Award winning veteran comic writer and artist Gary Scott Beatty's jazz piano man Dean Fontessa returns in five standalone stories on a central theme that come together with a twist -- like a masterful, cool jazz solo! Beatty's illustration style, inspired by jazz album cover design, drops readers into the late night music clubs of 1957. A fantastic, innovative and unique blend of art and text to depict the rhythm of the times!
... Long Has This Been Going On? SRB Bruce Forman, Forman On The Job, Kamei, 1992. Hub-Tones Freddie Hubbard, Hub-Tones, Blue Note, 1962. 43 20 31 51. •I Can't Get Started Sonny Rollins, A NightAt The.
In the introduction of Got Everything But You and Spencer Williams's Tishomingo Blues , Ellington experiments with " modern " harmonies . Through the highly popular piano playing of Zez Confrey , Rube Bloom , and others , it had become ...
A cultural study of the meaning of jazz for America in the 1920s. Jazz made a tremendous impact on America at that time, becoming a subject of controversy as well as a major social influence.
They have an obligation to tell truth to power and provide views of alternative realities. These essays explore many dimensions of the jazz life and its perspectives on cultural realities.
How Performance Spaces Shape Jazz History Kimberly Hannon Teal ... Ken Prouty, Knowing Jazz: Community, Pedagogy, and Canon in the Information Age (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2012), 47. 2. Paul Berliner, Thinking in Jazz: ...
A panoramic history of the genre brings to life the diverse places in which jazz evolved, traces the origins of its various styles, and offers commentary on the music itself.
Examines the evolution of jazz from its beginnings in the regional Black musics of New Orleans, Chicago, New York, and other areas
Looks at the history of the 1920s, describes the jazz bands and performers who helped shape it, and discusses the important musical developments of the period.
At the close of the Second World War, waves of African American musicians migrated to Paris, eager to thrive in its reinvigorated jazz scene. Jazz Diasporas challenges the notion that Paris was a color-blind paradise for African Americans.
... Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1968), 4. Indianapolis Freeman, Oct. 28, 1916, p. 5. 20. William M. Tuttle, Jr., Race Riot; Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919 (New York: Atheneum, ...