A Jazz Odyssey

Author : Oscar PETERSON
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:772775103

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A Jazz Odyssey by Oscar PETERSON Pdf

Author : Oscar PETERSON
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:772775103

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A Jazz Odyssey by Oscar PETERSON Pdf

Author : Oscar Peterson,Richard F. Palmer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Continuum
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111778879

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A Jazz Odyssey by Oscar Peterson,Richard F. Palmer Pdf

Oscar Peterson's career as a jazz pianist has spanned over five decades. During that time, he has recorded nearly 90 albums, won seven Grammys, and earned lifetime achievement awards from the Black Theatre Workshop, the Peabody Conservatory of Music, and the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences. He has played with, and come to know, many of the genre's greatest contributors, including Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington. Peterson chronicles his storied career in A Jazz Odyssey: The Life of Oscar Peterson.Organized chronologically, A Jazz Odyssey takes readers through the development of jazz over the course of the late 20th century as seen by one of the jazz world's most celebrated figures. Peterson guides readers through the turbulent 1940s, when he was playing with the Johnny Holmes Orchestra in Montreal, and first met Norman Granz - the jazz producer who would launch his career. With Granz, he joined Jazz at the Philharmonic, playing at Carnegie Hall and touring all over North America. A Jazz Odyssey also brings readers to the birth of the Oscar Peterson Trio - where Peterson would hone his trademark arrangement of piano, guitar, and bass and work with the likes of Ray Brown, Barney Kessel, and Herb Ellis. Peterson describes the endless practice sessions and tireless work ethic that earned the group the reputation of the hardest working trio in the business. He also describes meeting his idol Art Tatum during the 1950s and touring with him in Jazz at the Philharmonic.A Jazz Odyssey explores the process behind cutting the dozens of albums that the Oscar Peterson Trio cut during the 1950s. The trio's incarnation atthat time included Peterson, himself, in addition to Herb Ellis and Ray Brown - a group that would become known as one of the gre

Author : James Wilson Newberne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:176250676

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My Jazz Odyssey by James Wilson Newberne Pdf

Reminiscences of the author's musical experiences in college and professional jazz bands, including the Auburn Plainsmen Orchestra and the Auburn Knights Orchestra. Includes information about others with whom he played and their careers ourside of music, as well as autobiographical material about his military experience, work as a vetrinarian, etc.

Author : Joe Darensbourg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Jazz musicians
ISBN : OCLC:1035904005

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Jazz Odyssey by Joe Darensbourg Pdf

Author : Robert G. O'Meally,D.C. Moore Gallery
Publisher : DC Moore Gallery, New York
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015073939806

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Romare Bearden by Robert G. O'Meally,D.C. Moore Gallery Pdf

Foreword by Bridget Moore. Text by Robert G. O'Meally.

Author : Dempsey Jerome Travis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015048831666

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The Louis Armstrong Odyssey by Dempsey Jerome Travis Pdf

Explores the life and career of the renowned trumpeter and bandleader of the jazz era.

Author : Barry Martyn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015064205431

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Walking with Legends by Barry Martyn Pdf

"Barry Martyn has been an exemplar of New Orleans jazz for over 40 years. What makes this drummer and band leader unique is that he was born in England and was the first white musician in America to join a black musician's union. Having performed and toured with some of the best New Orleans musicians, Martyn mentions in this memoir of a jazz life players who are far from household names-the book's greatest asset. Even among jazz aficionados, many of these players have gone unheralded, as New Orleans jazz is almost a world unto itself. Jazz musician and author Burns (Keeping the Beat on the Street: The New Orleans Brass Band Renaissance) tape-recorded over 40 hours of Martyn's stories and recollections. However, owing either to Burns's editing or to the difficult conversion of conversation into print, Martyn's stories are recounted in a very clipped style, and the project might have fared better as a film in which his tales could be heard."--Library Journal.

Author : Ted Gioia
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997-11-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199840298

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The History of Jazz by Ted Gioia Pdf

Jazz is the most colorful and varied art form in the world and it was born in one of the most colorful and varied cities, New Orleans. From the seed first planted by slave dances held in Congo Square and nurtured by early ensembles led by Buddy Belden and Joe "King" Oliver, jazz began its long winding odyssey across America and around the world, giving flower to a thousand different forms--swing, bebop, cool jazz, jazz-rock fusion--and a thousand great musicians. Now, in The History of Jazz, Ted Gioia tells the story of this music as it has never been told before, in a book that brilliantly portrays the legendary jazz players, the breakthrough styles, and the world in which it evolved. Here are the giants of jazz and the great moments of jazz history--Jelly Roll Morton ("the world's greatest hot tune writer"), Louis Armstrong (whose O-keh recordings of the mid-1920s still stand as the most significant body of work that jazz has produced), Duke Ellington at the Cotton Club, cool jazz greats such as Gerry Mulligan, Stan Getz, and Lester Young, Charlie Parker's surgical precision of attack, Miles Davis's 1955 performance at the Newport Jazz Festival, Ornette Coleman's experiments with atonality, Pat Metheny's visionary extension of jazz-rock fusion, the contemporary sounds of Wynton Marsalis, and the post-modernists of the Knitting Factory. Gioia provides the reader with lively portraits of these and many other great musicians, intertwined with vibrant commentary on the music they created. Gioia also evokes the many worlds of jazz, taking the reader to the swamp lands of the Mississippi Delta, the bawdy houses of New Orleans, the rent parties of Harlem, the speakeasies of Chicago during the Jazz Age, the after hours spots of corrupt Kansas city, the Cotton Club, the Savoy, and the other locales where the history of jazz was made. And as he traces the spread of this protean form, Gioia provides much insight into the social context in which the music was born. He shows for instance how the development of technology helped promote the growth of jazz--how ragtime blossomed hand-in-hand with the spread of parlor and player pianos, and how jazz rode the growing popularity of the record industry in the 1920s. We also discover how bebop grew out of the racial unrest of the 1940s and '50s, when black players, no longer content with being "entertainers," wanted to be recognized as practitioners of a serious musical form. Jazz is a chameleon art, delighting us with the ease and rapidity with which it changes colors. Now, in Ted Gioia's The History of Jazz, we have at last a book that captures all these colors on one glorious palate. Knowledgeable, vibrant, and comprehensive, it is among the small group of books that can truly be called classics of jazz literature.

Author : Walter Dean Myers
Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781430130208

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Jazz by Walter Dean Myers Pdf

"Exuberant music, powerful narration, and image-filled poetry combine to create this extraordinary recording, winner of ALA's first Odyssey Award for excellence in audiobook production." The Horn Book

Author : Paul Balmer
Publisher : Bobcat Books
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780857123701

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Stephane Grappelli: A Life in Jazz by Paul Balmer Pdf

This riveting book by Paul Balmer is the definitive biography of a unique musician whose life spanned the 20th century. Stephane Grappelli's astonishing career ran on a parallel track to the history of Jazz itself. Born in Paris in 1908 Grappelli was to become a member of the greatest European Jazz band of them all - the pre-war Hot Club de France Quintet - playing Violin alongside gypsy Guitar legend Django Reinhardt. Tat dazzling association with Reinhardt may have brought Grappelli his greatest fame, but his prodigious talent was also to give him a long and varied career in music playing with everyone from Duke Ellington and Joe Venuti to George Shearing and Oscar Peterson. This rich and revealing biography takes its place alongside the author's BAFTA-nominated DVD about Grappelli, an exceptional musician whose fascinating personal story also vividly illuminates the history of American Jazz in Europe.

Author : David Baker
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781457426148

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Jazz Pedagogy, for Teachers and Students by David Baker Pdf

This volume was the first published jazz teaching method. One of America's greatest musician-teachers, David Baker, shows how to develop jazz courses and jazz ensembles, with lesson plans, rehearsal techniques, practice suggestions, improvisational ideas, and ideas for school and private teachers and students.

Author : Charles Suhor
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781461660026

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Jazz in New Orleans by Charles Suhor Pdf

Jazz in New Orleans provides accurate information about, and an insightful interpretation of, jazz in New Orleans from the end of World War II through 1970.

Author : Judith Tick
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393242027

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Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song by Judith Tick Pdf

An NPR 2023 "Books We Love" Pick • A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of 2023 A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator. Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996) possessed one of the twentieth century’s most astonishing voices. In this first major biography since Fitzgerald’s death, historian Judith Tick offers a sublime portrait of this ambitious risk-taker whose exceptional musical spontaneity made her a transformational artist. Becoming Ella Fitzgerald clears up long-enduring mysteries. Archival research and in-depth family interviews shed new light on the singer’s difficult childhood in Yonkers, New York, the tragic death of her mother, and the year she spent in a girls’ reformatory school—where she sang in its renowned choir and dreamed of being a dancer. Rarely seen profiles from the Black press offer precious glimpses of Fitzgerald’s tense experiences of racial discrimination and her struggles with constricting models of Black and white femininity at midcentury. Tick’s compelling narrative depicts Fitzgerald’s complicated career in fresh and original detail, upending the traditional view that segregates vocal jazz from the genre’s mainstream. As she navigated the shifting tides between jazz and pop, she used her originality to pioneer modernist vocal jazz. Interpreting long-lost setlists, reviews from both white and Black newspapers, and newly released footage and recordings, the book explores how Ella’s transcendence as an improvisor produced onstage performances every bit as significant as her historic recorded oeuvre. From the singer’s first performance at the Apollo Theatre’s famous “Amateur Night” to the Savoy Ballroom, where Fitzgerald broke through with Chick Webb’s big band in the 1930s, Tick evokes the jazz world in riveting detail. She describes how Ella helped shape the bebop movement in the 1940s, as she joined Dizzy Gillespie and her then-husband, Ray Brown, in the world-touring Jazz at the Philharmonic, one of the first moments of high-culture acceptance for the disreputable art form. Breaking ground as a female bandleader, Fitzgerald refuted expectations of musical Blackness, deftly balancing artistic ambition and market expectations. Her legendary exploration of the Great American Songbook in the 1950s fused a Black vocal aesthetic and jazz improvisation to revolutionize the popular repertoire. This hybridity often confounded critics, yet throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Ella reached audiences around the world, electrifying concert halls, and sold millions of records. A masterful biography, Becoming Ella Fitzgerald describes a powerful woman who set a standard for American excellence nearly unmatched in the twentieth century.

Author : Tad Hershorn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520267824

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Norman Granz by Tad Hershorn Pdf

“The JAZZ AT THE PHILHARMONIC concerts were a turning point in my life. My fellow Californian Norman Granz figured it out. This biography lays out, in impressive detail and insight, the incredible contribution of Mr. Granz to the world of music and art. The deed of the vast recordings of ART TATUM says it all.” —Clint Eastwood “Norman Granz was one of the most important people in the world of jazz. He did more to escalate respect for jazz and raise our salaries than anybody else. He absolutely loved jazz and jazz musicians. I’m honored to have shared a beautiful friendship with Norman for many, many years. Hopefully, with this incredible book by Tad Hershorn, the world will have a chance to learn about Norman, and his phenomenal contribution to our beloved music—jazz.”—Clark Terry, author of Clark: The Autobiography of Clark Terry “Tad Hershorn’s Norman Granz: The Man Who Used Jazz for Justice is a relentlessly readable, rigorously researched, deeply empathic portrait of the complex and heroic man who was arguably the greatest champion of this great American art form—and its great artists. Essential reading for anyone who loves jazz.” —James Kaplan, author of Frank: The Voice “Norman Granz was renowned as a vivid force in jazz history, both as a producer of invaluable classic recordings by many of the music’s most original performers and also for his world-wide, all-star Jazz at the Philharmonic tours. Moreover, he broke the color line dividing jazz audiences by mandating the end of segregated seating his continually popular concerts. Yet until this magisterial, deeply researched biography of Granz by Tad Hershorn, there has been no full-scale inside account of the achievement and combats of this often larger-than-life personality who, without playing an instrument, was so swingingly instrumental in making jazz an international language.” —Nat Hentoff, author of At the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene “Norman Granz, one of the most significant non-musicians in jazz history, took gutsy public stands but remained a private person. Tad Hershorn's years of dedicated research reveal the man behind the lasting legacy, on which he sheds new light as well.. This great American story is a must read—and not just for jazz fans!” —Dan Morgenstern, author of Living with Jazz “Norman Granz was an institution in jazz. He was loved by some, hated by others, often controversial, and always fearless. But Granz was also elusive and, until now, sometimes came across as more symbol than man. Tad Hershorn has changed all that in this stunning, beautiful biography of the music's most relentless advocate of social justice.” —Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original “Norman Granz was an important man, and Tad Hershorn tells his story with a fearless compassion grounded in yeoman research. Imperious, vain, and rude, Granz was also generous, inventive, and brave. He fought valiantly for jazz and civil rights, made pots of money, and never failed to bet it on his passions and beliefs. If you do not know him, you couldn't ask for a better introduction than Hershorn's judicious portrait; if you think you do know him, you are in for more than a few surprises.” —Gary Giddins, author of Visions of Jazz "You're probably smarter than you present yourself." —Norman Granz to author, 2001