Download or read book A Pictorial History of Jazz written by Orrin Keepnews and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Black Beauty White Heat written by Frank Driggs and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1996-03-21 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint (with the omission of the color insert) of a work published in New York in 1982. Photos of musicians, record labels, and promotional flyers and posters are accompanied by lively and affectionate explanatory text. An exuberant reference, dense with both visual and textual information. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Download or read book Keystone Korner written by Sascha Feinstein and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supplemental CD-ROM contents: Includes music by Stan Getz, Art Blakey, Bill Evans, Dexter Gordon, Woody Shaw and others.

Download or read book Kansas City Jazz written by Frank Driggs and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There were but four major galaxies in the early jazz universe, and three of them--New Orleans, Chicago, and New York--have been well documented in print. But there has never been a serious history of the fourth, Kansas City, until now. In this colorful history, Frank Driggs and Chuck Haddix range from ragtime to bebop and from Bennie Moten to Charlie Parker to capture the golden age of Kansas City jazz. Readers will find a colorful portrait of old Kaycee itself, back then a neon riot of bars, gambling dens and taxi dance halls, all ruled over by Boss Tom Pendergast, who had transformed a dusty cowtown into the Paris of the Plains. We see how this wide-open, gin-soaked town gave birth to a music that was more basic and more viscerally exciting than other styles of jazz, its singers belting out a rough-and-tumble urban style of blues, its piano players pounding out a style later known as "boogie-woogie." We visit the great landmarks, like the Reno Club, the "Biggest Little Club in the World," where Lester Young and Count Basie made jazz history, and Charlie Parker began his musical education in the alley out back. And of course the authors illuminate the lives of the great musicians who made Kansas City swing, with colorful profiles of jazz figures such as Mary Lou Williams, Big Joe Turner, Jimmy Rushing, and Andy Kirk and his "Clouds of Joy." Here is the definitive account of the raw, hard-driving style that put Kansas City on the musical map. It is a must read for everyone who loves jazz or American music history.

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Download or read book The History of Jazz written by Ted Gioia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panoramic history of the genre brings to life the diverse places in which jazz evolved, traces the origins of its various styles, and offers commentary on the music itself.