Jazz is the most colourful and varied art form in the world and it was born in one of the most colourful and varied cities, New Orleans. From the seed first planted by slave dances held in Congo Square and nurtured by early ensembles led by Buddy Bolden and Joe 'King' Oliver, jazz began its long winding odyssey across America and around the world, ...
The blues grew out of the plantations and prisons, the swampy marshes and fertile cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta. With original research and keen insight, Ted Gioia - the author of a landmark study of West Coast jazz and the critically acclaimed "The History of Jazz" - brings to life the stirring music of the Delta, evoking the legendary ...
Traces the story of American West Coast jazz from its roots to its decline in the face of rock'n'roll. The text features profiles of jazz greats who became popular during this era, including Dave Brubeck, Charlie Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Gerry Mulligan and Stan Getz.
This stimulating and perceptive study of jazz relates the work of jazz artists such as Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Lester Young, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, and Ornette Coleman to such subjects as primitivism in the arts, neoclassicism, good and bad taste, improvisation and recordings and the imperfection of art, and ...
While the first healers were musicians who relied on rhythm and song to help cure the sick, over time Western thinkers and doctors lost touch with these traditions. In the West, for almost two millennia, the roles of the healer and the musician have been strictly separated. Until recently, that is the situation. Over the past few decades there has ...
All societies have relied on music to transform the experience of work. Songs accompanied the farmer's labours, calmed the herder's flock, and set in motion the spinner's wheel. Today this tradition continues. Music blares on the shop floor; song accompanies transactions in the retail store; the radio keeps the trucker going on the long-distance ...
Because jazz is a world of vast horizons, there are few who explore it in depth. Ted Gioia carries out an extensive musical lesson at the same time as preparing a succulent banquet of suggestions for the interested reader and offering a challenge that no erudite in the topic can avoid. Here the greatest masters of jazz of all times are gathered, ...
It's hard to imagine that "the cool" could ever go out of style. After all, cool is style. Isn't it? And it may be harder to imagine a world where people no longer aspire to coolness. In this intriguing cultural history, nationally acclaimed author Ted Gioia shows why cool is not a timeless concept and how it has begun to lose meaning and fade ...
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