Download or read book Buddy Bolden s blues written by Michael Ondaatje and published by S̃ao Paulo [Brazil] : Companhia Das Letras. This book was released on 2001 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neste romance sensual e terno, o autor de Bandeiras pálidas e O paciente inglês recria a carreira meteórica de Buddy Bolden (1876?-1931), músico que revolucionou a maneira de tocar o cornetim, instrumento depois substituído no jazz pelo trompete.NA passagem para o século XX, tocando nos prostíbulos de Nova Orleans, nos desfiles de bandas pelas ruas da cidade, Buddy Bolden alucinava. BArbeiro e editor de um jornaleco de escândalos durante o dia, músico à noite, tornou-se famoso e enlouqueceu aos 31 anos de idade, sendo confinado a um hospício pelo resto de sua existência. É Uma das personalidades mais obscuras e fascinantes da história do jazz. DEle restou apenas uma fotografia desfocada e um punhado de lembranças de amigos e conhecidos. SUa música jamais foi gravada.NEste livro que se apresenta como romance e não como biografia, o pouco que se sabe sobre Buddy Bolden é elaborado por Ondaatje tal como um jazzman desenvolve um tema musical: como material para variações. DAí, por exemplo, a possibilidade de acompanharmos de perto os complexos relacionamentos de Buddy com os amigos e as mulheres. A Evocação de Nova Orleans, com seus músicos e cafetões, fotógrafos e prostitutas, é magistral, graças também ao talento de Ondaatje para refazer a vida por meio da palavra literária.
Download or read book In Search of Buddy Bolden written by Donald M. Marquis and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beginnings of jazz and the story of Charles “Buddy” Bolden (1877–1931) are inextricably intertwined. Just after the turn of the century, New Orleanians could often hear Bolden’s powerful horn from the city’s parks and through dance hall windows. Despite his lack of formal training, his unique style—both musical and personal—made him the first “king” of New Orleans jazz and the inspiration for such later jazz greats as King Oliver, Kid Ory, and Louis Armstrong. For years the legend of Buddy Bolden was overshadowed by myths about his music, his reckless lifestyle, and his mental instability. In Search of Buddy Bolden overlays the myths with the substance of reality. Interviews with those who knew Bolden and an extensive array of primary sources enliven and inform Donald M. Marquis’s absorbing portrait of the brief but brilliant career of the first man of jazz. This paperback edition includes a new preface and appendix relating events and discoveries that have occurred since the book’s original publication in 1978.
Download or read book Let that Bad Air Out written by Stefan Berg and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2007 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stefan Berg revives the wordless graphic novel in his portrait of the `first man of jazz'. Very little is known of Buddy Bolden. His music was never recorded and there is only one existing photograph, yet he is considered to be the first bandleader to play the improvised music that has since become known as jazz.
Download or read book Coming Through Slaughter written by Michael Ondaatje and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing to life the fabulous, colorful panorama of New Orleans in the first flush of the jazz era, this book tells the story of Buddy Bolden, the first of the great trumpet players--some say the originator of jazz--who was, in any case, the genius, the guiding spirit, and the king of that time and place. In this fictionalized meditation, Bolden, an unrecorded father of Jazz, remains throughout a tantalizingly ungraspable phantom, the central mysteries of his life, his art, and his madness remaining felt but never quite pinned down. Ondaatje's prose is at times startlingly lyrical, and as he chases Bolden through documents and scenes, the novel partakes of the very best sort of modern detective novel--one where the enigma is never resolved, but allowed to manifest in its fullness. Though more 'experimental' in form than either The English Patient or In the Skin of a Lion, it is a fitting addition to the renowned Ondaatje oeuvre.
Download or read book Buddy Boldens Blues written by Michael Ondaatje and published by München : Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag. This book was released on 1997 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aus den Bruchstücken eines Lebens konstruiert Michael Ondaatje ein poetisches Porträt, mischt Photos, Interviews, Protokolle von Tonbandaufnahmen mit fiktiven Monologen und Gesprächen. Es entsteht der faszinierende Roman einer bewegten Epoche und eines Mannes, der auf der Suche nach sich selbst seinen Verstand verlor und von dem als Zeugnis nur ein Photo blieb - und der Mythos. Buddy Bolden war der beste, lauteste und meistgeliebte Jazzmusiker seiner Zeit.
Download or read book Buddy Bolden and the Last Days of Storyville written by Danny Barker and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of Barker's memoirs, A Life in Jazz, followed him from New Orleans into the big bands of Cab Calloway and Benny Carter. He was working on this-the second volume-for some years before his death in 1994. Beginning with an extended portrait of Buddy Bolden as recalled by the likes of Jelly Roll Morton and Bunk Johnson as well as Barker himself, this book draws together a lifetime of stories and the vivid characters who populated "Storyville."Danny Barker (1909-1994) sang and played the guitar and banjo on over 1,000 jazz, swing, blues, and bebop records. He is a member of the Jazz Hall of Fame and recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Music Master Award. Alyn Shipton is a writer and broadcaster on jazz. He is the editor of A Life in Jazz, the first volume of Danny Barker's memoirs.
Download or read book Buddy Boldens Blues written by Michael Ondaatje and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Buddy Boldens Storyville Blues written by Peter Nissen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Omkring ar 1900 blev de sorte i USA's Sydstater berovet de rettigheder, som de fik efter borgerkrigen, og New Orleans var som en krudttonde. Den unge smukke Kreolerpige Nora Bass, der levede sammen med den karismatiske jazz pioner Buddy Bolden, fortaeller abenhjertigt om sin barndom og problemer i parforholdet. Buddy har elskerinder omkring i byen, og Nora elsker at danse nogen pa bordellerne i Storyville. En julidag i 1900 gor den sorte mand Robert Charles opror mod politiets magtmisbrug, og krudttonden eksploderer. I de folgende dage forsoger en hvid pobel at fange alle de sorte mennesker de kan finde, og en massakre er en reel trussel. Sa Nora tager en skaebnesvanger beslutning, der bringer hendes eget liv i far
Download or read book Creating Jazz Counterpoint written by Vic Hobson and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book Jazzmen (1939) claimed New Orleans as the birthplace of jazz and introduced the legend of Buddy Bolden as the "First Man of Jazz." Much of the information that the book relied on came from a highly controversial source: Bunk Johnson. He claimed to have played with Bolden and that together they had pioneered jazz. Johnson made many recordings talking about and playing the music of the Bolden era. These recordings have been treated with skepticism because of doubts about Johnson's credibility. Using oral histories, the Jazzmen interview notes, and unpublished archive material, this book confirms that Bunk Johnson did play with Bolden. This confirmation, in turn, has profound implications for Johnson's recorded legacy in describing the music of the early years of New Orleans jazz. New Orleans jazz was different from ragtime in a number of ways. It was a music that was collectively improvised, and it carried a new tonality--the tonality of the blues. How early jazz musicians improvised together and how the blues became a part of jazz has until now been a mystery. Part of the reason New Orleans jazz developed as it did is that all the prominent jazz pioneers, including Buddy Bolden, Bunk Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Johnny Dodds, and Kid Ory, sang in barbershop (or barroom) quartets. This book describes in both historical and musical terms how the practices of quartet singing were converted to the instruments of a jazz band, and how this, in turn, produced collectively improvised, blues-inflected jazz, that unique sound of New Orleans.
Download or read book Buddy Bolden and the Last Days of Storyville written by Danny Barker and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of Barker's memoirs, A Life in Jazz, followed him from New Orleans into the big bands of Cab Calloway and Benny Carter. He was working on this-the second volume-for some years before his death in 1994. Beginning with an extended portrait of Buddy Bolden as recalled by the likes of Jelly Roll Morton and Bunk Johnson as well as Barker himself, this book draws together a lifetime of stories and the vivid characters who populated "Storyville."Danny Barker (1909-1994) sang and played the guitar and banjo on over 1,000 jazz, swing, blues, and bebop records. He is a member of the Jazz Hall of Fame and recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Music Master Award. Alyn Shipton is a writer and broadcaster on jazz. He is the editor of A Life in Jazz, the first volume of Danny Barker's memoirs.
Download or read book Buddy Boldens Blues written by Michael Ondaatje and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Buddy Boldens Blues written by Michael Ondaatje and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Blues A Very Short Introduction written by Elijah Wald and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praised as "suave, soulful, ebullient" (Tom Waits) and "a meticulous researcher, a graceful writer, and a committed contrarian" (New York Times Book Review), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular music critics of his generation. In The Blues, Wald surveys a genre at the heart of American culture. It is not an easy thing to pin down. As Howlin' Wolf once described it, "When you ain't got no money and can't pay your house rent and can't buy you no food, you've damn sure got the blues." It has been defined by lyrical structure, or as a progression of chords, or as a set of practices reflecting West African "tonal and rhythmic approaches," using a five-note "blues scale." Wald sees blues less as a style than as a broad musical tradition within a constantly evolving pop culture. He traces its roots in work and praise songs, and shows how it was transformed by such professional performers as W. C. Handy, who first popularized the blues a century ago. He follows its evolution from Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith through Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix; identifies the impact of rural field recordings of Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charley Patton and others; explores the role of blues in the development of both country music and jazz; and looks at the popular rhythm and blues trends of the 1940s and 1950s, from the uptown West Coast style of T-Bone Walker to the "down home" Chicago sound of Muddy Waters. Wald brings the story up to the present, touching on the effects of blues on American poetry, and its connection to modern styles such as rap. As with all of Oxford's Very Short Introductions, The Blues tells you--with insight, clarity, and wit--everything you need to know to understand this quintessentially American musical genre.
Download or read book Jazz for Young People Curriculum written by Wynton Marsalis and published by Alfred Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jelly s Last Jam written by George C. Wolfe and published by Theatre Communications Grou. This book was released on 1993 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatizes the life of Jelly Roll Morton, pianist, composer, and self-proclaimed inventor of jazz.
Download or read book Exploring Early Jazz written by Daniel Hardie and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-05-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of the first Thirty Years of Jazz during which the basic jazz of Buddy Bolden developed into Classic Jazz and passed into history. It covers the first twenty years before recordings appeared and uncovers the Saga of the first Jazz Bands. - their struggle to adapt to the demands of their audiences and the impetus they gave to the Roaring Twenties when the Original Dixieland Jazz Band made the first jazz recordings in 1927 - and the age of hot Classic Jazz, of King Oliver and the transition to Swing.
Download or read book Hear Me Talkin to Ya written by Nat Shapiro and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this marvelous oral history, the words of such legends as Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, and Billy Holiday trace the birth, growth, and changes in jazz over the years.
