Jazz and its colorful, expansive history resonate in this unique
collection of 60 essays specially-commissioned from today's top jazz
performers, writers, and scholars. Contributors include such jazz
insiders as Bill Crow, Samuel A. Floyd Jr., Ted Gioia, Gene Lees, Dan
Morgenstern, Gunther Schuller, Richard M. Sudhalter, and Patricia
Willard. Both a reference book and an engaging read, the Companion
surveys the evolution of jazz from its roots in Africa and Europe until
the present. Along the way, each distinctive style and period is
profiled by an expert in the field. Whether your preference is ragtime,
the blues, bebop, or fusion, you will find the chief characteristics and
memorable performances illuminated here with a thoroughness found in no
other single-volume jazz reference.
The Oxford Companion to Jazz
features individual biographies of the most memorable characters of
this relatively young art form. Sidney Bechet, King Oliver, Jelly Roll
Morton, Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington,
Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Thelonious
Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, and the divas of jazz song--Ella
Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Sarah Vaughan--come to life in
thoughtful considerations of their influences, often turbulent personal
lives, and signature styles. In addition, this book looks at the impact
of jazz on American culture-in literature, film, television, and
dance-and explores the essential instruments of jazz and their most
memorable players.
The Oxford Companion to Jazz
will provide a quick reference source as well as a dynamic and broad
overview for all lovers of jazz, from novices to aficionados.
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