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Jazz : A History of America's Music by Ken Burns and Geoffrey C. Ward (2002, Trade Paperback)

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He lives in New York City. Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Tatum, Count Basie, Dave Brubeck, Artie Shaw, and Ella Fitzgerald are all here; so are Sidney Bechet, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, and a host of others.

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A masterpiece that brings to life the fascinating story of the quintessential American music--jazz. Visually stunning, with more than five hundred photographs, this companion volume to the acclaimed ten-part PBS TV series is an exploration of the music that celebrates all Americans at their best. Here are the stories of the extraordinary men and women who made the music: Louis Armstrong, the fatherless waif whose unrivaled genius helped turn jazz into a soloist's art and influenced every singer, every instrumentalist who came after him; Duke Ellington, the pampered son of middle-class parents who turned a whole orchestra into his personal instrument, wrote nearly two thousand pieces for it, and captured more of American life than any other composer. Bix Beiderbecke, the doomed cornet prodigy who showed white musicians that they too could make an important contribution to the music; Benny Goodman, the immigrants' son who learned the clarinet to help feed his family, but who grew up to teach a whole country how to dance; Billie Holiday, whose distinctive style routinely transformed mediocre music into great art; Charlie Parker, who helped lead a musical revolution, only to destroy himself at thirty-four; and Miles Davis, whose search for fresh ways to sound made him the most influential jazz musician of his generation, and then led him to abandon jazz altogether. Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Tatum, Count Basie, Dave Brubeck, Artie Shaw, and Ella Fitzgerald are all here; so are Sidney Bechet, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, and a host of others. But Jazz is more than mere biography. The history of the music echoes the history of twentieth-century America. Jazz provided the background for the giddy era that F. Scott Fitzgerald called the Jazz Age. The irresistible pulse of big-band swing lifted the spirits and boosted American morale during the Great Depression and World War II. The virtuosic, demanding style called bebop mirrored the stepped-up pace and dislocation that came with peace. During the Cold War era, jazz served as a propaganda weapon--and forged links with the burgeoning counterculture. The story of jazz encompasses the story of American courtship and show business; the epic growth of great cities--New Orleans and Chicago, Kansas City and New York--and the struggle for civil rights and simple justice that continues into the new millennium.

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679765395
ISBN-13
9780679765394
eBay Product ID (ePID)
655940

Product Key Features

Book Title
Jazz : a History of America's Music
Author
Ken Burns, Geoffrey C. Ward
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Reference, United States / General, Genres & Styles / Jazz
Publication Year
2002
Genre
Music, History
Number of Pages
512 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
11in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
9.2in
Item Weight
65.1 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ml3506.W37 2000
Copyright Date
2000
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
00-022604
Dewey Decimal
781.6/5/09
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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by fulda60Feb 01, 2016
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I spend time just about every day reading this book. I am 79 years old and have love American Jazz and find it so interesting reading about all the jazz musicians who I listen to daily from my collection of some 3,000 vinyl records. All Jazz Music fans need to have this book!!
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by bun_uw_itsJun 05, 2006
Jazz by Geoffrey C. Ward (2002)
This book is a good read. I had to get it for a class and I enjoyed it. This is the type of book that I generally would not get in to but to my surprise it is rather interesting. It talks about all the jazz greats and how jazz came about and how it changed throughout the years.

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