Classic Jazz

Name: Classic Jazz | A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians
Brand: University of California Press
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A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians

Floyd Levin(Author)

University of California Press

1st Edition

Will be published approx. on 30. April 2002

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Paperback/Softback

358 pages

978-0-520-23463-5 (ISBN)

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Floyd Levin, an award-winning jazz writer, has personally known many of the jazz greats who contributed to the music's colorful history. In this collection of his articles, published mostly in jazz magazines over a fifty-year period, Levin takes us into the nightclubs, the recording studios, the record companies, and, most compellingly, into the lives of the musicians who made the great moments of the traditional jazz and swing eras. Brilliantly weaving anecdotal material, primary research, and music analysis into every chapter, Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians is a gold mine of information on a rich segment of American popular music. This collection of articles begins with Levin's first published piece and includes several new articles that were inspired by his work on this compilation. The articles are organized thematically, beginning with a piece on Kid Ory's early recordings and ending with a newly written article about the campaign to put up a monument to Louis Armstrong in New Orleans.
Along the way, Levin gives in-depth profiles of many well-known jazz legends, such as Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong, and many lesser-known figures who contributed greatly to the development of jazz. Extensively illustrated with previously unpublished photographs from Levin's personal collection, this wonderfully readable and extremely personal book is full of information that is not available elsewhere. Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians will be celebrated by jazz scholars and fans everywhere for the overview it provides of the music's evolution, and for the love of jazz it inspires on every page.

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"Levin is an engaging writer and met personally and wrote frequently about the musical legends who shaped jazz in America before and shortly after World War II. The collection is anecdotally rich.... Very worthwhile."-Booklist; "Offers good essays on lesser-known artists."-Library Journal; "Delightful and fascinating. Dozens of rare pictures (many by Levin) fill out this volume, which is obviously a labor of love and fine reading."-San Francisco Chronicle; "[A] fine addition to any collection on jazz."-Charlotte Observer; "I've known Floyd and his wife Lucille for more than fifty years. Floyd's book is a colorful, intimate account of his lifelong love affair with jazz. I'm especially facinated when he writes about his personal encounters with some of the jazz legends of the Century. This book is essential reading for anyone concerned about jazz - its present, its past, and his evolution."-Milt Hinton

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FOREWORD BY BENNY CARTER
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION

1 KID ORY AND THE REVIVAL ERA
Kid Ory
Kid Ory's Legendary
Nordskog/Sunshine Recordings
Papa Mutt Carey
Buster Wilson
Andrew Blakeney
Ram Hall
Dink Johnson
Bud Scott
Joe Darensbourg
Ed "Montudie" Garland
Teddy Buckner

2 A PERSONAL VIEW OF THE MUSIC
Lieutenant Jim Europe's Hellfighters-The 369th Infantry Jazz Band
"I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate"
The First Recorded Hit of the Jazz Age
The World Premiere of "Rhapsody in Blue"
"Relaxin' at the Touro"-Memories of Muggsy Spanier
Spud Murphy
A Memorable Jack Teagarden Record Date
The Duke Ellington Sacred Music Concert-New Orleans, 1970
Dick Hyman's Historic Direct-to-CD Recording Session

3 A PERSONAL VIEW OF THE MUSICIANS
Benny Carter
James P. Johnson
Brun Campbell and Scott Joplin
Rex Stewart's Memories of Jelly Roll Morton
Anita Gonzales and the Untold Story of Jelly Roll Morton's Last Years
Johnny Guarnieri
I'm Just Wild about Eubie-Memories of Eubie Blake
Jess Stacy
Milt Hinton
Spiegle Willcox
Eddie Miller
Morty Corb
Barney Bigard
Wild Bill Davison
Rosy McHargue
Artie Shaw
Andy Razaf
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Coot Grant and Sox Wilson
The World's Greatest Jazz Band

4 THE INFLUENCE OF NEW ORLEANS
MUSICIANS ON CLASSIC JAZZ
The Jazz Journey-From Lulu White's Mahogany Hall to Carnegie Hall
Papa Celestin and the Voodoo Queen
Danny Barker-The Jazz Troubadour
Lorenzo Tio, Jr., and the Clarinetists of the Crescent City
Willie James Humphrey, Jr.
George Lewis
Alton Purnell
Bill Russell

5 THE GREAT LOUIS ARMSTRONG
Louis Armstrong's Underrated Recordings during the Big-Band Era
"Ambassador Satch" on the World Stage
A Sentimental Journey-Louis' Funeral

6 JAZZ ON THE WEST COAST
Los Angeles in the Swing Era
The Palomar Ballroom Fire
The Firehouse Five and the Good Time Jazz Record Company
The Yerba Buena Jazz Band and the Jazz Man Label
Benny Strickler
Turk Murphy's Final Triumph
I Remember Bob Scobey
Dave Dexter, Jr.
The Poor Angel Hot Jazz Society
Dick Cary's Tuesday Night Band

7 UNSUNG HEROES
Pete Daily
Stew Pletcher
Sammy Lee
Pud Brown
Bob McCracken
Pat Gogerty
Rick Fay

8 THE SEVEN-YEAR CHALLENGE TO COMPLETE THE LOUIS ARMSTRONG STATUE
A Fund Is Created in Old New Orleans
"For the Love of Louis," by Ned Brundage
Bing Crosby to the Rescue
July 4, 1976
EPILOGUE
INDEX

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