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Author : Billy Taylor,Teresa L. Reed
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253009098
Billy Taylor is not only the life story of a jazz musician and spokesman but a commentary on racism and jazz as a social force.
Author : Billy Taylor,Teresa L. Reed
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253009173
The autobiography of the celebrated American jazz pianist, composer, activist, educator, and Emmy Award–winning broadcaster. Legendary jazz ambassador Dr. Billy Taylor’s autobiography spans more than six decades, from the heyday of jazz on 52nd Street in 1940s New York City to CBS Sunday Morning. Taylor fought not only for the recognition of jazz music as “America’s classical music” but also for the recognition of black musicians as key contributors to the American music repertoire. Peppered with anecdotes recalling encounters with other jazz legends such as Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, and many others, The Jazz Life of Dr. Billy Taylor is not only the life story of a jazz musician and spokesman but also a commentary on racism and jazz as a social force. “This book (including Dr. Teresa L. Reed’s eloquent introduction) captures with great clarity and accuracy the character of this man. Taylor not only always aspired to excellence, he was also humble and generous of word and deed. The Jazz Life of Dr. Billy Taylor provides the backstory of why he must be remembered as one of the major leading lights of America’s classical music.” —New York City Jazz Record “In this excellent collaboration with author Teresa Reed, Dr. Billy Taylor, one of the most beloved and iconic figures in the jazz world, tells his extraordinary life story in his own words with characteristic humility, warmth, and eloquence. This is a book of major importance not only to the jazz field but also to the study of the African American social and cultural experience in the 20th and early 21st centuries. It is a must read—I couldn’t put it down!” —Dr. David N. Baker, Chair, Jazz Studies, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music; National Endowment for the Arts American Jazz Master “An impeccable memoir by one of America’s most celebrated renaissance men. . . . The writing is as fluid as it is gorgeous, captivating and inspiring. This monumental memoir offers an in-depth and critical analysis of American history through the lens of one the most decorated African American creative artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. . . . From amazing details of interactions with Malcolm X, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., John Coltrane and Mary Lou Williams to the behind-the-scenes inspirations for compositions such as “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free,” “Don’t Go Down South” and “Peaceful Warrior”; this is a must read by anyone who claims to be remotely interested in American music, history, arts and culture.” —Emmett G. Price III, Ph.D, Executive Editor of Encyclopedia of African American Music
Author : Lee William,William F. Lee
Publisher : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : Jazz musicians
ISBN : 0634080423
Taylor Made is the extensive biography of living jazz legend, Dr. Billy Taylor. Equally university professor, band leader, playing manager, jazz ambassador to the world, and professional pianist, Dr. Billy Taylor is a walking history of jazz. Taylor's compositions, which combined together jazz and classical into a new, bright, and complex form, made a lasting impression among today's jazz composers. William F. Lee III is a university administrator, educator, composer, pianist, conductor, researcher, and teacher, with a career spanning more than thirty-five years. As a professional composer-arranger, Lee has won more than twenty ASCAP awards for the quality and frequency of performances of his serious compositions. His more than 100 publications include biographies of Stan Kenton and Maynard Ferguson. Dr. Lee resides in San Antonio, Texas.
Author : William F. Lee
Publisher : Beckham Publications Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0931761948
Having performed worldwide for millions of jazz lovers, Billy Taylor--America's ambassador for jazz--comes to life in the pages of Lee's remarkably revealing biography based on interviews.
Author : Gregg Akkerman
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810882812
In The Last Balladeer, author Gregg Akkerman skillfully reveals the life-long achievements and occasional missteps of Johnny Hartman as an African-American artist dedicated to his craft. In the first full-length biography and discography to chronicle the rhapsodic life and music of Johnny Hartman, the author completes a previously missing dimension of vocal-jazz history by documenting Hartman as the balladeer who crooned his way into so many hearts. Backed by impeccable research but conveyed in a conversational style, this book will interest not only musicians and scholars but any fan of the Great American Songbook and the singers who brought it to life.
Author : Deanna Witkowski
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780814664018
In Mary Lou Williams: Music for the Soul, Deanna Witkowski brings a fresh perspective to the life and music of the legendary jazz pianist-composer Mary Lou Williams (1910-81). As a fellow jazz pianist-composer, adult convert to Catholicism, and liturgical composer, Witkowski offers unique insight gleaned from a twenty-year journey with Williams as her chosen musical and spiritual mentor. Viewing Williams’s musical and corporal acts of mercy as part of a singular effort to create community no matter the context, Witkowski examines how Williams created networks of support and friendship through her decades long letter correspondence with various women religious, her charitable work, and her tireless efforts to perform jazz in churches, community centers, concert halls, and schools. Throughout this fascinating story told with equal amounts of deep love and scholarly research, Witkowski illumines Williams’s passionate mantra that “jazz is healing to the soul.”
Author : W. Royal Stokes
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195159271
In this collection of interviews, twenty-four instrumentalists and singers talk about the early influences that started them on the road to jazz and where that road has taken them.
Author : Billy Taylor
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1530511518
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Author : Maurice Jackson,Blair A. Ruble
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Jazz
ISBN : 9781626165908
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Poems -- Introduction -- 1 Jazz, "Great Black Music," and the Struggle for Racial and Social Equality in Washington, DC -- 2 Seventh Street: Black DC's Musical Mecca -- 3 Washington's Duke Ellington -- 4 Bill Brower: Notes from a Keen Observer and Scene Maker -- 5 Jazz Radio in Washington, DC -- 6 Legislating Jazz -- 7 The Beautiful Struggle: A Look at Women Who Have Helped Shape the DC Jazz Scene -- 8 No Church without a Choir: Howard University and Jazz in Washington, DC -- 9 From Federal City College to UDC: A Retrospective on Washington's Jazz University -- 10 Researching Jazz History in Washington, DC -- List of Contributors -- Photo Credits and Permissions -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
Author : Teresa L. Reed
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : 0813127939
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Jazz
ISBN : UVA:X030051452
Author : Eugene Marlow
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781496818003
"Is there jazz in China?" This is the question that sent author Eugene Marlow on his quest to uncover the history of jazz in China. Marlow traces China's introduction to jazz in the early 1920s, its interruption by Chinese leadership under Mao in 1949, and its rejuvenation in the early 1980s with the start of China's opening to the world under Premier Deng Xiaoping. Covering a span of almost one hundred years, Marlow focuses on a variety of subjects--the musicians who initiated jazz performances in China, the means by which jazz was incorporated into Chinese culture, and the musicians and venues that now present jazz performances. Featuring unique, face-to-face interviews with leading indigenous jazz musicians in Beijing and Shanghai, plus interviews with club owners, promoters, expatriates, and even diplomats, Marlow marks the evolution of jazz in China as it parallels China's social, economic, and political evolution through the twentieth and into the twenty-first century. Also featured is an interview with one of the extant members of the Jimmy King Big Band of the 1940s, one of the first major all-Chinese jazz big bands in Shanghai. Ultimately, Jazz in China: From Dance Hall Music to Individual Freedom of Expression is a cultural history that reveals the inexorable evolution of a democratic form of music in a Communist state.
Author : Sherrie Tucker
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0822328178
The story, based on extensive individual interviews, of the women’s swing bands that toured extensively during World War II and after -- a kind of “League of their Own” for jazz.
Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1564 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : OSU:32437123080703
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Author : Peter Pettinger
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300097271
Acclaimed by musicologists and illustrated with dozens of photographs, a detailed, painstakingly researched and finely written biography examines the life and music of the influential, classically trained jazz pianist Bill Evans and includes a full discography of his recordings. UP.