Here's the definitive one-volume resource on everything jazz and blues! From their roots in African culture to their expression in the music of the twentieth century, the history of jazz and blues reveals how this truly American music came to be part of the soundtrack of contemporary urban life. Comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible, The ...
Jazz has always been an experimental art form, pushing the boundaries of the mainstream, searching for the new. As Howard Mandel reveals in this text, jazz is still reaching out in new directions. In a series of portraits and in-depth interviews with musicians, composers, experimenters and club owners, Mandel seeks to capture the vitality and the ...
Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, and Cecil Taylor revolutionized music from the end of the twentieth century into the twenty-first, expanding on jazz traditions with distinctly new concepts of composition, improvisation, instrumentation, and performance. They remain figures of controversy due to their border-crossing processes. "Miles, Ornette, Cecil ...
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Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta
