Research Catalog

Title

Living with jazz / Dan Morgenstern ; a reader edited by Sheldon Meyer.

Author

Morgenstern, Dan.

Publication

New York : Pantheon Books, ©2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Meyer, Sheldon.

Description

xvii, 712 pages; 25 cm

Summary

A collection of essays, biographical profiles, and critical analyses by one of the twentieth century's leading jazz writers includes commentary on the work of jazz entertainers and an assessment of the role of jazz in contemporary culture and its influence on modern music.

Subject

• Jazz > History and criticism
• Jazz
• Geschichte

Genre/Form

• Electronic books.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

Armstrong and Ellington -- Profiles and portraits: James Reese Europe -- Paul Whiteman -- Hot Lips Page -- Eddie Condon -- Earl Hines -- Roy Eldridge "Little Jazz" -- Bunny Berigan -- Lionel Hampton -- Jo Jones -- Milt Hinton -- Vic Dickenson -- Dizzy Gillespie -- Clark Terry -- Billy Taylor -- Miles Davis -- Charles Mingus -- Gene Ammons -- Dinah Washington -- Bill Evans -- Paul Desmond -- Bob Brookmeyer -- Dick Wellstood -- Ornette Coleman -- Charlie Haden -- Freddie Hubbard -- Warren Vaché -- Liner notes: Ma Rainey -- Benny Goodman and Jack Teagarden -- Fats Waller -- Art Tatum -- Coleman Hawins -- Ben Webster -- Jack Teagarden -- Pee Wee Russell -- Bobby Hackett -- Ella Fitzgerald -- Lester Young -- Charlie Parker -- Thelonious Monk -- Sarah Vaughan -- Sonny Stitt -- Dexter Gordon -- Jimmy Rowles -- Stan Getz -- John Coltrane -- Tommy Flanagan -- Martial Solal -- Ruby Braff -- Dick Hyman -- Dave McKenna -- Svend Asmussen -- Joe Lovano -- Record reviews: Bessie Smith -- The Original Dixieland jazz Band -- The Chicagoans (1928-1930) -- Jimmie Lunceford -- Count Basie -- Thad Jones -- Benny Carter -- Dexter Gordon -- Lee Konitz -- Houston Person -- Barry Harris -- Jaki Byard -- Wes Montgomery -- Caught in the act: Erroll Garner -- Bud Powell -- Cecil Taylor -- Harry Edison -- Dizzy Gillespie -- Miles Davis -- Jazz at the Philharmonic -- Phil Woods -- Ira Sullivan -- Joe Turner -- Ornette Coleman -- Mary Lou Williams -- Festivals and events: Newport 1960 -- Birdland -- Lester Leaps in -- Eubie Blake -- Washington -- The White House -- Ann Arbor -- Breakfast with champions -- Woody's 40th -- Trumpet Encounter -- Recording jazz: Recorded jazz -- Discography, the thankless science -- The Commodore story -- The Hot Record Society -- The birth of Blue Note -- Keynote Sessions -- Review of "The essential jazz records, V. 1: ragtime to swing / Max Harrison, Charles Fox, and Eric Thacker -- A new standard for reissues -- The outreach of jazz: Jazz and the arts -- Hot chocolates -- Jazz and dance -- Jazz on film -- Jazz and television -- Controversies -- Not by choice -- Cats and categories -- The Conover controversy -- Integrating jazz -- Titans of the tenor sax -- In defense of commercialism.

ISBN

• 037542072X
• 9780375420726

LCCN

• 2004043432
• 9780375420726

OCLC

• ocm54487411
• 54487411
• SCSB-14662244

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library