Nor would anyone take issue with the following claim: “Ella Fitzgerald has been called the greatest and the First Lady of Song and almost every other superlative for so long now that it begins to become one of those accepted bromides ...
Features Lester Young, early black recording, Earl Hines, jazz and bop harmony.
ARTICLES: WALTERS, Charles H - Anatomy of a cover: The story of Duke Ellington's appearance on the cover of Time Magazine; GABBARD, Krin - The jazz canon and its consequences; BAUER, William R - Billie Holiday and Betty Carter: Emotion and ...
The New Wave of Free Jazz , by Phil Freeman ( Telegraph , 2001 ) OPEN THE DOOR : The Life and Music of Betty Carter , by William R. Bauer ( University of Michigan Press , 2002 ) PENGUIN GUIDE TO JAZZ ON CD , Fifth Edition , ed . by ...
"From liner notes and reviews to profiles and extended analyses, all of Dan Morgenstern's most significant work is here, unified by his poised, always generous voice and the extraordinary depth...
Hoffman, Out of the New York Times, Jazz Advertised 1910—1967, vol. ... “Connie's Inn Opens on Broadway with Hot Show,” Chicago Defender, November 9, 1935, 9. ... Leonard Feather, liner notes, The Jazz Arranger, vol.
Out - of - print biographies include Svengali , or the Orchestra Called Gill [ sic ] Evans , by Raymond Horricks , and Las Vegas tango : Une vie de Gil Evans , by Laurent Cugny . An analysis of Evans's compositional techniques may be ...
Jeffrey Magee , The Uncrowned King of Swing : Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz ( New York : Oxford University Press , 2005 , 322 pp . , $ 30.00 ) Reviewed by Edward Berger Fletcher Henderson was in many ways an enigmatic figure ...
18-21 and Lewis Porter's discussion of Collier's birthplace argument in his " Some Problems in Jazz Research , " Black Music Research Journal 8 : 2 ( Fall , 1988 ) : 198 . 7. Collier , " Face to Face , " p . 39 . 8.
Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1996. Owens, Thomas. Bebop: The Music and Its Players. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Patrick, James. “Charlie Parker,” in The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. London: Macmillan, 1988/2002.
Review of Jazz Studies
Review of Jazz Studies
Features Thelonious Monk, McCoy Tyner, Count Basie, and John Coltrane.
This new volume is a special double issue covering the two years of 1997 and 1998. This volume is a must-have for collectors of this series and sure to be of interest to all jazz lovers.
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Annual Review of Jazz Studies