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Norman Granz [[electronic resource] ] : the man who used jazz for justice / / Tad Hershorn ; foreword by Oscar Peterson



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Autore: Hershorn Tad Visualizza persona
Titolo: Norman Granz [[electronic resource] ] : the man who used jazz for justice / / Tad Hershorn ; foreword by Oscar Peterson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (502 p.)
Disciplina: 781.65092
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Soggetto topico: Impresarios - United States
Jazz - History and criticism
Soggetto non controllato: 20th century jazz
african american jazz
african american performers
billie holiday
ella fitzgerald
entertainment industry
history of jazz
history of music
influential african americans
inspiring musicians
jazz and blues
jazz at the philharmonic
jazz biography
jazz icons
jazz lovers
jazz stars
music and theater
music lovers
musician biography
musician books
oscar peterson
overcoming prejudice
post war jazz
post wwii
racial prejudice
social activist
social prejudice
verve records
world of jazz
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Prologue: "I Made Things Work" -- 1. "A ll I Wanted Was My Freedom" -- 2. "A Marvelous Crucible" -- 3. Cole Train -- 4. "The Opener" -- 5. Let Freedom Swing -- 6. Norman Granz versus . . . -- 7. Mambo Jambo -- 8. Enter Ella and Oscar -- 9. The Continental -- 10. "I Feel Most at Home in the Studio" -- 11. Starry Nights -- 12. "T hat Tall Old Man Standing Next to Ella Fitzgerald" -- 13. The Jazz Hurricane -- 14. "T he Lost Generation" -- 15. Duke, Prez, and Billie -- 16. Joie de Verve -- 17. Across the Sea -- 18. "Musicians Don't Want to Jam" -- 19. Picasso on the Beach -- 20. "One More Once" -- 21. Takin' It on Out - for Good -- 22. "Somewhere There's Music" -- Epilogue: "My Career, Such As It Is . . ." -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: "Any book on my life would start with my basic philosophy of fighting racial prejudice. I loved jazz, and jazz was my way of doing that," Norman Granz told Tad Hershorn during the final interviews given for this book. Granz, who died in 2001, was iconoclastic, independent, immensely influential, often thoroughly unpleasant-and one of jazz's true giants. Granz played an essential part in bringing jazz to audiences around the world, defying racial and social prejudice as he did so, and demanding that African-American performers be treated equally everywhere they toured. In this definitive biography, Hershorn recounts Granz's story: creator of the legendary jam session concerts known as Jazz at the Philharmonic; founder of the Verve record label; pioneer of live recordings and worldwide jazz concert tours; manager and recording producer for numerous stars, including Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson.
Titolo autorizzato: Norman Granz  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-29183-5
9786613291837
0-520-94977-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910781753803321
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