This thesis explores how playing jazz can be taught to children and young people in a field that can hide its own basis of achievement. How to play jazz, how achievement is measured …
Behind the iconic jazz orchestras, vocalists, and stage productions of the Swing Era lay the talents of popular music's unsung heroes: the arrangers. John Wriggle takes you behind the …
The guitarist and composer Pat Metheny ranks among the most popular and innovative jazz musicians of all time. In Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975-1984, Mervyn Cooke offers the …
In early 2005, an engineer at the Library of Congress accidentally discovered, in an unmarked box, the recording of Thelonious Monk's and John Coltrane's performance at a …
„S kapelou Czechoslovak Dixieland Band uspořádal řadu zájezdů apoštol dixielandu, Emanuel Uggé. Znovu se tedy ozývaly hlasité synkopy v zapadlých městečkách …
B Givan - Current Musicology, 2014 - journals.library.columbia.edu
Jazz manouche, a contemporary musical genre originally inspired by the European Romani guitarist Django Reinhardt (1910–53), provides a fruitful case study for exploring the …
“An apostle of Dixieland, Emanuel Uggé, took the Czechoslovak Dixieland on the road. Once again, obscure little towns in the northeast of Bohemia resounded with loud …
N Lemish - Jazz Perspectives, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
In this essay I consider transcultural iterations of jazz as practiced by Israeli jazz musicians and their implications for a post-nationalist world. By considering the performers discussed …
M Mendez - Journal of the American Musicological Society, 2024 - online.ucpress.edu
This article examines the improvisative activities of the gay Black composer-vocalist Julius Eastman (1940–90), whose life and works have lent themselves in recent years to efforts to …