Frank…

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List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/18/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 704
Size: 9.21" wide x 5.91" long x 1.89" tall
Weight: 2.134
Language: English

Gary Giddins lives in New York City.



Introduction



Precursors



Native Wits




Come Sunday




Signifying




Birth of the Blues




Ragging the Alley




The Bard of Basin Street




The Mother of Us All




Pithecanthropus Jazzman




A New Music



Red Hot Dandy




Working Man Blues




The Once and Future King




Part 1: The Poker Game




Patriarch




Seer




King of the Savoy




Comedy Tonight




A Popular Music



The Mirror of Swing




For Listeners, Too




Westward Ho! and Back




Swinging the Blues




Jazz




Joy




Cinderella's Last Stand




Chameleon




Muzak Man




The Ultimate in Theater




A Modern Music



Part 2: The Enlightenment




Passion Flower




Chasin' the Birdaphone




Flying Home




The Coup and After




Divine




Rhythm-a-ning




Strictly Confidential




North of the Border




Big




Resurgence




A Mainstream Music



Kinds of Blues




Beyond Cool




Jazz Messenger




Lady of Pain




Modern Jazz Quartet The First Forty Years



The Comeback King




Seasons




The Muse Is Heard




The Queen




One-Man Band




An Alternative Music



Sui Generis




Bigger Than Death




Outer Curve




This Is Our Music




Metamorphosis




Part 3: At the Pulpit




Meet This Composer




The Audience




The Big Top




Sweet Agony




A Struggling Music



Out of Africa




The Late Hurrah




American Echoes




Back Home Again




Gotham's Minstrel




Last Connections




The Middle Passage




Profuse




Brotherly Love




Strong Wind Blowing




A Traditional Music



Afrobeats




Going Her Way




Tributes




Standards and Practices




The Long Apprenticeship




The Parameters of Hip




Tenor of the Times




Taking Time




All of the Above




Interpreted




A Different Songbook




Musically Correct



Acknowledgments


Index of Names


Index of Songs and Selected Albums