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Sinossi
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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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
This book helped me consolidate my understanding of the development of jazz. The book strikes a good balance between breadth and depth. Keep your iPod handy while reading.
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
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
I didn't get very far. He tried to approach the issue of race in jazz with sensitivity, but he lost me early when he used "African" and "primitive" as synonyms.
Read for school
I decided to kick off the new year (and new decade, I guess!) by reading a new genre of music writing. I am a seasoned jazz listener, since I first started, freshman year of college, with Charlie Parker: it was something to write history papers to. Something I could "trust and ignore." I became a ja Leggi tutto
Particularly interesting for the more in-depth pre-bebop chapters (i.e. roughly the first half of the book).
Reading this book took me about 2 years because of the sheer amount of content and insight it contains. Excellent and essential piece chronicling jazz history that leaves you with plenty of music to listen to afterwards.
An amazing thorough historical account of America's most important art form. It is lovingly written and meticulously researched. My main takeaway from the book was how devastating drugs were on the jazz artists all throughout the 20th century and how it really impacted the individual movements in ja Leggi tutto
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