Jazz Masters of the Forties

Arts & Photography

GITLER, Ira.

Music

Collier Books

Back in the early 1940s, late at night in the clubs of Harlem, a handful of jazz musicians began to experiment with a style that no one had ever heard before. The music was fast, complicated, impossible to play for many of the older musicians -- but it soon became the lingua franca of jazz music. They called it bebop, and as the years went by, it became even more popular. Today it reigns as perhaps the best-loved style of jazz ever created. Ira Gitler conveys the excitement of this musical birth as only someone who was there can. In The Masters of Bebop, Gitler traces the advent of what was a revolution in sound. He profiles the leading players -- Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillepie, Max Roach -- but also studies the style and music of the first disciples, such as Dexter Gordon and J. J. Johnson, to reveal bebop's pervasive influence throughout American culture. Revised with an updated discography -- and with a new chapter covering bebop right up through the end of the twentieth century -- The Masters of Bebop is the essential listener's handbook.

JAZZ MASTERS OF THE FORTIES

Macmillan

This book willserve as the basic work on the rise and development of bop in jazz. Engendered by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, bebop, now known as bop, quickly became the most powerful musical force in modern jazz. Today it is still the main musical language of jazz musicians. Over a ten-year period, Ira Gitler interviewed more than 50 of the seminal figures in jazz history to preserve for posterity their recollections of how jazz moved from the big band era in the late '30s and '40s into the modern jazz period. The musicians interviewed recreate not only their own experiences but also evoke the legendary figures of bop who where so influential in its development but were never recorded, people like Clyde Hart and Freddie Webster. Swing to Bop shows how the music first established itself in jam sessions in Harlem and then spread to New York's famed 52nd Street and beyond. Separate chapters describe how young musicians in major cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago and Detroit became swept up in the movement. Along with the music and the personalities who made it, the book vividly recreates the atmosphere of the country in the '30s and '40s: traveling on the ballroom theather curcuit; racial attitudes and interaction; extra-musical pastimes; the relationship to World War II; and the influence of drugs. Thus Swing to Bop reveals not only how the music evolved but the environment in which it flourished and what effect in turn the music had on that environment and the music to follow. About the Author Ira Gitler is the author of Jazz Masters of the '40s and The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Seventies. He was previously Professor of Jazz History at City College of New York and Associate Editor of Downbeat.

Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s

Oxford University Press

This indispensable book brings us face to face with some of the most memorable figures in jazz history and charts the rise and development of bop in the late 1930s and '40s. Ira Gitler interviewed more than 50 leading jazz figures, over a 10-year period, to preserve for posterity their recollections of the transition in jazz from the big band era to the modern jazz period. The musicians interviewed, including both the acclaimed and the unrecorded, tell in their own words how this renegade music emerged, why it was a turning point in American jazz, and how it influenced their own lives and work. Placing jazz in historical context, Gitler demonstrates how the mood of the nation in its post-Depression years, racial attitudes of the time, and World War II combined to shape the jazz of today.

History & Criticism

Jazz Masters Of 40s

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Da Capo Press

Jazz Masters of the '40s (Macmillan Jazz Masters Series) [Aug 01, 1984] Gitler, Ira ...

Jazz Masters of the '40s (Macmillan Jazz Masters Series)

Da Capo Pr

Surveys the field of jazz during the 1970s, and provides information about and assessments of the musicians and composers who shaped the world of jazz

Encyclopedia Of Jazz Of The 70s (Da Capo Paperback)

Feather, Leonard

Back in the early 1940s, late at night in the clubs of Harlem, a handful of jazz musicians began to experiment with a style that no one had ever heard before. The music was fast, complicated, impossible to play for many of the older musicians—but it soon became the lingua franca of jazz music. They called it bebop, and as the years went by, it became even more popular. Today it reigns as perhaps the best-loved style of jazz ever created. Ira Gitler conveys the excitement of this musical birth as only someone who was there can. In The Masters of Bebop, Gitler traces the advent of what was a revolution in sound. He profiles the leading players—Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillepie, Max Roach—but also studies the style and music of the first disciples, such as Dexter Gordon and J. J. Johnson, to reveal bebop's pervasive influence throughout American culture. Revised with an updated discography—and with a new chapter covering bebop right up through the end of the twentieth century—The Masters of Bebop is the essential listener's handbook.

The Masters Of Bebop: A Listener's Guide

Da Capo

A compendium of facts, anecdotes, and advice about ice hockey.

Ice Hockey A to Z

Sports & Outdoors

Olympic Marketing Corp

From the Foreword:Violence seems to be ripping at our heels where we  turn today: in the streets; on television; in the newspapers; at the  movies. Life has always had its inherent violence, but it has never been  examined so closely and/or celebrated in the media as now. Movies, that  great "Dream Machine," depicted wars, mobsters and other subjects of a  violent nature, but essentially they used to be an escape from the  realities of everyday existence.Sports have also long taken us  "outside" ourselves, whether through participation or as spectators.  Their violent aspects - especially the contact sports - have allowed the  players and the fans to release pent-up energies and aggressive  feelings. Hockey, with fighting an accepted part of the game, is often a  survival of the fittest. While the contemporary version played in the  professional leagues is not as barbaric or bloody as it was in decades  past, there is still enough brawling, brutality, and just plain  toughness to make it one of the most challenging and emotional of  sports. The speed of the game combined with that emotionalism is perhaps  what causes two people to recount the same play or incident from  different viewpoints although they are in the same place at the same  time.

Blood on the Ice: Hockey's Most Violent Moments

Henry Regnery

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Jazz Masters of the Forties

JAZZ MASTERS OF THE FORTIES

Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s

Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s

Jazz Masters Of 40s

Jazz Masters of the '40s (Macmillan Jazz Masters Series)

Encyclopedia Of Jazz Of The 70s (Da Capo Paperback)

The Masters Of Bebop: A Listener's Guide

Ice Hockey A to Z

Blood on the Ice: Hockey's Most Violent Moments