Swing Era Scrapbook

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Swing Era Scrapbook

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Author : Bob Inman
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2005

Swing Era Scrapbook written by Bob Inman and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

A wonderful reminder for those who lived through the Swing Era, Bob Inman's radio logs also serve as a valuable and lively reference source for researchers and students of social history and jazz music. Inman's radio logs contain first-hand accounts of live Manhattan Swing shows he witnessed, and is well-illustrated with over 500 photographs of prominent musicians from the height of the Swing Era.

Becoming Ella Fitzgerald

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Author : Judith Tick
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2023-12-05

Becoming Ella Fitzgerald written by Judith Tick and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

An NPR “Books We Love” Pick of the Year A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of the Year “[A] radiant, rich, no-stone-unturned biography.”—Paula J. Giddings, author of When and Where I Enter 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.

Tappin At The Apollo

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Author : Cheryl M. Willis
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2016-05-02

Tappin At The Apollo written by Cheryl M. Willis and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-02 with Performing Arts categories.

In the 1920s and 1930s, Edwina "Salt" Evelyn and Jewel "Pepper" Welch learned to tap dance on street corners in New York and Philadelphia. By the 1940s, they were Black show business headliners, playing Harlem's Apollo Theater with the likes of Count Basie, Fats Waller and Earl "Fatha" Hines. Their exuberant tap style, usually performed by men, earned them the respect of their male peers and the acclaim of audiences. Based on extensive interviews with Salt and Pepper, this book chronicles for the first time the lives and careers of two overlooked female performers who succeeded despite the racism, sexism and homophobia of the Big Band era.

Jazz Education Journal

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007

Jazz Education Journal written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Jazz categories.

Benny Goodman And The Swing Era

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Author : James Lincoln Collier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989

Benny Goodman And The Swing Era written by James Lincoln Collier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

This is the story of Goodman's life as seen through the music and social world of the Great Depression in the 1930s and beyond. Collier chronicles the rise and success of Goodman and his band against the social milieu and popular music of the time.

Coda Magazine

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005

Coda Magazine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Jazz categories.

The Clarinet

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006

The Clarinet written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Clarinet categories.

Mission Impossible

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Author : Lalo Schifrin
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2008-06-27

Mission Impossible written by Lalo Schifrin and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Accompanying audio CD features some of Schifrin's compositions: Mission : impossible (from Firebird), Sketches of Miles (from More jazz meets the symphony), Tango del atardecer (from Letters from Argentina), Ins and outs (from Ins and Outs and Lalo live at the Blue Note), Montuno (from Latin jazz suite), Shifting gears (from Bullitt), Kyrie (from Jazz mass), Charlie Parker : the firebird (from Firebird), and Tocata (from Gillespiana).

The Story Of Fake Books

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Author : Barry Kernfeld
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2006-08-24

The Story Of Fake Books written by Barry Kernfeld and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-24 with Music categories.

Fake books-anthologies of songs notated in a musical shorthand-have been used by countless pop and jazz musicians in both professional and amateur settings for more than half a century. The Story of Fake Books: Bootlegging Songs to Musicians traces the entertaining and previously unknown account of the origins of pop song fake books, which evolved through the bootlegging of a now obscure musical subscription service, the Tune-Dex. The book follows the history of fake books through their increased popularity among musicians to their prosecution by the government and the music industry, resulting in America's first full-blown federal trial for criminal copyright infringement. Through accounts given by jazz musicians Steve Swallow and Pat Metheny, The Story of Fake Books also reveals the definitive history of the most popular fake book, one that has acquired a legendary status among jazz musicians: an anthology of jazz tunes called The Real Book. Drawing from information in FBI files, entertainment trade papers, and federal court records, author Barry Kernfeld presents pioneering research, which brings together aspects of pop music history and copyright law to disclose this predecessor of current-day battles over pop song piracy.

Charlie Parker Jazz Club Memorabilia

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Author : Ken Vail
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007

Charlie Parker Jazz Club Memorabilia written by Ken Vail and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Jazz categories.