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Serie: Studies in jazz
GebondenEngels9780810876927
9-7-2010
This is the first biography of jazz clarinetist Kenny Davern. Drawing from Davern's many interviews and the recollections of his friends and family, Meyer tells the story of the man and his music and why both were unique and irreplaceable. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780810859074
6-11-2007
Jazz Fiction traces the history of jazz stories and novels from the beginning to the present and provides discussions of several persistent topics and genres within this history. Meer
GebondenEngels9780810876859
25-6-2010
This work brings to light nearly 100 'new' recordings, broadcasts, and films discovered since the last Benny Goodman bio-discography published in 1996. Meer
GebondenEngels9780810837140
29-3-2000
An entertaining and unpretentious chronicle of a life in American popular music, recounted with wit and honesty. Bennett evokes a bygone era when 'territory' and 'name' bands—each with its own 'girl singer'—crisscrossed the country. Meer
GebondenEngels9780810859463
27-6-2008
Mission Impossible: My Life in Music is the engaging autobiography of Lalo Schifrin, the musician, conductor, and composer of more than 60 jazz and classical works and over 100 film and television scores including Mission Impossible. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780810841550
1-1-1996
Now in paperback! This volume sums up features of Parker's style and discusses his contribution in the context of Western music history. Paperback edition available 2001. Meer
GebondenEngels9780810835368
23-12-1998
The Dorsey brothers were prominent members of the Big Band fraternity in the late 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. This bio-discographical text spans Jimmy Dorsey's career as a musician, orchestra leader and composer. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780810850071
4-10-2004
This biography reveals the lost history of the life of the first Black female international superstar. Mills was lionized by the crowned heads in Europe and opened doors for generations of Black female stars from Lena Horn to Diana Ross. Meer
GebondenEngels9780810823266
13-6-1995
Teddy Reig (1917-1984) was a larger-than-life character, a self-described hustler who had a profound effect on the music world from the 1940s to the 1970s. Meer
GebondenEngels9780810826915
1-10-1993
Duvivier's reflections on growing up in Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s, the evolution of the bass, life in the commercial studios, and his memories of close associates. Meer
GebondenEngels9780810835702
5-4-2000
Contrary to the widely held opinion that most of our hit and standard songs were composed by a handful of top writers—Berlin, Gershwin, Kern, Porter, and Rodgers—the fact is that the vast majority of them were written by relatively unknown composers. Meer
GebondenEngels9780810840737
28-5-2002
This is a critical survey and discography of Louis Armstrong's most formative phase - the period during which he worked alongside such luminaries as King Oliver, Bessie Smith, Sidney Bechet, Fletcher Henderson and Earl Hines. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780810849976
27-8-2004
Fifties Jazz Talkis a collection of interviews with musicians who first came to prominence during the 1950's. Meer
GebondenEngels9781442242463
6-8-2015
In Rhythm Is My Beat: Jazz Guitar Great Freddie Green and the Count Basie Sound, Alfred Green tells the story of his father, rhythm guitarist Freddie Green, whose guitar work served as the pulse of the Count Basie Band. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781442277762
8-9-2016
Jazz Child: A Portrait of Sheila Jordan is the complete biography of the first female jazz vocalist to record on the prestigious Blue Note record label. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781442243545
1-10-2014
Sandke tackles the stubborn and controversial question of whether jazz is the product of an insulated African-American environment, shut off from the rest of society by strictures of segregation and discrimination; or whether it is more properly understood as the juncture of a variety of influences under the broader umbrella of American culture. Meer