On Jazz: A Personal Journey

ISBN-13: 9781108834230 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Alyn Shipton

Opis

A vivid and fascinating up-close encounter with jazz, brim-full of anecdote and personal reminiscence, by an internationally known broadcaster and writer.

Recenzje

'This is the back story of the gods who create the magic. I loved it.' Sonny Rollins

Spis treści

1. Getting started; 2. New Orleans 1976; 3. Before Katrina; 4. Women of new Orleans; 5. Finding fats; 6. Swing era legends; 7. Louis Armstrong; 8. Count Basie; 9. Duke Ellington; 10. Dizzy and bird; 11. The modern jazz quartet; 12. The 'Swing Drummer'; 13. Jackie McLean and Sonny Rollins; 14. Oscar Peterson and his trios; 15. The dawn of fusion; 16. A taste of freedom; 17. Looking back and looking forward; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Shipton, AlynAlyn Shipton is a writer, publisher, broadcaster and jazz double bassist. He has broadcast about jazz since 1989, and currently hosts BBC Radio 3's long-running and much loved programme Jazz Record Requests. His biographies of Dizzy Gillespie (1999) and singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson (2013) both won Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Awards for Excellence; and Nilsson also gained an American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thompson Award. His New History of Jazz (2001) was the Jazz Journalists' Association (JJA) book of the year and named 'the most outstanding single-volume history of jazz' by the Jazz Institute of Chicago. His most recent work, The Art of Jazz: A Visual History (2020), was described as 'indispensible' by Publishers Weekly. He leads the Buck Clayton Legacy Band, and is a research fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in London.