Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music 1955-1965
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (570 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195085566 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Lively prose and perceptive characterization of musicians and their performances make the book a welcome resource for jazz fans and music historians. His encyclopedic overview covers the accomplishments of the jazz "greats" of the period, from the lyrical compositions of Benny Golson and Gigi Gryce, the soul jazz of saxophonist Stanley Turrentine and the "bad" trumpet of Lee Morgan to the heterodox talents of Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis and John Coltrane. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly Hard bop, the mid-1950s resurgence of bebop, was an eclectic movement that encompassed many diverse styles o
Informative and Insightful Text Derived from several primary sources, including personal interviews. Includes Footnotes, Discography, and Index, as well as Table of Contents. A simple lay of the land, not a dry chronological accounting of events. A pleasure to read and reread as I am attaining and retaining information on this specific genre of music to enable Paul Brusger to keep these rhythms rol. matthew thompson said Five Stars. Excellent book!. "Five Stars" according to Facebook-Twitter. Awesome read
It's nineteen fifty-something, in a dark, cramped, smoke-filled room. In this, the first thorough study of the subject, jazz expert and enthusiast David H. Everyone's wearing black. Rosenthal vividly examines the roots, traditions, explorations and permutations, personalities and recordings of a climactic period in jazz history. Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, Charles Mingus's Mingus Ah Um, Thelonious Monk's Brilliant Corners, Horace Silver's Further Explorations--Rosenthal gives a perceptive cut-by-cut analysis of these and other jazz masterpieces, supplying an essential discography as well. Fortunately, records were there to catch it all. And on-stage a tenor is blowing his heart out, a searching, jagged saxophone journey played out against a moody, walking bass and the swish of a drummer's brushes. Ha