Louis Armstrong: Grove Music Essentials

Louis Armstrong: Grove Music Essentials
Author: Gene H. Anderson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 31
Release: 2015-03-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0190268751

Biography of jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong. This ebook is a static version of an article from Grove Music Online, a continuously updated online resource, offering comprehensive coverage of the world’s music written by leading scholars. For more information, visit www.oxfordmusiconline.com.

Jazz: Grove Music Essentials

Jazz: Grove Music Essentials
Author: Mark Tucker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2015-03-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0190268719

An historical survey of jazz. This ebook is a static version of an article from Grove Music Online, a continuously updated online resource, offering comprehensive coverage of the world’s music written by leading scholars. For more information, visit www.oxfordmusiconline.com.

American Musical Theater: Grove Music Essentials

American Musical Theater: Grove Music Essentials
Author: Geoffrey Block
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2015-03-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0190268743

A survey of the history of musical theater in the United States. This ebook is a static version of an article from Grove Music Online, a continuously updated online resource, offering comprehensive coverage of the world’s music written by leading scholars. For more information, visit www.oxfordmusiconline.com.

Blues: Grove Music Essentials

Blues: Grove Music Essentials
Author: Elijah Wald
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2015-03-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0190268735

An historical survey of Blues music. This ebook is a static version of an article from Grove Music Online, a continuously updated online resource, offering comprehensive coverage of the world’s music written by leading scholars. For more information, visit www.oxfordmusiconline.com.

The Essential Jazz Records: Modernism to postmodernism

The Essential Jazz Records: Modernism to postmodernism
Author: Max Harrison
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 924
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780720118223

Following the same format as the acclaimed first volume, this selection of the best 250 modern jazz records and CDs places each in its musical context and reviews it in depth. Additionally, full details of personnel, recording dates, and locations are given. Indexes of album titles, track titles, and musicians are included.

Charlie Parker: Grove Music Essentials

Charlie Parker: Grove Music Essentials
Author: Carl Woideck
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2015-03-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0190268786

Biography of jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker. This ebook is a static version of an article from Grove Music Online, a continuously updated online resource, offering comprehensive coverage of the world’s music written by leading scholars. For more information, visit www.oxfordmusiconline.com.

Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words

Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words
Author: Louis Armstrong
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2001
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780195140460

Louis Armstrong has been the subject of countless biographies and music histories. Yet scant attention has been paid to the remarkable array of writings he left behind. Louis Armstrong: In His Own Words introduces readers to a little-known facet of this master trumpeter, bandleader, and entertainer. Based on extensive research through the Armstrong archives, this important volume includes some of his earliest letters, personal correspondence, autobiographical writings, magazine articles, and essays.

Essential Jazz Records

Essential Jazz Records
Author: Max Harrison
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 609
Release: 1999-12-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0567269698

First published in 1984 and reissued to coincide withthe publication of the second volume, this selection of the 250 best jazz records traces the earliest roots of the music to the beginnings of the modern jazz era. Volume One's focus is on LP collections of 78 rpm originals and nearly every significant musician--both familiar and obscure--of early 20th-century jazz is listed. For each record listed, full details of personnel, recording dates and locations are provided.

The Louis Armstrong Companion

The Louis Armstrong Companion
Author: Joshua Berrett
Publisher: Schirmer Trade Books
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Drawing on the rich resources of the Louis Armstrong Archives, jazz historian Joshua Berrett has compiled a wonderful tribute to the multitalented trumpeter, vocalist, and "Ambassador of Jazz". 20 photos.

Struggling to Define a Nation

Struggling to Define a Nation
Author: Charles Hiroshi Garrett
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2008-10-12
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0520254864

Identifying music as a vital site of cultural debate, this book captures the dynamic, contested nature of musical life in the United States. It examines an array of genres - including art music, jazz, popular song, ragtime, and Hawaiian music - and well-known musicians, such as Charles Ives, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and Irving Berlin.