Lost Chords: White Musicians and Their Contribution to Jazz, 1915-1945 - Couverture souple

Sudhalter, Richard M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 019514838X ISBN 13 : 9780195148381

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Many jazz fans and critics -- and even some jazz musicians -- contend that white players have contributed little of substance to the music.

Now, with Lost Chords, musician-historian Richard M. Sudhalter challenges this narrow view, with a book that pays definitive tribute to a generation of white jazz players, many unjustly forgotten -- while never scanting the role of the great black pioneers. Eagerly awaited by the jazz community, this monumental volume offers an exhaustively documented, vividly narrated history of white jazz contribution in the vital years 1915 to 1945. Beginning in New Orleans, Sudhalter takes the reader on a fascinating multicultural odyssey through the hot jazz gestation centres of Chicago and NW York, Indiana and Texas, examining such bands such as the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, the Original Memphis Five, and the Casa Loma Orchestra. Readers will find luminous accounts of many key soloists, including Bix Beiderbecke, Benny Goodman, Jack Teagarden, Red Norvo, Bud Freeman, the Dorsey Brothers, Bunny Berigan, Pee Wee Russell, and Artie Shaw, among other. Sudhalter revives the once-great reputations of these and many other major jazzmen, pleading their cases persuasively and eloquently, without ever descending to polemic. Along the way, he gives due credit to Louis Armstrong, Lester Young, Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins, and countless other major black figures. Destined to become a basic reference book on the subject, Lost Chords is a ground-breaking book that should significantly alter perceptions about jazz and its players, reminding readers of this great music's multicultural origins.

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À propos de l'auteur

Richard M. Sudhalter is a highly respected musician and one of today's outstanding trumpet players. A noted critic, broadcaster, and historian, he was co-author of Bix: Man and Legendc, still cited as the definitive Beiderbecke biography.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 019514838X
• ISBN 13: 9780195148381
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 928
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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