The Swing Era : The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
The History of Jazz
ISBN-10
0195071409
ISBN-13
9780195071405
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 19th, 1992
Print length
944 Pages
Weight
1,384 grams
Dimensions
15.70 x 23.30 x 5.00 cms
Ksh 6,750.00
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Following on from the author's previous work, "Early Jazz", this detailed 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.
Taking up where Early Jazz (OPB, #6.95) leaves off, this second volume of Gunther Schuller''s history of jazz considers the swing era - the age of dance bands and radio shows. Tracing the origins of swing and its effects on American musical and social life, he assesses the distinctive sounds of great bandleaders like Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Woody Herman, instrumentalists such as Art Tatum, Cab Calloway, and Pee Wee Russell, and such vocalists as Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, and Peggy Lee.
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