The Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz musician and composer explores how an understanding of jazz can lead to deeper, more original ways of being, living, and relating, for individuals, communities, and nations.
Internationally renowned jazz and classical musician Wynton Marsalis has created a wild, rhythmic jazz-focused ABC filled with poems, opening with Louis Armstrong, moving onto the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Ornette Colman, and ending with Dizzy Gillespie. From free verse for Charles Mingus, a short, sweet haiku for Thelonius ...
With a foreword by jazz icon Wynton Marsalis, this volume provides a history of jazz, an encyclopedia of essential composers and musicians, a recordings list, and a guide to jazz terminology and slang.
This work, the companion book to BBC television series broadcast in April, 1995, introduces readers of all ages to the pleasure of good music, both classical and jazz. Using everyday images and examples, it aims to make so-called "difficult" music vivid, understandable and, most importantly, fun.
Wynton Marsalis has often been accused of performing a "gatekeeping" role in jazz, championing traditional styles of the genre at the expense of newer and more avant-garde ways of playing. In this short but spirited defense, Marsalis uses the framework of a series of letters to "Anthony," a young jazz musician, to make the case for conventional ...
Drawing on the experts at Jazz at Lincoln Center and the author's knowledge, this guide explains the basics and includes a companion CD with performances by Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and many more. Consumable.
By touring with Wynton Marsalis and his septet, writer Carl Vigeland gained an intimate access to the life of a jazz musician. Here he shares his impressions.
In this collection of interviews conducted by music critic Tony Scherman, jazz musician Earl Palmer discusses songwriting, the New Orleans music scene, his collaborations with other famous musicians, and the racism that he encountered in the military during World War II.
This text portrays a year in the life of Wynton Marsalis, the great modern jazz musician and composer. In turn lyrical and down-to-earth, exalted and profane, the 12 chapters of this book reveal his distinctive views on the "road", romance, creativity, politics, culture, tradition and innovation, and the role of the artist in society. The result ...
The man with the golden trumpet--the quintessential jazzman, Louis Armstrong--is profiled in evocative photography. This book follows in Satchmo's footsteps, from 1901, when he was born the grandson of a slave, to his death in 1971, and the beginning of his immortal fame. 125 illustrations.
A breathtaking collection of photographs from the best dance photographers, along with behind the scenes and candid shots, illustrate every aspect of the company's history.
A newly discovered African-American artist pays tribute to the makers of jazz with exuberantly original paintings, personal recollections, and illuminating biographical sketches of 40 great jazz musicians that together add up to a superb full-color illustrated gift book for all ages.
Interpretations of jazz standards from the genre's leading contemporary trumpeter. Introduced and edited by Wynton himself. Titles are: April in Paris * Autumn Leaves * Caravan * Cherokee * Django * A Foggy Day * Linus and Lucy * The Song Is You * When You Wish Upon a Star.
Interpretations of classic ballads from the leading jazz trumpeter of the past 20 years. Each arrangement is meticulously edited by Wynton himself. Titles are: For All We Know * I Can't Get Started * It's Easy to Remember * My Ideal * Skylark * Stardust * Street of Dreams * Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) * Where or When.
La emocion de estar en un club de jazz o en concierto escuchando como se fragua esa musica es un lujo habitual para la mayoria de aficionados. Pero y si se pudiera profundizar aun mas, ir un poco mas lejos, estar alli, en la oscuridad de la noche, cuando nace una melodia? O en el autocar, en plena gira, cuando la banda arranca a tocar ...
The most popular and acclaimed jazz musician and composer of his generation, Wynton Marsalis has brought jazz back to the centre stage in world music. Winning the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in Music has made him the first jazz composer to win this high distinction, one that has been awarded exclusively to classical composers for the past five decades. In ...
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