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Music, Movies, Meanings, and Markets
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 125.00Music, Movies, Meanings, and Markets focuses on macromarketing-related aspects of film music in general and on the cinemusical role of ambi-diegetic jazz in particular.? The book examines other work on music in motion pictures which has dealt primarily with the traditional distinction between nondiegetic film music (background music that comes from... more...
Pioneers of Jazz
Oxford University Press, USA 2005; US$ 24.95Thanks to the pioneering tours of the Creole Band, jazz began to be heard nationwide on the vaudeville stages of America from 1914 to 1918. This seven-piece band toured the country, exporting for the first time the authentic jazz strains that had developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century. The band's vaudeville routines were deeply... more...
Music Makes Me
University of California Press 2011; US$ 29.95Fred Astaire: one of the great jazz artists of the twentieth century? Astaire is best known for his brilliant dancing in the movie musicals of the 1930s, but in Music Makes Me , Todd Decker argues that Astaire?s work as a dancer and choreographer ?particularly in the realm of tap dancing?made a significant contribution to the art of jazz. Decker examines... more...
Born to Play
Scarecrow Press 2012; US$ 94.99Jazz trombonist Jack Teagarden once referred to Ruby Braff as the ?Ivy League's Louis Armstrong.? That legacy of great trumpet performance and recording is brought to readers in Thomas Hustad?s Born to Play: The Ruby Braff Discography and Directory of Performances . Braff?s uncompromising standards, musical taste, and creative imagination... more...
Bandbox
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 24.95From the author of Henry and Clara , a dazzling, hilarious novel that captures the heart and soul of New York in the Jazz Age. Bandbox is a hugely successful magazine, a glamorous monthly cocktail of 1920s obsessions from the stock market to radio to gangland murder. Edited by the bombastic Jehoshaphat ?Joe? Harris, the magazine has a masthead... more...
Tiger Rag
Random House Publishing Group 2013; US$ 26.00Veronica and A Trip to the Stars returns with a dazzling new novel based on one of the great legends of musical history. New Orleans, 1900. The virtuoso cornet player Charles ?Buddy? Bolden invents jazz, but after a life consumed by tragedy, the groundbreaking sound of his horn vanishes with him. Rumors persist, though, that Bolden recorded... more...
Just for a Thrill
Cooper Square Press 2002; US$ 25.99"Hot Miss Lil" Hardin was the star pianist of King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band when, in 1922, a trumpet player named Louis Armstrong joined the band in Chicago. The educated and polished Hardin was decidedly unimpressed with Armstrong's lack of sophistication, yet she recognized a wealth of untapped potential in the shy young trumpeter. Over the course... more...
Benny Goodman's Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert
Oxford University Press, USA 2012; US$ 17.99On January 16, 1938 Benny Goodman brought his swing orchestra to America's venerated home of European classical music, Carnegie Hall. The resulting concert - widely considered one of the most significant events in American music history - helped to usher jazz and swing music into the American cultural mainstream. This reputation has been perpetuated... more...
Pepper Adams' Joy Road
Scarecrow Press 2012; US$ 74.99Pepper Adams' Joy Road is more than a compendium of sessions and gigs done by the greatest baritone saxophone soloist in history. It's a fascinating overview of Adams' life and times, thanks to colorful interview vignettes, drawn from the author's unpublished conversations with Adams and other musicians. These candid observations from jazz greats... more...
Swing Under the Nazis
Cooper Square Press 2000; US$ 16.99For a brief time in a Europe threatened and then occupied by Nazi Germany, jazz was heard as ubiquitously as rock 'n' roll is today. more...









