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Living the Jazz Life : Conversations with Forty Musicians about Their Careers in Jazz by W. Royal Stokes (2002, Trade Paperback)

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No music is as individual as jazz. And no writer is as deft at bringing out what is individual in each jazz artist as W. Royal Stokes. As a reviewer, feature writer, public radio host, and author, Stokes has spent three decades covering the jazz scene.

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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100195152492

ISBN-139780195152494

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Book TitleLiving the Jazz Life : Conversations with Forty Musicians about Their Careers in Jazz

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2002

TopicGenres & Styles / Jazz

IllustratorYes

GenreMusic

AuthorW. Royal Stokes

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Weight14.1 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6 in

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Reviews"A pleasing...collection of generally insightful conversation, spawned by a nicely modest interlocuter."--Kirkus Reviews, "W. Royal Stokes has contributed invaluably to jazz history from the inside. Living the Jazz Life is particularly unique because it focuses on how these diversified players became jazz musicians."--Nat Hentoff "Like a long jam session."--Kirkus Reviews, "W. Royal Stokes has contributed invaluably to jazz history from the inside.Living the Jazz Lifeis particularly unique because it focuses on how these diversified playersbecamejazz musicians."--Nat Hentoff "Like a long jam session."--Kirkus Reviews, "W. Royal Stokes has contributed invaluably to jazz history from the inside. Living the Jazz Life is particularly unique because it focuses on how these diversified players became jazz musicians."--Nat Hentoff"Like a long jam session."--Kirkus Reviews"W. Royal Stokes has contributed invaluably to jazz history from the inside. Living the Jazz Life is particularly unique because it focuses on how these diversified players became jazz musicians."--Nat Hentoff"A pleasing...collection of generally insightful conversation, spawned by a nicely modest interlocuter."--Kirkus Reviews"Like a long jam session."--Kirkus Reviews, "W. Royal Stokes has contributed invaluably to jazz history from the inside. Living the Jazz Life is particularly unique because it focuses on how these diversified players became jazz musicians."--Nat Hentoff, "W. Royal Stokes has contributed invaluably to jazz history from theinside. Living the Jazz Life is particularly unique because it focuses on howthese diversified players became jazz musicians."--Nat Hentoff, "W. Royal Stokes has contributed invaluably to jazz history from the inside. Living the Jazz Life is particularly unique because it focuses on how these diversified players became jazz musicians."--Nat Hentoff"Like a long jam session."--Kirkus Reviews

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal781.65/092/2

SynopsisW. Royal Stokes' The Jazz Scene (OUP-USA 1991) was highly praised as an oral history of jazz, which, said famous jazz writer Stanley Dance, "put together a kind of mosaic that effectively illustrated the whole subject in a novel and informative way."His new collection, Jazz Profiles, follows the same successful model, but deals with jazz oral history in some significantly different ways. Stokes' interviews strongly focus on how the different musicians got involved with jazz when young and how their careers developed from an early age. This presents a wonderful range of perspectives on what makes jazz musicians. In the book, too, a number of prominent women musicians discuss their jazz careers and describe the obstacles they had to overcome and the problems of being a woman in the jazz world. They include three prominent jazz singers: DeeDee Bridgwater, Shirley Howe, and Diane Kral. Women instrumentalists - especially those performing on such "suspect" jazz instruments as harp (Dorothy Ashley) and violin (Regina Carter) - have had an even more difficult career path.The interviews in the book break down into a series of jazz-related subjects - jazz families, early jazz pioneers, saxophonists and pianists and string players, singers, jazz composers, jazz musicians beyond the US, blues players, and comics - the last being discussions with Steve Adler and Bill Cosby about their intense involvement with jazz.In their accounts of their careers, these musicians provide great insight not only into their own careers but into the nature of jazz itself and how it has attracted and sustained its players. The subjects cover the entire history of jazz - from its early days, in the 1920s and before, to the present, for Stokes is particularly good at eliciting stories from promising young musicians who are just building their careers now. But the book presents a broad perspective of jazz in all its aspects and of the talented people who have made it successful., These are a series of perceptive interviews of jazz figures, vocalists, and blues players, with a strong emphasis on the musicians' musical background and upbringing as well as on the difficulties that women have had in pursuing musical careers. Of Stokes' first book, The Jazz Scene, Choice declared that "these important first-person accounts bring a special sense of reality to the subject"> Jazz Profiles provides another superb collection of such interviews., No music is as individual as jazz. And no writer is as deft at bringing out what is individual in each jazz artist as W. Royal Stokes. As a reviewer, feature writer, public radio host, and author, Stokes has spent three decades covering the jazz scene. Now he draws on that rich store of knowledge and friendship to introduce us to the jazz life. In some forty interviews with saxophonists, pianists, singers, composers, and string, brass, and rhythm players, Stokes illuminates the lives of the artists and the sheer pleasure of the sounds they create. Stokes paints a vivid portrait of jazz musicians--bringing to life their influences, their careers, and their art. We hear firsthand how they became interested in jazz and how they emerged onto the jazz scene. Stokes ranges across the globe in his interviews, introducing us to vaudeville stars, blues musicians, and a dozen women instrumentalists--like the acclaimed violinist Regina Carter--from the many who now shine on a stage where they were once limited to vocals alone. From legendary veterans Jackie McLean and Louie Bellson to such rising stars as Diana Krall, Cyrus Chestnut, and Ingrid Jensen, Stokes gathers together the brightest lights in the jazz firmament, capturing not only the life of the musician, but how the musician gives life to jazz.

LC Classification NumberML3506.S87 2002