At the jazz band ball [[electronic resource] ] : sixty years on the jazz scene / / Nat Hentoff ; foreword by Lewis Porter |
Autore | Hentoff Nat |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (267 p.) |
Disciplina | 781.6509 |
Soggetto topico |
Music - History and criticism
Jazz - History and criticism |
Soggetto non controllato |
american music
american society art biographical blues music civil liberties civil rights contrarian duke ellington engaging famous jazz musicians feel good free expression gospel health care interviews jazz band ball jazz critics jazz history jazz lovers jazz music jazz musicians jazz scene louis armstrong musicians nonfiction ornette coleman personal history political activists quincy jones retrospective short essays social justice issues |
ISBN |
1-282-55613-4
9786612556135 0-520-94588-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. What am I here for? : the rules of my jazz odyssey -- pt. 2. In the presence of Ellington -- pt. 3. Jazz credentials -- pt. 4. The jazz life on and off the road -- pt. 5. Who is a jazz singer? -- pt. 6. The life force of the music -- pt. 7. Finding the first American groove -- pt. 8. Roots -- pt. 9. The survivors -- pt. 10. The regenerators -- pt. 11. The master teachers. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792599803321 |
Hentoff Nat | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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At the jazz band ball : sixty years on the jazz scene / / Nat Hentoff ; foreword by Lewis Porter |
Autore | Hentoff Nat |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (267 p.) |
Disciplina | 781.6509 |
Soggetto topico |
Music - History and criticism
Jazz - History and criticism |
Soggetto non controllato |
american music
american society art biographical blues music civil liberties civil rights contrarian duke ellington engaging famous jazz musicians feel good free expression gospel health care interviews jazz band ball jazz critics jazz history jazz lovers jazz music jazz musicians jazz scene louis armstrong musicians nonfiction ornette coleman personal history political activists quincy jones retrospective short essays social justice issues |
ISBN |
1-282-55613-4
9786612556135 0-520-94588-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. What am I here for? : the rules of my jazz odyssey -- pt. 2. In the presence of Ellington -- pt. 3. Jazz credentials -- pt. 4. The jazz life on and off the road -- pt. 5. Who is a jazz singer? -- pt. 6. The life force of the music -- pt. 7. Finding the first American groove -- pt. 8. Roots -- pt. 9. The survivors -- pt. 10. The regenerators -- pt. 11. The master teachers. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823596903321 |
Hentoff Nat | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Jazz/Not Jazz : The Music and Its Boundaries / / David Ake, Charles Hiroshi Garrett, Daniel Ira Goldmark |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [2012] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (312 pages) |
Disciplina | 781.65 |
Soggetto topico |
Jazz - History and criticism
Jazz -- History and criticism |
Soggetto non controllato |
20th century america
20th century music african american history african american jazz afro-latin jazz american music history american music asian american jazz black music books for music lovers caribbean jazz evolution of jazz history of jazz history of music intercultural music jazz and blues jazz icons jazz literature jazz lovers jazz music jazz performers jazz studies jazz tradition latin jazz louis armstrong music and culture music history majors music studies musicians |
ISBN |
1-280-49188-4
9786613587114 0-520-95135-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Incorporation and Distinction in Jazz History and Jazz Historiography -- 2. Louis Armstrong Loves Guy Lombardo -- 3. The Humor of Jazz -- 4. Creating Boundaries in the Virtual Jazz Community -- 5. Latin Jazz, Afro- Latin Jazz, Afro- Cuban Jazz, Cubop, Ca rib be an Jazz, Jazz Latin, or Just . . . Jazz: The Politics of Locating an Intercultural Music -- 6. Jazz with Strings: Between Jazz and the Great American Songbook -- 7. "Slightly Left of Center": Atlantic Rec ords and the Problems of Genre -- 8. The Praxis of Composition- Improvisation and the Poetics of Creative Kinship -- 9. The Sound of Struggle: Black Revolutionary Nationalism and Asian American Jazz -- 10. Voices from the Jazz Wilderness: Locating Pacific Northwest Vocal Ensembles within Jazz Education -- 11. Crossing the Street: Rethinking Jazz Education -- 12. Deconstructing the Jazz Tradition: The "Subjectless Subject" of New Jazz Studies -- Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779284203321 |
Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [2012] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Norman Granz [[electronic resource] ] : the man who used jazz for justice / / Tad Hershorn ; foreword by Oscar Peterson |
Autore | Hershorn Tad |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (502 p.) |
Disciplina |
781.65092
B |
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 |
ISBN |
1-283-29183-5
9786613291837 0-520-94977-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781753803321 |
Hershorn Tad | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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