Short biographies of twenty-one outstanding jazz figures provide an overview of the lives and events that shaped a major aspect of American music

The Jazz Makers

Hentoff, Nat

Shapiro, Nat

Biographies & Memoirs

Da Capo Press

Collected here for the first time are more than 2,000 wise and witty quotations on every type of music and musicians, from Plato to Igor Stravinsky, Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, John Lennon, and a host of other luminaries. What they have to say about composers, concerts, critics, conducting, various instruments, and about music and truth, solitude, women, love, death, war, and health makes a true Bartlett's for music-lovers and -haters alike.

An Encyclopedia of Quotations about Music

Arts & Photography

Music

"Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." — Charlie Parker "What is jazz? The rhythm — the feeling." — Coleman Hawkins "The best sound usually comes the first time you do something. If it's spontaneous, it's going to be rough, not clean, but it's going to have the spirit which is the essence of jazz." — Dave Brubeck Here, in their own words, such famous jazz musicians as Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Fletcher Henderson, Bunk Johnson, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Clarence Williams, Jo Jones, Jelly Roll Morton, Mezz Mezzrow, Billie Holiday, and many others recall the birth, growth, and changes in jazz over the years. From its beginnings at the turn of the twentieth century in the red-light district in New Orleans (or Storyville, as it came to be known), to Chicago's Downtown section and the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and Chicago's South Side to jam sessions in Kansas City to Harlem during the Depression years, the West Coast and modern developments, the story of jazz is vividly and colorfully documented in hundreds of personal interviews, letters, tape recorded and telephone conversations, and excerpts from previously printed articles that appeared in books and magazines. There is no more fascinating and lively history of jazz than this firsthand telling by the men who made it. It should be read and re-read by all jazz enthusiasts, musicians, students of music and culture, students of American history, and other readers. "A lively book bearing the stamp of honesty and naturalness." — Library Journal. "A work of considerable substance." — The New Yorker. "Some of the quotations are a bit racy but they give the book a wonderful flavor." — San Francisco Chronicle.

Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz As Told by the Men Who Made It

History

Americas

Dover Publications

An Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music

DOUBLEDAY

Popular Music: 1940-1949

Adrian Pr

Popular Music, 1960-1964

Gale/Cengage Learning

A reference guide to the composers, publishers, and major performances of significant folk, jazz, rock, blues, and country songs

Popular Music, 1970-1974: An Annotated Index of American Popular Songs (POPULAR MUSIC (GALE RES))

Popular Music: An Annotated Index of American Popular Songs : 1975-1979 (POPULAR MUSIC (GALE RES))

Popular Music: 1980-1984 : An Annotated Index of American Popular Songs (POPULAR MUSIC (GALE RES))

Pollock, Bruce

Shapiro, Hentoff, and seven contributors write of the lives and works of 19 men and two women famous in American jazz.

Praeger Pub Text

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