Before we dive into the details, let’s look at our top 3 jazz history books: So, without any further ado, here’s our run down of 10 incredibly insightful jazz history books which might deserve a place on your reading list… Table of Contents Jazz Music History Early Jazz: Its Roots ...
Best books about jazz On Jazz – A Personal Journey Alyn Shipton Interweaving a musical autobiography with a series of accounts of meetings with remarkable jazz musicians is clearly a good idea if you happen to be Alyn Shipton, the respected jazz writer, researcher, broadcaster etc. He’s spen...
英文原版 The Penguin Jazz Guide : The History of the Music in the 1000 Best Albums 企鹅爵士指南1000首专辑中的音乐史百科点击进入9.9元专区>> ¥188.00 降价通知 10.0 1人评分精彩评分送积分 作者 Morton, Brian 查看作品 出版 Penguin Publishing Group,2010年12月 查看作品 分类 图书>英文原版书>...
Jazz and Justice, by Gerald Horne (2019) This is one of the jazz history books that explore how jazz and its musicians flourished regardless of the rampant cultural exploitation. Jazz arose based on African music traditions and slavery freedom. The genre was grounded in the “blues,” the typ...
Why You Should Read: Set in Mexico during the Jazz Age, I appreciated the culture and the historical setting. Plus, there’s a Mayan god as a love interest! In short, Silvia Moreno-Garcia delivers phenomenal characters and a unique paranormal love story. The book was a Nebula Award final...
The DC Extended Universe (DCEU) was been a hot mess before it was consigned to the history books, but it's hoped that new DC Studios co-heads James Gunn and Peter Safran's DCU reboot can put it on a firmer footing. While they attempt to turn those fortunes around, the DCEU's defu...
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Badu answered by being all that and more. The jazz-inflected beat on “On & On” lopes along, peppered with sly, self-aware lyrics that are as humorous as they are timely. This track was the very first taste of what was to come from an artist who has smashed through every musical bo...
readingforaficionadosandjazznovicesalike.'It'sthekindofbookthatyou'llyankofftheshelftolookupaquickfactandstillbereadingtwohourslater'——"Fortune".'Partjazzhistory,partjazzKarmaSutrawithCookandMortonastheknowledgeable,urbane,wiseandwittyguides...Thisisoneofthegreatbooksofrecordedjazz;theotherguidesdon'tcome...
As Mancini is quoted as saying in this new book, “The title theme actually derives more from rock ‘n’ roll than from jazz.” The ways in which either that indelible theme or Mancini’s three seasons’ worth of scoring as a whole were game-changers aren’t easy to add...