The Kingdom of Swing
Author | : Benny Goodman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Big band music |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Benny Goodman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Big band music |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ross Firestone |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Band musicians |
ISBN | : 9780393311686 |
Before Elvis and rock & roll, Benny Goodman--the King of Swing--ruled American popular music. In this intimate biography, Firestone illuminates Goodman's enormous impact on American music and culture, offering a mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes look at this complicated, difficult jazz superstar. Photos.
Author | : Jeffrey Magee |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2005-01-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0195358147 |
If Benny Goodman was the "King of Swing," then Fletcher Henderson was the power behind the throne. Now Jeffrey Magee offers a fascinating account of Henderson's musical career, throwing new light on the emergence of modern jazz and the world that created it. Drawing on an unprecedented combination of sources, including sound recordings and hundreds of scores that have been available only since Goodman's death, Magee illuminates Henderson's musical output, from his early work as a New York bandleader, to his pivotal role in building the Kingdom of Swing. He shows how Henderson, standing at the forefront of the New York jazz scene during the 1920s and '30s, assembled the era's best musicians, simultaneously preserving jazz's distinctiveness and performing popular dance music that reached a wide audience. Magee reveals how, in Henderson's largely segregated musical world, black and white musicians worked together to establish jazz, how Henderson's style rose out of collaborations with many key players, how these players deftly combined improvised and written music, and how their work negotiated artistic and commercial impulses. Whether placing Henderson's life in the context of the Harlem Renaissance or describing how the savvy use of network radio made the Henderson-Goodman style a national standard, Jeffrey Magee brings to life a monumental musician who helped to shape an era. "An invaluable survey of Henderson's life and music." --Don Heckman, Los Angeles Times "Magee has written an important book, illuminating an era too often reduced to its most familiar names. Goodman might have been the King of Swing, but Henderson here emerges as that kingdom's chief architect." --Boston Globe "Excellent.... Jazz fans have waited 30 years for a trained musicologist...to evaluate Henderson's strengths and weaknesses and attempt to place him in the history of American music." --Will Friedwald, New York Sun
Author | : Benny Goodman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1944 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Degen Pener |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2009-06-27 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0316076678 |
Ten years ago a revival of swing took place, originating in San Francisco, snowballing into today's international resurgence. This book presents the complete history of swing music and dancing, then and now.
Author | : Rupert Holmes |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307431894 |
Two-time Edgar Award winner Rupert Holmes–author of the critically acclaimed Where the Truth Lies and creator of the Tony Award—winning musical whodunit The Mystery of Edwin Drood–now fuses gripping suspense and evocative music in an innovative novel of intrigue set in 1940, during the very heart of the Big Band era. Jazz saxophonist and arranger Ray Sherwood, touring with the Jack Donovan Orchestra, is haunted by personal tragedy. But when a beautiful and talented Berkeley student named Gail Prentice seeks his help in orchestrating a highly original composition called Swing Around the Sun, which is slated to premiere at the Golden Gate Exposition on the newly created Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay, Ray finds himself powerfully drawn to the beguiling coed. Within moments of first setting eyes on her, Ray also witnesses a horrifying sight: a young woman plunging to her death from the island’s emblematic Tower of the Sun. As the captivated Ray learns more about Gail and her unusual family, he finds himself trapped in a tightening coil of spiraling secrets– some personally devastating, all dangerous and deadly– in which from moment to moment nothing is certain, including Gail’s intentions toward him and her connection to the dead woman who made such a grisly impact upon the stunning island. As events speed toward a shocking climax, Ray must use all his physical daring and improvisational skills to unlock an ominous puzzle whose sinister implications stretch far beyond anything he could imagine.
Author | : James Lincoln Collier |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1991-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780195067767 |
Traces the rags-to-riches career of the clarinetist and his role in popularizing jazz music in the post-Depression 1930s, assesses his elusive personality, and reevaluates dozens of his landmark recordings
Author | : Benny Goodman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Jazz |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Benny Goodman |
Publisher | : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1985-06 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780793528028 |
(Instrumental Folio). 6 transcribed solos, including: Airmail Special * Flying Home * Mission To Moscow * Includes pull-out piano accompaniment section.
Author | : Duncan McLean |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780393317565 |
High Fidelity meets Blue Highways in this gloriously offbeat quest for the true roots of Texas Swing.