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JAZZITUDE BOOKSTORE
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HISTORY & CRITICISM |
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A
Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album
by Ashley Kahn, Elvin Jones
A Love Supreme was written with the
full cooperation of Coltrane's family and features the voices
of more than a hundred musicians, producers, and witnesses,
including the surviving participants in the album: Elvin Jones,
pianist McCoy Tyner, and engineer Rudy Van Gelder. With unpublished
interviews with Coltrane and bassist Jimmy Garrison and scores
of never-before-seen photographs, A Love Supreme
weaves a rich historical backdrop to the 1964 recording and
examines the questions and myths surrounding the album.
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About the Album |
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The
Land Where the Blues Began
by Alan Lomax |
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Jazz
Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce
by Alfred Appel |
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The
Oxford Companion to Jazz
by Bill Kirchner
This new collection of 60 essays surveys the
entire history of jazz and purports to contain "a thoroughness
found in no other single jazz reference." The essays,
written by 59 current jazz performers, writers, and scholars,
are much longer than the typical Oxford Companion entry. The
average length is 13 pages, although the range is anywhere
from 7 to 22 pages. There is one black-and-white photograph
per article. The essays provide overviews of different styles
and periods. Other topics include the roots of jazz, biographies
of performers, examinations of individual jazz instruments,
an analysis of the impact of jazz on American culture, and
a discussion of jazz outside the U.S. Arrangement is loosely
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Visions
of Jazz: The First Century
by Gary Giddins
Poised to become a jazz classic, Visions
of Jazz: The First Century contains 79 chapters illuminating
the lives of virtually all major figures in jazz history.
From Louis Armstrong's renegade style trumpet playing to Frank
Sinatra's intimate crooning, jazz critic Gary Giddins continually
astonishes the reader with his unparalleled insight. Giddins
opens the doors of jazz to include musicians such as Irving
Berlin and Rosemary Clooney, who have been traditionally dismissed
by fans and critics as merely popular derivatives of true
jazz. And he devotes an entire quarter of this volume to young,
active jazz artists, boldly expanding the horizon of jazz
and its influences like no other book has done. |
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Jazz:
A History of America's Music
by Geoffrey C. Ward, et al |
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The
Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz
by Leonard Feather (Editor), Ira Gitler (Editor) |
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The
New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
by Barry Kernfeld (Editor) |
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