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Jazz on record : the first sixty years
- Title
- Jazz on record : the first sixty years / by Scott Yanow.
- Author
- Yanow, Scott
- Publication
- San Francisco, CA : Backbeat Books ; Berkeley, CA : Distributed to the book trade in the U.S. and Canada by Publishers Group West ; Milwaukee, WI : Distributed to the music trade in the U.S. and Canada by Hal Leonard Pub., c2003.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Description
- 858 p.; 26 cm.
- Summary
- "In this comprehensive volume, Scott Yanow traces the history of jazz through its recordings. Most live performances from this rich 60-year period are lost forever, but jazz fans can experience a rich legacy of recorded work. Sorting through and colorfully commenting on thousands of CDs and LPs, Yanow points out which performances are the most representative of the great 20th-century artists and which recordings are essential of jazz fans' collections. Along the way he takes readers on a journey through the golden ages of jazz, covering styles such as New Orleans jazz, swing, bebop, cool jazz, Dixieland, hard bop, soul jazz, the avant-garde, and fusion - and showing how these forms diverge, develop, and continue to flourish."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Note
- Includes bibliographic references (p. [822]) and index.
- Contents
- 1. 1895-1920: The Lost Beginnings -- 2. 1921-1925: Jazz Sweeps the Nation -- 3. 1926-1932: From Boom to Bust -- 4. 1933-1938: Swing's the Thing -- 5. 1939-1944: The War Years -- 6. 1945-1949: Bebop Spoken Here -- 7. 1950-1955: West Coast vs. East Coast -- 8. 1956-1960: A Time of Giants -- 9. 1961-1967: The Race Toward Freedom -- 10. 1968-1976: Fusion and Beyond.
- ISBN
- 0879307552 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2003062780
- OCLC
- ocm52963010
- SCSB-4842066
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries