The Swing Era : The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945

Name: The Swing Era
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780195043129
Price: 16400 KES
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ISBN: 9780195043129

by Gunther Schuller

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Format Hardback

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

Product Classification: Jazz Blues

KSh 16,400.00

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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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