John Robert Brown presents an enthusiastic and authoritative account of a century of jazz. Written in a clear and engaging style by a well-known British author and jazz educator, this book offers an affectionate introduction to the people and places that are of worldwide importance in the history of this wonderful music.
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John Robert Brown is a saxophonist, clarinetist and author. His professional playing experience ranges from membership of a 'sixties Hamburg rock group to occasional work with the Hallé Orchestra. He is the author of How to Play Saxophone and La Clarinette Sans Professeur. He contributed a chapter to The Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet, drew pencil portraits for The Cambridge Companion to the Saxophone, writes a Reed Clinic column for the magazine Crescendo International, and contributes to CASS Magazine, the journal of the Clarinet and Saxophone Society of Great Britain.
Currently John Robert Brown is External Relations Consultant for Leeds College of Music, Britain's largest music conservatory. In this capacity he travels worldwide.
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jazz education, jazz history, free jazz, jazz studies, hard bop, jazz orchestra, swing era Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Orleans, New York, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Artie Shaw, Art Tatum, World War, Carnegie Hall, Dizzy Gillespie, Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, Billie Holiday, Down Beat, John Coltrane, Keith Jarrett, Lincoln Center, Stan Getz, West Coast, Bix Beiderbecke, Blue Note, Coleman Hawkins New!
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New Orleans, New York, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Artie Shaw, Art Tatum, World War, Carnegie Hall, Dizzy Gillespie, Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, Billie Holiday, Down Beat, John Coltrane, Keith Jarrett, Lincoln Center, Stan Getz, West Coast, Bix Beiderbecke, Blue Note, Coleman Hawkins New!
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- Beneath the Underdog by Charles Mingus on page 97, page 142, and page 163
- Rhapsody in Blue: Solo Piano (Original) by George Gershwin on page 53, page 62, and page 136
- Bessie Smith by P. Oliver on page 46, and page 82
- on page 111, and page 168
- The Jazz Life (Da Capo Paperback) by Nat Hentoff on page 77
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