Features articles and reviews on the Ellington legacy, George Duvivier, Milt Hinton, John Coltrane, a bibliography of British jazz periodicals, an expanded review section, and a review essay on jazz autobiographies.
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 ...
Features Thelonious Monk, McCoy Tyner, Count Basie, and John Coltrane.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
ARTICLES: BERGER, Morroe - Benny Carter: a life in American music; LAUBICH, Arnold - Art Tatum: a guide to his recorded music; DORAN, James M - Erroll Garner: the most happy piano; BROWN, Scott E - James P Johnson - a case of mistaken ...
Freedom Sounds will be avidly read by students and academics in musicology, ethnomusicology, anthropology, popular music, African American Studies, and African diasporic studies, as well as fans of jazz, hip hop, and African American music.
... Annual Review of Jazz Studies 5 ( 1991 ) : 145-180 . Devito , Chris , ed . Coltrane on Coltrane : The John Coltrane Interviews . Chicago Review Press , 2010 Porter , Lewis . John Coltrane : His Life and Music . Ann Arbor : University of ...
This comprehensive and accessible Companion is the first collection of essays to provide an in-depth overview of Ellington's career.
For other examples of “calypso” attire, see Nat Cole's performance of “Calypso Blues” in the film Rhythm and Blues Revue (Studio Films ... 78 Regarding calypso's early emergences in the U.S. market, see Michael Eldridge, “There Goes the ...