Legends of Jazz
White Star (Publisher)
Published on 27. February 2025
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-88-544-2128-8 (ISBN)
Description
Improvisation, swing, blue notes, glissando, scat... these and other ingredients have made jazz a unique musical genre, unmistakable and loved in every corner of the globe. Born in the United States at the end of the 19th century, jazz has its roots in Afro-American music, but has succeeded in becoming contaminated owing to contributions from different styles, fragmenting in turn into countless currents and categories. From the first New Orleans bands, passing through the absolute genius of "Satchmo" Armstrong - who became model for all later jazz musicians - to the big bands of Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, and Benny Goodman, or to the unsurpassed singing performances of Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, this book retraces the history of jazz, lingering on the most outstanding personalities and musical excerpts that have marked this musical genre more than any other. Besides the classics, ample space is reserved also for artists of the second postwar period who succeeded in renewing jazz, restoring its freshness and vitality again for the new generations of artists that today tread the musical scene.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Vercelli
Italy
Illustrations
150 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 251 mm
Width: 221 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
1320 gr
ISBN-13
978-88-544-2128-8 (9788854421288)
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Bill Milkowski is a New York-based freelance writer who has contributed to several publications since the 1970s, including DownBeat, JazzTimes, JAZZIZ, Bass Player, Guitar Player, Modern Drummer, Absolute Sound, and Jazzthing. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he began his career in music journalism, he relocated to New York City in 1980, moved to New Orleans in 1993, and returned to New York in 1997. Milkowski was named Writer of the Year for 2004 by the Jazz Journalists Association. Grammy-winning saxophonist and composer Joe Lovano is fearless in finding new modes of artistic expression. With 12 Nominations and a Grammy for his 52nd Street Themes, he has won DownBeat magazine's Critics and Readers Polls many times as Tenor Saxophonist, Musician of the Year, and Jazz Album of the Year. Joe has recorded with a long list of jazz greats including Woody Herman, Mel Lewis, Bob Brookmeyer, John Scofield, Paul Motian, Bill Frisell, Gunther Schuller, Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, Ed Blackwell, Dave Holland, Hank Jones, Dave Liebman, Michael Brecker, Ravi Coltrane, and many others.
Content
1. JELLY ROLL MORTON: THE INVENTOR OF JAZZ?
2. LOUIS ARMSTRONG: JAZZ'S FIRST SOLO GENIUS
3. SIDNEY BECHET: NEW ORLEANS CLARINET INNOVATOR
4. BIX BEIDERBECKE: JAZZ AGE TRUMPET PHENOM
5. DUKE ELLINGTON: ELEGANT MAESTRO, JAZZ AMBASSADOR
6. CAB CALLOWAY: HIS HI-DEHIGHNESS OF HO-DE-HO
7. FATS WALLER: EBULLIENT JIVESTER, STRIDE STYLIST
8. DJANGO REINHARDT: EUROPE'S FIRST JAZZ STAR
9. COUNT BASIE: SWINGING THE BLUES
10. CHICK WEBB: SULTAN OF THE SAVOY BALLROOM
11. BENNY GOODMAN: THE KING OF SWING
12. CHARLIE CHRISTIAN: ELECTRIC GUITAR PIONEER
13. LIONEL HAMPTON: JAMMER, JIVESTER, PIONEERING VIBIST
14. GENE KRUPA: FLAMBOYANT DRUMMIN' MAN
15. BILLIE HOLIDAY: LADY SINGS THE BLUES
16. COLEMAN HAWKINS: THE SONG OF THE HAWK
17. LESTER YOUNG: PRESIDENT OF THE TENOR SAXOPHONE
18. CHARLIE PARKER: HIGHFLYING BIRD AND THE BIRTH OF BEBOP
19. DIZZY GILLESPIE: BEBOP ARCHITECT, LATIN JAZZ INNOVATOR
20. THELONIOUS MONK: THE HIGH PRIEST OF BEBOP
21. ART TATUM: VIRTUOSO OF THE HIGHEST ORDER
22. SARAH VAUGHAN: THE DIVINE ONE
23. ELLA FITZGERALD: FIRST LADY OF SONG
24. BUDDY RICH: 'THE WORLD'S GREATEST DRUMMER'
25. MAX ROACH: BEBOP PIONEER, MUSICAL DRUMMER
26. MILES DAVIS: THE PICASSO OF JAZZ
27. BUD POWELL: THE CHARLIE PARKER OF PIANO
28. BILL EVANS: NEW IMPRESSIONS FOR PIANO
29. SONNY ROLLINS: SAXOPHONE COLOSSUS
30. JOHN COLTRANE: GIANT STEPS TO THE NEW THING
31. ART BLAKEY: THE INDESTRUCTIBLE BU
32. HORACE SILVER: FATHER OF FUNKY HARD BOP
33. STAN GETZ: THE SOUND, THE SWING, THE SAMBA
34. DAVE BRUBECK: ADVENTURES IN TIME
35. CHET BAKER: POIGNANT TONES, RAVAGED LIFE
36. CHARLES MINGUS: FORMIDABLE BASSIST, PROLIFIC COMPOSER
37. RAY CHARLES: R&B PIONEER MEETS JAZZ
38. ORNETTE COLEMAN: SAX REVOLUTIONARY, FREE JAZZ ICON
39. JIMMY SMITH: THE ORIGINAL HAMMOND B-3 BURNER
40. WES MONTGOMERY: HEIR TO CHARLIE CHRISTIAN'S THRONE
41. FREDDIE HUBBARD: BADDEST TRUMPET MAN ON THE PLANET
42. HERBIE HANCOCK: CROSSING THE ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC DIVIDE
43. WAYNE SHORTER: THE ENIGMATIC MR. GONE
44 JOE ZAWINUL: VISIONARY KEYBOARDIST, FUSION INNOVATOR
45 CHICK COREA: NO MYSTERY TO HIS MASTERY
46. JOHN MCLAUGHLIN: A BONA FIDE GUITAR AVATAR
47. JACO PASTORIUS: 'THE WORLD'S GREATEST BASS PLAYER'
48. PAT METHENY: NEW HORIZONS FOR JAZZ GUITAR
49. KEITH JARRETT: THE ART OF THE IMPROVISER
50. WYNTON MARSALIS: 21ST CENTURY JAZZ AMBASSADOR
51. JOE LOVANO: IN THE TRADITION, TO THE FUTURE
2. LOUIS ARMSTRONG: JAZZ'S FIRST SOLO GENIUS
3. SIDNEY BECHET: NEW ORLEANS CLARINET INNOVATOR
4. BIX BEIDERBECKE: JAZZ AGE TRUMPET PHENOM
5. DUKE ELLINGTON: ELEGANT MAESTRO, JAZZ AMBASSADOR
6. CAB CALLOWAY: HIS HI-DEHIGHNESS OF HO-DE-HO
7. FATS WALLER: EBULLIENT JIVESTER, STRIDE STYLIST
8. DJANGO REINHARDT: EUROPE'S FIRST JAZZ STAR
9. COUNT BASIE: SWINGING THE BLUES
10. CHICK WEBB: SULTAN OF THE SAVOY BALLROOM
11. BENNY GOODMAN: THE KING OF SWING
12. CHARLIE CHRISTIAN: ELECTRIC GUITAR PIONEER
13. LIONEL HAMPTON: JAMMER, JIVESTER, PIONEERING VIBIST
14. GENE KRUPA: FLAMBOYANT DRUMMIN' MAN
15. BILLIE HOLIDAY: LADY SINGS THE BLUES
16. COLEMAN HAWKINS: THE SONG OF THE HAWK
17. LESTER YOUNG: PRESIDENT OF THE TENOR SAXOPHONE
18. CHARLIE PARKER: HIGHFLYING BIRD AND THE BIRTH OF BEBOP
19. DIZZY GILLESPIE: BEBOP ARCHITECT, LATIN JAZZ INNOVATOR
20. THELONIOUS MONK: THE HIGH PRIEST OF BEBOP
21. ART TATUM: VIRTUOSO OF THE HIGHEST ORDER
22. SARAH VAUGHAN: THE DIVINE ONE
23. ELLA FITZGERALD: FIRST LADY OF SONG
24. BUDDY RICH: 'THE WORLD'S GREATEST DRUMMER'
25. MAX ROACH: BEBOP PIONEER, MUSICAL DRUMMER
26. MILES DAVIS: THE PICASSO OF JAZZ
27. BUD POWELL: THE CHARLIE PARKER OF PIANO
28. BILL EVANS: NEW IMPRESSIONS FOR PIANO
29. SONNY ROLLINS: SAXOPHONE COLOSSUS
30. JOHN COLTRANE: GIANT STEPS TO THE NEW THING
31. ART BLAKEY: THE INDESTRUCTIBLE BU
32. HORACE SILVER: FATHER OF FUNKY HARD BOP
33. STAN GETZ: THE SOUND, THE SWING, THE SAMBA
34. DAVE BRUBECK: ADVENTURES IN TIME
35. CHET BAKER: POIGNANT TONES, RAVAGED LIFE
36. CHARLES MINGUS: FORMIDABLE BASSIST, PROLIFIC COMPOSER
37. RAY CHARLES: R&B PIONEER MEETS JAZZ
38. ORNETTE COLEMAN: SAX REVOLUTIONARY, FREE JAZZ ICON
39. JIMMY SMITH: THE ORIGINAL HAMMOND B-3 BURNER
40. WES MONTGOMERY: HEIR TO CHARLIE CHRISTIAN'S THRONE
41. FREDDIE HUBBARD: BADDEST TRUMPET MAN ON THE PLANET
42. HERBIE HANCOCK: CROSSING THE ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC DIVIDE
43. WAYNE SHORTER: THE ENIGMATIC MR. GONE
44 JOE ZAWINUL: VISIONARY KEYBOARDIST, FUSION INNOVATOR
45 CHICK COREA: NO MYSTERY TO HIS MASTERY
46. JOHN MCLAUGHLIN: A BONA FIDE GUITAR AVATAR
47. JACO PASTORIUS: 'THE WORLD'S GREATEST BASS PLAYER'
48. PAT METHENY: NEW HORIZONS FOR JAZZ GUITAR
49. KEITH JARRETT: THE ART OF THE IMPROVISER
50. WYNTON MARSALIS: 21ST CENTURY JAZZ AMBASSADOR
51. JOE LOVANO: IN THE TRADITION, TO THE FUTURE