The jazz decade saw the emergence of many of the great figures who defined the music for the world: Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Earl Hines, Bix Beiderbecke, Fats Waller, Jack Teagarden, Fletcher Henderson—these giants set the standards for blues singing, big band arrangements, and solo improvisation that are the foundations for jazz. Richard Hadlock has chapters on each, with a discography and descriptions of all the players who made the '20s swing.
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Richard Hadlock has written jazz criticism for Downbeat, the Jazz Review, Jazz Quarterly, Metronome, as well as theNew York Times and San Francisco Examiner. He hosts one of the longest running jazz radio shows, "The Annals of Jazz," on station KCSM in San Mateo, California. He lives in Berkley where he is an active musician.
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Excellent jazz history resource!,
By john m. cipolla (Bowling Green, KY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Jazz Masters Of The 20s (Da Capo Paperback) (Paperback)
This compilation of "shorts," written all by Richard Hadlock, are packed with little gems about the history of jazz. Each chapter, based on a different artist, contains a superb bibliography and discography. The writing style of this book is so smooth that you don't realize that you are experiencing a course in jazz history. You really feel like you are there. Hadlock also bases many of his comments on the recordings that he obviously has spent many hours with. What a shame that this book is out of print (but you can still get it from the used books on the B&N site), and that he hasn't written many more volumes. Hadlock is a former Sidney Bechet student from the 1950s.
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JULIAN "CANNONBALL" ADDERLEY, an outstanding jazz saxophonist yet unborn when Louis Armstrong was beginning to receive international acclaim in the twenties, once asked an older musician friend for the real facts about Armstrong. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
other jazzmen, young jazzmen, many jazzmen, jazz masters, center tone, musical outlook, plunger mute, saxophone section, formal music, collective improvisation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New Orleans, Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Fletcher Henderson, Fats Waller, Benny Goodman, Earl Hines, Bessie Smith, Bud Freeman, Hot Five, King Oliver, Coleman Hawkins, Joe Sullivan, Pee Wee Russell, Red Nichols, Don Redman, Eddie Condon, Dave Tough, Eddie Lang, Jimmy Noone, Paul Whiteman, Ethel Waters, Cotton Pickers, Duke Ellington New!
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JULIAN "CANNONBALL" ADDERLEY, an outstanding jazz saxophonist yet unborn when Louis Armstrong was beginning to receive international acclaim in the twenties, once asked an older musician friend for the real facts about Armstrong. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
other jazzmen, young jazzmen, many jazzmen, jazz masters, center tone, musical outlook, plunger mute, saxophone section, formal music, collective improvisation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New Orleans, Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Fletcher Henderson, Fats Waller, Benny Goodman, Earl Hines, Bessie Smith, Bud Freeman, Hot Five, King Oliver, Coleman Hawkins, Joe Sullivan, Pee Wee Russell, Red Nichols, Don Redman, Eddie Condon, Dave Tough, Eddie Lang, Jimmy Noone, Paul Whiteman, Ethel Waters, Cotton Pickers, Duke Ellington New!
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- Jack Teagarden: The Story Of A Jazz Maverick (Da Capo Paperback) by Jay Smith on 7 pages
- The Jazz Makers: Essays on the Greats of Jazz (A Da Capo paperback) by Nat Shapiro on 7 pages
- Bessie Smith by P. Oliver on 4 pages
- Bix Beiderbecke by B. James on 4 pages
- Really The Blues by Mezz Mezzrow on page 105, page 143, and page 170
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