Download or read book Dizzy Gillespie and the Be bop Revolution written by Raymond Horricks and published by Spellmount, Limited Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dizzy Gillespie established himself with the big bands of Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald and Earl Hines, before spearheading the bebop era in the company of Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk. One of the great trumpet virtuosi of jazz, he has played andrecorded with most of the big names in jazz over the past fifty years. His natural extrovert humour and personal warmth has endeared him to generations of fans worldwide.
Download or read book Dizzy Gillespie and the Be bop Revolution written by Raymond Horricks and published by Spellmount, Limited Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dizzy Gillespie established himself with the big bands of Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald and Earl Hines, before spearheading the bebop era in the company of Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk. One of the great trumpet virtuosi of jazz, he has played andrecorded with most of the big names in jazz over the past fifty years. His natural extrovert humour and personal warmth has endeared him to generations of fans worldwide.
Download or read book Dizzy written by Donald L. Maggin and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-03-28 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dizzy Gillespie secured his place in the jazz pantheon as one of the most expressive and virtuosic improvisers in the history of music. More important is that he was one of its great innovators. As a primary creator of the bebop and Afro-Cuban revolutions, he twice changed the way improvisation was fundamentally done. And by combining electrifying musicianship, infectious warmth, and rare comedic skills, he achieved a worldwide popularity few jazz musicians have ever enjoyed. This is the enthralling saga of Dizzy Gillespie -- a chronicle of the rise of a jazz genius from the lowest rung of the social order to the highest pinnacle of respect and ability that brings Harlem's golden after-hours era, the raucous 52nd Street scene, of the forties, the barrios of Havana and Rio, the White House, and the world's great concert halls to glorious life.
Download or read book History of Classic Jazz from its beginnings to Be Bop written by Marco Ravasini and published by Youcanprint. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of classic Jazz presented interactively, with photographs, musical excerpts and video recordings from the era available through World Wide Web access, along with links to a glossary of all specialized technical terms.
Download or read book Dizzy written by Dizzy Gillespie and published by Quartet Books (UK). This book was released on 1982 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Birth of Bebop written by Scott DeVeaux and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The richest place in America's musical landscape is that fertile ground occupied by jazz. Scott DeVeaux takes a central chapter in the history of jazz—the birth of bebop—and shows how our contemporary ideas of this uniquely American art form flow from that pivotal moment. At the same time, he provides an extraordinary view of the United States in the decades just prior to the civil rights movement. DeVeaux begins with an examination of the Swing Era, focusing particularly on the position of African American musicians. He highlights the role played by tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, a "progressive" committed to a vision in which black jazz musicians would find a place in the world commensurate with their skills. He then looks at the young musicians of the early 1940s, including Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Thelonious Monk, and links issues within the jazz world to other developments on the American scene, including the turmoil during World War II and the pervasive racism of the period. Throughout, DeVeaux places musicians within the context of their professional world, paying close attention to the challenges of making a living as well as of making good music. He shows that bebop was simultaneously an artistic movement, an ideological statement, and a commercial phenomenon. In drawing from the rich oral histories that a living tradition provides, DeVeaux's book resonates with the narratives of individual lives. While The Birth of Bebop is a study in American cultural history and a critical musical inquiry, it is also a fitting homage to bebop and to those who made it possible.
Download or read book The Bebop Revolution in Words and Music written by Dave Oliphant and published by Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. This book was released on 1994 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Birth of Bebop written by Scott Knowles DeVeaux and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scott DeVeaux takes a central chapter in the history of jazz - the birth of bebop - and shows how our contemporary ideas of this uniquely American art form flow from that pivotal moment. At the same time, he provides an extraordinary view of the United States in the decades just prior to the civil rights movement.
Download or read book Dizzy Gillespie His Life and Times written by Barry McRae and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2012-04-11 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and times of Dizzy Gillespie
Download or read book Brotherhood in Rhythm written by Constance Valis Hill and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A lovingly researched and thoughtfully created portrait of the Nicholas Brothers, Fayard and Harold, two of the most explosive dancers of the twentieth century who refined a centuries-old tradition of percussive dance into the rhythmic brilliance of jazz tap at its zenith. Interweaves an intimate portrait of these great performers with a richly detailed history of jazz music and jazz dance, bringing their act to life and explaining their significance through a colourful analysis of their eloquent footwork and full-bodied expressiveness. Captures the Brohers' soaring careers, from Cotton Club appearances with Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, and Jimmy Lunceford, to film-stealing big-screen performances with Chick Webb, Tommy Dorsey, and Glenn Miller. Drawing on endless hours of interviews with the Nicholas brothers themselves, Brotherhood in Rhythm documents their struggles against the nets of racism and segregation that constantly enmeshed their careers and denied them the recognition they deserved."--
Download or read book The Swing Book written by Degen Pener and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-06-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years ago a revival of swing took place, originating in San Francisco, snowballing into today's international resurgence. This book presents the complete history of swing music and dancing, then and now.
Download or read book Dizzy Gillespie written by Philippe Peseux and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Si Dizzy Gillespie partage avec Chartie Parker le rôle d'initiateur de la révolution bebop dans les années quarante, on peut le considérer comme le principal vulgarisateur des audaces de ce nouvel idiome. Spectaculaire virtuose de la trompette, il joignait à ses qualités d'instrumentiste une aptitude exceptionnelle à diriger, le tout mâtiné en permanence d'un humour et d'une fantaisie dont l'impact a largement contribué à populariser ses idées nouvelles. On jugera de ses qualités de meneur d'hommes dans le CD1, qui le présente à la tête de son big band décoiffant, alors que le CD2 privilégie l'ébouriffant soliste au sein de petits ensembles.
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Popular Music written by Colin Larkin and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 4183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on popular music, from the early 20th century to the present day.
Download or read book To Be or not to Bop written by Dizzy Gillespie and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harlem of the West written by Elizabeth Pepin and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlem of the West reveals a forgotten slice of San Francisco history and the African-American experience on the West Coast: the thriving jazz scene of the Fillmore in the 1940s and 1950s. With archival photographs and oral accounts from the residents and musicians who experienced it, this vividly illustrated tour will delight jazz fans and history aficionados.
Download or read book Groovin High written by Alyn Shipton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-19 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dizzy Gillespie was one of the most important and best-loved musicians in jazz history. With his horn-rimmed glasses, goatee, jive talk, and upraised trumpet bell, he was the hipster who most personified bebop. The musical heir to Louis Armstrong, he created the modern jazz trumpet-playing style and dazzled aficionados and popular audiences alike for over 50 years. In this first full biography, Alyn Shipton covers all aspects of Dizzy's remarkable life and career, taking us through his days as a flashy trumpet player in the swing bands of the 1930s, his innovative bebop work in the 1940s, the worldwide fame and adoration he earned through his big band tours in the 1950s, and the many recordings and performances which defined a career that extended into the early 1990s. Along the way, Shipton convincingly argues that Gillespie--rather than Charlie Parker as is widely believed--had the greatest role in creating bebop, playing in key jazz groups, teaching the music to others, and helping to develop the first original bebop repertory. Shipton also explores the dark side of Dizzy's mostly sunny personal life, his womanizing, the illegitimate daughter he fathered and supported--now a respected jazz singer in her own right--and his sometimes needless cruelty to others. For anyone interested in jazz and one of its most innovative and appealing figures, Groovin' High is essential reading.
Download or read book Black World Negro Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1969-02 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1943, Negro Digest (later “Black World”) was the publication that launched Johnson Publishing. During the most turbulent years of the civil rights movement, Negro Digest/Black World served as a critical vehicle for political thought for supporters of the movement.
