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Forward Groove - Jazz and the Real World from Louis Armstrong to Gilad Atzmon (Paperback)
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Forward Groove - Jazz and the Real World from Louis Armstrong to Gilad Atzmon (Paperback)
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Loot Price R460
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Forward Groove is a powerfully eclectic survey of recorded jazz
from 1923 to 2008, seeking to show jazz as a commentary on the
social world of some of its finest musicians, from the great
migrations north to Chicago and New York in the twenties and
thirties, the campaigns against lynching and Jim Crow racism; the
Civil Rights protests and the Vietnam anti-war movement of the
fifties and sixties, to the South African anti-apartheid struggles
in the sixties and seventies. The jazz art, insists Searle, is
anything but mere entertainment: it is part of a culture of
resistance, a music striving to build a framework of social and
political justice. Searle shows that a vital dimension of jazz has
always been to create a better, more joyous world, from Louis
Armstrong's 'Coal Cart Blues', the lyrics of Bessie Smith and the
Harlem rhapsodies of Duke Ellington, to Charlie Parker's 'Now's the
Time', the new sounds of John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman and the
commitment of Archie Shepp, and on to the contemporary Palestinian
cry of Gilad Atzmon's alto saxophone.
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