The Swing Era : The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
The History of Jazz
ISBN-10
019504312X
ISBN-13
9780195043129
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 13th, 1989
Print length
944 Pages
Weight
1,492 grams
Dimensions
16.40 x 24.80 x 4.90 cms
Ksh 15,350.00
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The second volume of Schuller's comprehensive history of jazz covers the crucial era which saw the rise of big band swing and the transition to the more avant-garde bop style which revolutionized jazz in the 1940s.
This second volume of Gunther Schuller''s comprehensive history of jazz covers the period from the 1930s to the late 1940s, decades which saw the transition from big band swing to the virtuoso bop style. The first half of the book concentrates on the band leaders, singers, and composers who dominated the popular music of their day: the jazz aristocracy of Ellington, Basie, and Goodman, as well as major soloists such as Billie Holliday, Art Tatum, Coleman Hawkins, and Lester Young.The second half focuses on the origins and early development of bop, the major jazz form of the 1940s, and its two great exponents, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.
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