ISBN: 9780195071405

Used - Like New.Here is the book jazz lovers have eagerly awaited, the second volume of Gunther Schuller's monumental The History of Jazz. When the first volume, Early Jazz, appeared two … More...

Used - Like New.Here is the book jazz lovers have eagerly awaited, the second volume of Gunther Schuller's monumental The History of Jazz. When the first volume, Early Jazz, appeared two decades ago, it immediately established itself as one of the seminal works on American music. Nat Hentoff called it "a remarkable breakthrough in musical analysis of jazz," and Frank Conroy, in The New York Times Book Review, praised it as "definitive.... A remarkable book by any standard...unparalleled in the literature of jazz." It has been universally recognized as the basic musical analysis of jazz from its beginnings until 1933.The Swing Era focuses on that extraordinary period in American musical history--1933 to 1945--when jazz was synonymous with America's popular music, its social dances and musical entertainment. The book's thorough scholarship, critical perceptions, and great love and respect for jazz puts this well-remembered era of American music into new and revealing perspective. It examines how the arrangements of Fletcher Henderson and Eddie Sauter--whom Schuller equates with Richard Strauss as "a master of harmonic modulation"--contributed to Benny Goodman's finest work...how Duke Ellingtonp used the highly individualistic trombone trio of Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton, Juan Tizol, and Lawrence Brown to enrich his elegant compositions...how Billie Holiday developed her horn-like instrumental approach to singing...and how the seminal compositions and arrangements of the long-forgotten John Nesbitt helped shape Swing Era styles through their influence on Gene Gifford and the famous Casa LomaOrchestra. Schuller also provides serious reappraisals of such often neglected jazz figures as Cab Calloway, Henry "Red" Allen, Horace Henderson, Pee Wee Russell, and Joe Mooney.Much of the book's focus is on the famous swing bands of the time, which were the essence of the Swing Era. There are the great black bands--Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Earl Hines, Andy Kirk, and the often superb but little known "territory bands"--and popular white bands like Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsie, Artie Shaw, and Woody Herman, plus the first serious critical assessment of that most famous of Swing Era bandleaders, Glenn Miller. There are incisive portraits of the great musical soloists--such as Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Bunny Berigan, and Jack Teagarden--and such singers as Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, and Helen Forest., Oxford University Press, 5<

1992, ISBN: 0195071409

[EAN: 9780195071405], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 4.09], [PU: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, Oxford], GUNTHER SCHULLER THE SWING ERA DEVELOPMENT OF JAZZ 1930 1945 VOLUME II H… More...

[EAN: 9780195071405], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 4.09], [PU: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, Oxford], GUNTHER SCHULLER THE SWING ERA DEVELOPMENT OF JAZZ 1930 1945 VOLUME II HISTORY, Taking up where Early Jazz (OPB, #6.95) leaves off, this second volume of Gunther Schuller's history of jazz considers the swing era - the age of dance bands and radio shows. Tracing the origins of swing and its effects on American musical and social life, he assesses the distinctive sounds of great bandleaders like Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Woody Herman, instrumentalists such as Art Tatum, Cab Calloway, and Pee Wee Russell, and such vocalists as Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, and Peggy Lee. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine., Books<

1991, ISBN: 9780195071405

[PU: Oxford University Press], 938 S. Taschenbuch, Maße: 23.57 cm x 15.75 cm x 4.42 cm Gepflegter, sauberer Zustand. Aus der Auflösung einer renommierten Bibliothek. Kann Stempel beinhal… More...

[PU: Oxford University Press], 938 S. Taschenbuch, Maße: 23.57 cm x 15.75 cm x 4.42 cm Gepflegter, sauberer Zustand. Aus der Auflösung einer renommierten Bibliothek. Kann Stempel beinhalten. 1512780/202, DE, [SC: 3.00], gebraucht; sehr gut, gewerbliches Angebot, Reprint, Banküberweisung, Kreditkarte, PayPal, Internationaler Versand<