Jazz Masters of the Fifties (The Roots of jazz)
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (959 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0306760312 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 246 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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david proulx said Five Stars. fascinating. Twelve Jazz Masters from the 1950s Jazz critic and author Joe Golberg explains his purpose in writing Jazz Masters of the Fifties as follows: "This book is concerned with players who may be considered as artists. They have all come to prominence since the rise of Charlie Parker; in a sense, this book is a consideration of different uses to which Parker's discoveries have been put. To put it differently, bop, or modern jazz, is the common language of the twelve musicians discussed here, and each man speaks a different dialect. There is, of course, a tradition inv. Good insider's view of genre's greats by leading jazz author toolow66 One of the more revealing jazz tomes I've read, with a good balance of critical acumen and affection for the music with the personal lives and relationships that informed the artists' creativity. The author, the late Joe Goldberg, was a true original who approached his subjects with awareness, awe, and a easy demeanor that led to great insights in his profiles of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Charles Mingus, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Ray Charles and others. If you'v
From the Back Cover Joe Goldberg examines the lives and the music, the crucial events and dominant forces of a decade of great music and conflicting esthetics.
From Mingus to Monk to Blakey, it was an age of giants. Joe Goldberg was there and what his ears heard has become here a lasting music document.. The fifties, though a quiescent period in many ways, was one of the most fervent decades in jazz history. Perhaps never before or since in jazz history have so many wildly idiosyncratic jazz innovators been contemporaries. The landmarks of modern jazz were firmly planted and, it could be argued, nearly all directions the music has taken since then can