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Creating Jazz Counterpoint - New Orleans, Barbershop Harmony, and the Blues (Paperback)
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Creating Jazz Counterpoint - New Orleans, Barbershop Harmony, and the Blues (Paperback)
Series: American Made Music Series
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The book Jazzmen (1939) claimed New Orleans as the birthplace of
jazz and introduced the legend of Buddy Bolden as the ""First Man
of Jazz."" Much of the information that the book relied on came
from a highly controversial source: Bunk Johnson. He claimed to
have played with Bolden and that together they had pioneered jazz.
Johnson made many recordings talking about and playing the music of
the Bolden era. These recordings have been treated with skepticism
because of doubts about Johnson's credibility. Using oral
histories, the Jazzmen interview notes, and unpublished archive
material, this book confirms that Bunk Johnson did play with
Bolden. This confirmation, in turn, has profound implications for
Johnson's recorded legacy in describing the music of the early
years of New Orleans jazz. New Orleans jazz was different from
ragtime in a number of ways. It was a music that was collectively
improvised, and it carried a new tonality--the tonality of the
blues. How early jazz musicians improvised together and how the
blues became a part of jazz has until now been a mystery. Part of
the reason New Orleans jazz developed as it did is that all the
prominent jazz pioneers, including Buddy Bolden, Bunk Johnson,
Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Johnny Dodds, and Kid Ory, sang in
barbershop (or barroom) quartets. This book describes in both
historical and musical terms how the practices of quartet singing
were converted to the instruments of a jazz band, and how this, in
turn, produced collectively improvised, blues-inflected jazz, that
unique sound of New Orleans.
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