1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454175503321

Autore

Stein Crease Stephanie

Titolo

Gil Evans [[electronic resource] ] : His Life and Music

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : Chicago Review Press, 2003

ISBN

1-55652-985-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (418 p.)

Disciplina

781.65092

Soggetti

Evans, Gil, 1912-1988 -- Biography

Evans, Gil, 1912-1988

Jazz musicians -- Canada -- Biography

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Table of Contents; Stockton; Prince of Swing; Hollywood; Thornhill-His Band and His Sound; Wartime; 52nd Street Annex; Moon Dreams; Jambangle; Out of the Cool; Svengali; Sweet Basil; Epilogue (Parabola); Notes; Bibliography; Selected Discography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The life (1912?1988) and career of Gil Evans paralleled and often foreshadowed the quickly changing world of jazz through the 20th century. Gil Evans: Out of the Cool is the comprehensive biography of a self-taught musician whom colleagues often regarded as a mentor. His innovative work as a composer, arranger, and bandleader?for Miles Davis, with whom he frequently collaborated over the course of four decades, and for his own ensembles?places him alongside Duke Ellington and Aaron Copland as one of the giants of American music. His unflagging creativity galvanized the most promine



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452638803321

Autore

Ballard Michael B

Titolo

Grant at Vicksburg [[electronic resource] ] : the general and the siege / / Michael B. Ballard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, c2013

ISBN

1-299-44076-2

0-8093-3241-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Disciplina

973.7/344

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Vicksburg (Miss.) History Siege, 1863

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Long road to Vicksburg -- A regular siege and paranoia -- River of lies -- Rampant racism -- Congressman and coterie -- Closely hemmed in -- Big black, black powder, brush fires -- Surrender, clutter, impact.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910827378603321

Autore

Torbakov I. B.

Titolo

After empire : nationalist imagination and symbolic politics in Russia and Eurasia in the twentieth and twenty-first century / / Igor Torbakov ; with a foreword by Serhii Plokhy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stuttgart, Germany : , : Ibidem-Verlag, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

3-8382-7217-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (363 pages)

Collana

Soviet and post-soviet politics and society (SPPS) ; ; Volume 191

Disciplina

940.5

Soggetti

Eurasians - Russia (Federation)

Russia (Federation) Politics and government 20th century

Russia (Federation) Politics and government 21st century

Russia (Federation) Relations Ukraine

Ukraine Relations Russia (Federation)

Eurasia Politics and government 20th century

Eurasia Politics and government 21st century

Eurasia Relations Russia (Federation)

Russia (Federation) Relations Eurasia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.