Jazz and its colorful, expansive history resonate in this unique
collection of 60 essays specially-commissioned from today's top
jazz performers, writers, and scholars. Contributors include such
jazz insiders as Bill Crow, Samuel A. Floyd Jr., Ted Gioia, Gene
Lees, Dan Morgenstern, Gunther Schuller, Richard M. Sudhalter, and
Patricia Willard. Both a reference book and an engaging read, the
Companion surveys the evolution of jazz from its roots in Africa
and Europe until the present. Along the way, each distinctive style
and period is profiled by an expert in the field. Whether your
preference is ragtime, the blues, bebop, or fusion, you will find
the chief characteristics and memorable performances illuminated
here with a thoroughness found in no other single-volume jazz
reference.
The Oxford Companion to Jazz features individual biographies of the
most memorable characters of this relatively young art form. Sidney
Bechet, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Bix
Beiderbecke, Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins, Lester
Young, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Charles
Mingus, John Coltrane, and the divas of jazz song--Ella Fitzgerald,
Billie Holiday, and Sarah Vaughan--come to life in thoughtful
considerations of their influences, often turbulent personal lives,
and signature styles. In addition, this book looks at the impact of
jazz on American culture-in literature, film, television, and
dance-and explores the essential instruments of jazz and their most
memorable players.
The Oxford Companion to Jazz will provide a quick reference source
as well as a dynamic and broad overview for all lovers of jazz,
from novices to aficionados.
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