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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783371303321

Autore

Gitler Ira

Titolo

Swing to bop [[electronic resource] ] : an oral history of the transition in jazz in the 1940s / / Ira Gitler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1985

ISBN

0-19-802070-8

1-282-38427-9

9786612384271

1-4237-3620-6

0-19-536411-2

1-60129-668-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (356 p.)

Disciplina

781.6540973

785.42/0973

Soggetti

Jazz - 1941-1950 - History and criticism

Jazz musicians - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1. The Road; 2. Roots and Seeds; 3. Minton's and Monroe's; 4. Fifty-Second Street; 5. California; 6. Big-Band Bop; 7. The Bop Era; 8. End of an Era; Epilogue; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

More than fifty major figures in jazz preserve for posterity their recollections of how jazz moved from the big band era in the late 1930's and 1940's into the modern jazz period.