Jazz Anecdotes
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Fish And Wildlife News
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Fish And Wildlife News written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Wildlife management categories.
Jazz Anecdotes
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Author : Bill Crow
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2005-10-15
Jazz Anecdotes written by Bill Crow and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Drawing on a rich verbal tradition, bassist and jazz writer Bill Crow has culled stories from a wide variety of sources, including interviews, biographies and a remarkable oral history collection to paint fascinating and very human portraits of jazz musicians. Organized around general topics--teaching and learning, life on the road, prejudice and discrimination, and the importance of a good nickname--Jazz Anecdotes shows the jazz world as it really is.--From publisher's description.
Jazz Anecdotes
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Author : Bill Crow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Jazz Anecdotes written by Bill Crow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Jazz categories.
This new edition of 'Jazz Anecdotes' includes 150 new anecdotes about jazz musicians both classic and contemporary. There are stories about Benny Goodman, Billy Taylor, Jackie Gleason, Duke Ellington, and Wynton Marsalis.
Jazz Anecdotes
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Author : Bill Crow
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2005-10-15
Jazz Anecdotes written by Bill Crow and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-15 with Music categories.
When jazz musicians get together, they often delight one another with stories about the great, or merely remarkable, players and singers they've worked with. One good story leads to another until someone says, "Somebody ought to wrie these down!" With Jazz Anecdotes, somebody finally has. Drawing on a rich verbal tradition, bassist and jazz writer Bill Crow has culled stories from a wide variety of sources, including interviews, biographies and a remarkable oral history collection, which resides at the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University, to paint fascinating and very human portraits of jazz musicians. Organized around general topics--teaching and learning, life on the road, prejudice and discrimination, and the importance of a good nickname--Jazz Anecdotes shows the jazz world as it really is. In this fully updated edition, which contains over 150 new anecdotes and new topics like Hiring and Firing, Crow regales us with new stories of such jazz greats as Benny Goodman, Chet Baker, Ravi Coltrane, Buddy Rich and Paul Desmond. He offers extended sections on old favorites--Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, and the fabulous Eddie Condon, who seems to have lived his entire life with the anecdotist in mind. With its unique blend of sparkling dialogue and historical and social insight, Jazz Anecdotes will delight anyone who loves a good story. It offers a fresh perspective on the joys and hardships of a musician's life as well as a rare glimpse of the personalities who created America's most distinctive music.
Play The Way You Feel
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Author : Kevin Whitehead
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-04-01
Play The Way You Feel written by Kevin Whitehead and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-01 with Music categories.
Jazz stories have been entwined with cinema since the inception of jazz film genre in the 1920s, giving us origin tales and biopics, spectacles and low-budget quickies, comedies, musicals, and dramas, and stories of improvisers and composers at work. And the jazz film has seen a resurgence in recent years--from biopics like Miles Ahead and HBO's Bessie, to dramas Whiplash and La La Land. In Play the Way You Feel, author and jazz critic Kevin Whitehead offers a comprehensive guide to these films and other media from the perspective of the music itself. Spanning 93 years of film history, the book looks closely at movies, cartoons, and a few TV shows that tell jazz stories, from early talkies to modern times, with an eye to narrative conventions and common story points. Examining the ways historical films have painted a clear picture of the past or overtly distorted history, Play the Way You Feel serves up capsule discussions of sundry topics including Duke Ellington's social life at the Cotton Club, avant-garde musical practices in 1930s vaudeville, and Martin Scorsese's improvisatory method on the set of New York, New York. Throughout the book, Whitehead brings the same analytical bent and concise, witty language listeners know from his jazz segments on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. He investigates well-known songs, traces the development of the stock jazz film ending, and offers fresh, often revisionist takes on works by such directors as Howard Hawks, John Cassavetes, Shirley Clarke, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, Spike Lee, Robert Altman, Woody Allen and Damien Chazelle. In all, Play the Way You Feel is a feast for film-genre fanatics and movie-watching jazz enthusiasts.
From Birdland To Broadway
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Author : Bill Crow
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1993-09-09
From Birdland To Broadway written by Bill Crow and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-09-09 with Music categories.
In the 1950s, New York City's Birdland was the center of the world of modern jazz--and a revelation to Bill Crow, a wet-behind-the-ears twenty-two-year-old from Washington State. Located on Broadway between 52nd and 53rd streets, the club named for the incomparable Charlie "Bird" Parker boasted lifesize photo murals of modern jazzmen like Dizzy Gillespie, Lennie Tristano, and, of course, Bird himself, looming large against jet black walls. Exotic live birds perched in cages behind the bar. The midget master of ceremonies, 3'9" Pee Wee Marquette, dressed in a zoot suit and loud tie, smoked huge cigars and screeched mispronounced introductions into the microphone. And the jazz-struck young Crow would park in the bleachers till 4 am, blissfully enveloped by the heady music of Bird, Bud Powell, Max Roach, and a host of other jazz giants. From Birdland to Broadway is an enthralling insider's account of four decades of a life in jazz. Bill Crow, journeyman bass player, superb storyteller, and author of the successful Jazz Anecdotes, here narrates many moving and delightful tales of the pioneers of modern jazz he played with and was befriended by. We find Dizzy Gillespie, with whom Crow, because of prior commitments, regretfully declined steady work, dancing at the Royal Roost, Stan Getz sadly teetering on the brink of losing himself to drugs, and Harry Belafonte (known then as "the Cinderella Gentleman") running a lunch counter in New York's Sheridan Square between music dates. And we also witness many of the highlights of Crow's career, such as in 1955 when the Marian McPartland Trio (with Crow on bass) was named "Small Group of the Year" by Metronome; Crow playing with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet at venues like Storyville in Boston and Harlem's Apollo Theater (where they appeared with Dinah Washington); and the tour of the Soviet Union with Benny Goodman, a journey that might have been a high point of Crow's travels abroad but was marred by Goodman's legendary mistreatment of his band. Moving beyond jazz clubs to the Broadway concert pit and a variety of studio gigs in the '60s, Crow encounters actors such as Yul Brynner and pop-rock acts like Simon and Garfunkel. From the great to the near-great, from Billie Holiday to Judy Holliday, Bill Crow's wealth of personal anecdotes takes the reader from Birdland, to the Half Note, to the Playboy Club, to the footlights of Broadway. This revealing book is a marvelous portrait of the jazz world, told by someone who's been there.
Harlem In Montmartre
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Author : William A. Shack
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2001-09-04
Harlem In Montmartre written by William A. Shack and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09-04 with History categories.
In 'Harlem in Montmartre', William Shack takes a look at this extraordinary cultural moment, one in which African American musicians could flee the racism of the United States to pursue their lives and art in the relatively free context of bohemian Europe.
The Jazz Stories Project
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Author : David Haney
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-09-08
The Jazz Stories Project written by David Haney and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-08 with categories.
Compilation of over 100 stories by and about famous and unknown jazz artists. From the mouths of people such as Sonny Rollins, Annie Ross, and many others.
The Story Of Jazz
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Author : Marshall Winslow Stearns
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1970
The Story Of Jazz written by Marshall Winslow Stearns and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Music categories.
The first and most renowned history of the evolution of the unique American musical phenomenon called jazz, The Story of Jazz follows the course of jazz from the union of the black African musical heritage with European forms and its birth in New Orleans, through the era of swing and bop, to the beginnings of rock in the '50s.
Dc Jazz
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Author : Maurice Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Release Date : 2018
Dc Jazz written by Maurice Jackson and has been published by Georgetown University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Jazz categories.
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Poems -- Introduction -- 1 Jazz, "Great Black Music," and the Struggle for Racial and Social Equality in Washington, DC -- 2 Seventh Street: Black DC's Musical Mecca -- 3 Washington's Duke Ellington -- 4 Bill Brower: Notes from a Keen Observer and Scene Maker -- 5 Jazz Radio in Washington, DC -- 6 Legislating Jazz -- 7 The Beautiful Struggle: A Look at Women Who Have Helped Shape the DC Jazz Scene -- 8 No Church without a Choir: Howard University and Jazz in Washington, DC -- 9 From Federal City College to UDC: A Retrospective on Washington's Jazz University -- 10 Researching Jazz History in Washington, DC -- List of Contributors -- Photo Credits and Permissions -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z