Author:
Giddins, Gary, author.
ImprintOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Imprint1998
Descriptionxi, 690 pages : music ; 24 cm
Note:Includes indexes.
Note:Part one. Precursors -- Bert Williams/Al Jolson (Native wits) -- Hank Jones/Charlie Haden (Come Sunday) -- Louis Armstrong/Mills Brothers (Signifying) -- W. C. Handy (Birth of the Blues) -- Irving Berlin (Ragging the Alley) -- Spencer Williams (The Bard of Basin Street) -- Ethel Waters (The mother of us all) -- Bunk Johnson/George Lewis (Pithcanthropus jazzmen) -- Part two. A new music -- Jelly Roll Morton (Red hot dandy) -- King Oliver (Working man blues) -- Louis Armstrong (The once and future king) -- Duke Ellingtion (Part 1: The poker game) -- Coleman Hawkins (Patriach) -- Pee Wee Russell (Seer) -- Chick Webb (King of the Savoy) -- Fats Waller (Comedy tonight) -- Part three. A popular music -- Benny Goodman (The mirror of swing) -- Jimmie Lunceford (For listeners, too) -- Count Basie/Lester Young (Westward Ho! and back) -- Jimmy Rushing (Swinging the Blues) -- Roy Eldridge (Jazz) -- Ella Fitzgerald (Joy) -- Artie Shaw (Cinderella's last stand) -- Budd Johnson (Chameleon) -- Bobby Hackett (Muzak man) -- Frank Sinatra (The ultimate in theater) -- Part four. A modern music -- Duke Ellingtion (Part 2: The enlightment) -- Billy Strayhorn (Passion flower) -- Spike Jones (Chasin' the birdaphone) -- Charlie Parker (Flying home) -- Dizzy Gillispie (The coup and after) -- Sarah Vaughan (Divine) -- Thelonious Monk (Rhythm-a-ning) -- Bud Powell (Strictly confidential) -- Chico O'Farrill (North of the border) -- Stan Kenton (Big) -- Dexter Gordon (Resurgence) -- Part five. A mainstream music -- Miles Davis (Kinds of Blues) -- Gerry Mulligan (Beyond cool) -- Art Blakey (Jazz messenger) -- Billie Holiday (Lady of pain) -- Modern Jazz Quartet (The first forty years) -- Nat King Cole (The comeback king) -- Stan Getz (Seasons) -- Sonny Rollins (The muse is heard) -- Dinah Washington (The Queen) -- Rahsaan Roland Kirk (One-man band) -- Part six. An alternative music -- Art Tatum (Sui Generis) -- Charles Mingus (Bigger than death) -- Cecil Taylor (Outer curve) -- Ornette Coleman (This is our music) -- John Coltrane (Metamorphosis) -- Duke Ellington (Part 3: At the pulpit) -- Muhal Richard Abrams (Meet this composer) -- Roscoe Mitchell/ Marty Ehrlich (The audience) -- Henry Threadgill (The big top) -- Charles Gayle/David S. Ware/Matthew Shipp (Sweet agony) -- Part seven. A struggling music -- Hannibal Peterson (Out of Africa) -- Jimmy Rowles (The late hurrah) -- John Carter (American echoes) -- Dee Dee Bridgewater (Back home again) -- Julius Hemphill (Gotham's minstrel) -- Don Pullen (Last connections) -- Gary Bartz (The middle passage) -- David Murray (Profuse) -- Dave Burrell (Brotherly love) -- Abbey Lincoln (Strong wind blowing) -- Part eight. A traditional music -- Randy Weston (Afrobeats) -- Rosemary Clooney (Going her way) -- Joe Henderson (Tributes) -- Tommy Flanagan (Standards and practices) -- Joe Lovano (The long apprenticeship) -- Geri Allen/Jacky Terrasson (The parameters of hip) -- Joshua Redman (Tenor of the times) -- Stephen Scott (Taking time) -- James Carter (All of the above) -- Louis Armstrong/Nicholas Payton (Interpreted) -- Cassandra Wilson (A different songbook) -- Don Byron (Musically correct).
