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Alla pubblicazione della prima edizione, nel 1997, "La Storia del jazz" di Ted Gioia fu accolta dai critici e dagli intenditori di tutto il mondo come il racconto definitivo della grande epopea di questo genere musicale. L'opera che finalmente si presenta oggi al lettore italiano è un'edizione completamente riveduta e aggiornata dall'autore alla luce delle più recenti ricerche e tendenze. Gioia racconta le vicende del jazz come non era mai stato fatto prima, in un libro che tratteggia con grande freschezza narrativa le personalità dei leggendari maestri del passato e dei grandi musicisti del presente, gli stili e le correnti che hanno portato alla ribalta e gli ambienti da cui hanno tratto origine e forza creativa. Vi si troveranno giganti come Jelly Roll Morton e Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington al Cotton Club, il suono tagliente di Charlie Parker, i fuoriclasse del cool jazz come Lester Young, Stan Getz e Gerry Mulligan, l'Età dello Swing e il jazz moderno di Dizzy Gillespie negli anni Quaranta, Miles Davis e il suo concerto del 1955 al Newport Jazz Festival, gli esperimenti di Omette Coleman con l'atonalità, i grandi orizzonti offerti alla fusion da Pat Metheny, le ampie composizioni di Wynton Marsalis e i postmodernisti della scena downtown: i ritratti vivaci di questi e molti altri grandi musicisti sono intrecciati con le raffinate descrizioni delle loro creazioni e tecniche.
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- Pagine: 575
- Data di uscita: 10-10-2013
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A very good read if you've listened to jazz, like it, and already have a bit of background knowledge. If this is going to be your introduction to jazz, then perhaps this isn't the place to start, as there's a fair bit of name dropping and music notation/theory that can be intimidating. It's well wri Leggi tutto
I’m (FINALLY) finished with this. In brief The History Of Jazz (HOJ) is great. I loved it and I can’t recommend it enough. ⚠️WARNING = LONG (POTENTIALLY POINTLESS) GENX WHITE MALE TALKING ABOUT PUNK ROCK IN THE 80’s PERSONAL TANGENT = WARNING ⚠️ It’s (admittedly) completely lame (and Gen-X AF) of me Leggi tutto
A nice overview of America's most important contribution to the arts. The book is a rather comprehensive survey, so few readers will love every period and movement covered. (I personally felt like the Swing Era would never end.) But it's always difficult, in any survey, to allocate attention in a wa Leggi tutto
Phew, what a read! This one is best digested slowly while listening along with the music the author talks about. In fact, it took me a few months of on-and-off reading to get through this, but – wow – has this been worth it. Listening along with the music enhances the experience to an almost magical Leggi tutto
What I expected to learn: jazz's history and evolution over a 100-year period. What I actually learned: exactly that, but more prominently, that being a jazz musician between 1920 and 1970 was perhaps the most dangerous occupation a person could hold. So many fabulous talents came to tragic ends duri Leggi tutto
Many of his critical points are hard to follow for a musicological neophyte like myself, but I nonetheless found this to be an excellent entry point into the world of jazz. It does a good job blending historical storytelling, biographical color about the key figures, and extensive musical analysis.
This extraordinary cultural overview may not be the ideal starting point for those taking their initial steps into the world of jazz. Gioia's aptly titled How To Listen To Jazz serves as a more suitable introduction (and comes highly recommended). However, for enthusiasts of the music or casual list Leggi tutto
I have been reading Gioia's substack for about a year, and picked up this book because I enjoy certain kinds of jazz and wanted the vocabulary to distinguish between different kinds of jazz. It took the summer to get through it, and was well worth it. I listened to a number of recommended performanc Leggi tutto
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