To A Young Jazz Musician

Author : Wynton Marsalis,Selwyn Seyfu Hinds
Publisher : Random House
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780307498311

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To a Young Jazz Musician by Wynton Marsalis,Selwyn Seyfu Hinds Pdf

In To a Young Jazz Musician, the renowned jazz musician and Pulitzer Prize—winning composer Wynton Marsalis gives us an invaluable guide to making good music–and to leading a good life. Writing from the road “between the bus ride, the sound check, and the gig,” Marsalis passes on wisdom gained from experience, addressed to a young musician coming up–and to any of us at any stage of life. He writes that having humility is a way to continue to grow, to listen, and to learn; that patience is necessary for developing both technical proficiency and your own art rather than an imitation of someone else’s; and that rules are indispensable because “freedom lives in structure.” He offers lessons learned from his years as a performer and from his great forebears Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, and others; he explores the art of swing; he discusses why it is important to run toward your issues, not away; and he talks about what to do when your integrity runs up against the lack thereof in others and in our culture. He poetically expresses our need for healers: “All of it tracks back to how you heal your culture, one patient at a time, beginning with yourself.” This is a unique book, in which a great artist offers his personal thoughts, both on jazz and on how to live a better, more original, productive, and meaningful life. To a Young Jazz Musician is sure to be treasured by readers young and old, musicians, lovers of music, and anyone interested in being mentored by one of America’s most influential, generous, and talented artists.

Author : Wynton Marsalis,Geoffrey Ward
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780812969085

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Moving to Higher Ground by Wynton Marsalis,Geoffrey Ward Pdf

In this beautiful book, Pulitzer Prize—winning musician and composer Wynton Marsalis draws upon lessons he’s learned from a lifetime in jazz–lessons that can help us all move to higher ground. With wit and candor he demystifies the music that is the birthright of every American and demonstrates how a real understanding of the central idea of jazz–the unique balance between self-expression and sacrifice for the common good exemplified on the bandstand–can enrich every aspect of our lives, from the bedroom to the boardroom, from the schoolroom to City Hall. Along the way, Marsalis helps us understand the life-changing message of the blues, reveals secrets about playing–and listening–and passes on wisdom he has gleaned from working with three generations of great musicians. Illuminating and inspiring, Moving to Higher Ground is a master class on jazz and life, conducted by a brilliant American artist.

Author : Dave Gelly
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199774791

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Being Prez by Dave Gelly Pdf

Lester Young was one of the great jazz masters, and his impact on the course of the art form was profound. He fundamentally changed the way the saxophone was played--his long, flowing lines brought new levels of expressiveness and subtlety to the jazz language, setting the standard for all modern players. In Being Prez, renowned British critic Dave Gelly follows Lester Young through his life in a rapidly changing world, showing how the music of this exceptionally sensitive man was shaped by his experiences. The reader meets a complicated, vulnerable, gentle individual who was brought up in his father's traveling carnival band. His early career was spent in the nightclubs and dancehalls of Kansas City and the Southwest, and he made his landmark recording debut at the peak of the Swing Era. But at the height of his powers, he was drafted into the US Army, where racism and his own unworldliness landed him in military prison. Following these events, Young grew increasingly withdrawn and suspicious, changes in his character reflected in the darkening mood of his music. Gelly, himself a jazz saxophonist, examines many of Young's classic recordings in illuminating detail. He reveals how as a saxophonist--and as major contributor to the Count Basie band--Young created a strong personal voice, a cool modernism, and a new rhythmic flexibility in the freely dancing rhythms of 4-beat swing. With his sax jutting oddly to one side, his bizarre oblique use of language, and his unique musical rapport with Billie Holiday (who famously nicknamed him "Prez"), Lester Young has become an icon and a cult figure. This marvelous biography illuminates the life and work of this giant of jazz.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Wildlife management
ISBN : MINN:30000000976690

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Fish and Wildlife News by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pannonica de Koenigswarter
Publisher : Abrams Image
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131743291

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Three Wishes by Pannonica de Koenigswarter Pdf

Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter befriended many of jazz greats of the thriving New York jazz scene in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. In the 1960s, she began a project: She asked 300 jazz musicians what their three wishes in life were. Their responses are collected in this volume, available in English for the first time, and are accompanied by hundreds of candid photographs.--From cover, p. [4].

Author : Esi Edugyan
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443433495

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Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan Pdf

The brilliant, bestselling, Giller Prize–winning novel Esi Edugyan’s Half-Blood Blues took the literary world by storm when it was first published, captivating readers and reviewers with its audacity, power, and sheer brilliance. The novel won or was nominated for every literary prize in Canada—and many international ones, too, including the prestigious Man Booker Prize. It was hailed as one of the best books of the year by Oprah, The Globe and Mail, Amazon, The San Francisco Chronicle and The Vancouver Sun, and it was named a New York Times Editor’s Choice. From the smoky bars of pre-war Berlin to the salons of Paris, the narrator of Half-Blood Blues, musician Sid Griffiths, leads the reader through a fascinating, little-known world and into the heart of his own guilty conscience. The bestselling, award-winning Half-Blood Blues is an entrancing, electric story about jazz, race, love and loyalty, and the sacrifices we ask of ourselves—and demand of others—in the name of art.

Author : Dave Liebman,Lewis Porter
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810882034

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What it is by Dave Liebman,Lewis Porter Pdf

Dave Liebman is one of the leading forces in contemporary jazz. Prominently known for performing with Miles Davis and Elvin Jones, he has exerted considerable influence as a saxophonist, bandleader, composer, author, and educator. In What It Is: The Life of a Jazz Artist, friend, pianist, and noted jazz scholar Lewis Porter conducts a series of in-depth interviews with Liebman, who discusses his professional, personal, and musical relationships with notable musicians, as well as such personal matters as contracting polio as a child. Featuring rare photos from Liebman's personal collection, this fascinating and witty story will not only appeal to jazz fans and scholars but also to those readers interested in the story of how a young man followed his dream to become one of the leading jazz artists of our time.

Author : Mark Stryker
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780472074266

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Jazz from Detroit by Mark Stryker Pdf

Jazz from Detroit explores the city’s pivotal role in shaping the course of modern and contemporary jazz. With more than two dozen in-depth profiles of remarkable Detroit-bred musicians, complemented by a generous selection of photographs, Mark Stryker makes Detroit jazz come alive as he draws out significant connections between the players, eras, styles, and Detroit’s distinctive history. Stryker’s story starts in the 1940s and ’50s, when the auto industry created a thriving black working and middle class in Detroit that supported a vibrant nightlife, and exceptional public school music programs and mentors in the community like pianist Barry Harris transformed the city into a jazz juggernaut. This golden age nurtured many legendary musicians—Hank, Thad, and Elvin Jones, Gerald Wilson, Milt Jackson, Yusef Lateef, Donald Byrd, Tommy Flanagan, Kenny Burrell, Ron Carter, Joe Henderson, and others. As the city’s fortunes change, Stryker turns his spotlight toward often overlooked but prescient musician-run cooperatives and self-determination groups of the 1960s and ’70s, such as the Strata Corporation and Tribe. In more recent decades, the city’s culture of mentorship, embodied by trumpeter and teacher Marcus Belgrave, ensured that Detroit continued to incubate world-class talent; Belgrave protégés like Geri Allen, Kenny Garrett, Robert Hurst, Regina Carter, Gerald Cleaver, and Karriem Riggins helped define contemporary jazz. The resilience of Detroit’s jazz tradition provides a powerful symbol of the city’s lasting cultural influence. Stryker’s 21 years as an arts reporter and critic at the Detroit Free Press are evident in his vivid storytelling and insightful criticism. Jazz from Detroit will appeal to jazz aficionados, casual fans, and anyone interested in the vibrant and complex history of cultural life in Detroit.

Author : Leslie Gourse
Publisher : Schirmer Trade Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Jazz
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028563224

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Wynton Marsalis by Leslie Gourse Pdf

Presents the first full-length biography of the masterful trumpeter, composer, and cofounder of Jazz at Lincoln Center, revealing the private side of one of the most talented and controversial figures in music today. Explores his early years, his education, and his development into a celebrated performer and composer, and discusses his strong opinions in music education and his efforts to carve a place for jazz within the classical music establishment. Includes bandw photos taken in the 1970s-1990s, from personal collections. Gourse is the author of numerous award-winning biographies of jazz performers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Francis Davis
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001-09-13
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110395014

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Like Young by Francis Davis Pdf

In this collection of essays, one of the nation's savviest music and cultural critics observes the modern jazz and pop icons who have reached middle age at the same moment as many of their listeners.

Author : Marian Jago
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780774837712

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Live at The Cellar by Marian Jago Pdf

In the 1950s and ’60s, co-operative jazz clubs opened their doors in Canada in response to new forms of jazz expression emerging after the war and the lack of performance spaces outside major urban centres. Operated by the musicians themselves, these hip new clubs created spaces where jazz musicians practised their art. Live at the Cellar looks at this unique period in the development of jazz in Canada. Centered on Vancouver’s legendary Cellar club, it explores the ways in which these clubs functioned as sites for the performance and exploration of jazz as well as for countercultural expression. Jago combines original research with archival evidence, interviews, and photographs to shine a light on a period of astonishing musical activity that paved the way for Canada’s vibrant jazz scene today.

Author : David Schroeder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781315282558

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From the Minds of Jazz Musicians by David Schroeder Pdf

From the Minds of Jazz Musicians: Conversations with the Creative and Inspired celebrates contemporary jazz artists who have toiled, struggled and succeeded in finding their creative space. The volume was developed through transcribing and editing selected interviews with 35 jazz artists, conducted by the author between 2009 and 2012 in New York City, with a historical essay on each artist to provide context. The interviews feature musicians from a broad range of musical styles and experiences, ranging from Gerald Wilson, born in 1918, to Chris Potter, born in 1971. Topics range from biographical life histories to artists’ descriptions of mentor relationships, revealing the important life lessons they learned along the way. With the goal to discover the person behind the persona, the author elicits conversations that speak volumes on the creative process, mining the individualistic perspectives of seminal artists who witnessed history in the making. The interviews present the artists’ candid and direct opinions on music and how they have succeeded in pursuing their unique and creative lives.

Author : Geoff Dyer
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780857863355

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But Beautiful by Geoff Dyer Pdf

Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano. . . In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skilfully evokes the embattled lives of the players who shaped modern jazz. He draws on photos and anecdotes, but music is the driving force of But Beautiful and Dyer brings it to life in luminescent and wildly metaphoric prose that mirrors the quirks, eccentricity, and brilliance of each musician's style.

Author : Wynton Marsalis,Carl Vigeland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0756765722

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Jazz in the Bittersweet Blues of Life by Wynton Marsalis,Carl Vigeland Pdf

Set in the studio, on the stage, and in great cities and small towns across the country, this book captures life on the road for Marsalis and his musicians, evoking the ritual and renewal, energy and spirituality. 6 photos.

Author : Joel Newsome
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781502633217

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Louis Armstrong by Joel Newsome Pdf

The world of jazz was just developing when Louis Armstrong was born in 1901. During his life, Armstrong became a defining figure in the burgeoning jazz movement, developing his own style in both bands and in a solo career. His unique approach inspired other jazz contemporaries, including Bing Crosby and Billie Holiday. This is the story of his life, death, and legacy, and his lasting influence on jazz today.