A Century of Jazz: From Blues to Bop, from Swing to Hip-hop - Hardcover

Carr, Roy

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9780600588078: A Century of Jazz: From Blues to Bop, from Swing to Hip-hop

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ISBN 10: 0600588076 ISBN 13: 9780600588078

Publisher: Hamlyn, 1997

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A century of jazz is celebrated in this chronicle-style account, which details important recordings, seminal concerts, formations of bands, births and deaths. There is a deliberate reference to popular music generally, from Crosby, Glen Miller and Sinatra, to George Benson, fusion and funk.

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About the Author:

Leading a team of major jazz writers, Roy Carr, award-winning New York Times best-selling author, broadcaster, and record producer, is executive editor for IPC Magazine's music titles ( Melody Maker, New Musical Express, and Vox ). Among the many books published under his name is the co-authored seminal style bible The Hip: Hipsters, Jazz & the Beat Generation, and he also compiled/annotated numerous albums for Blue Note, Chess, Pacific Jazz, Riverside, Savoy, and other labels.

Review:

Carr is an energetic and knowledgeable writer, and the book is peppered with lingo and little-known facts. Tracing the music's history from post-Civil War New Orleans to postmodern acid jazz, Carr provides an authoritative account of the music, a rare thing in such a lavishly illustrated volume. Carr is particularly good on topics that are too often ignored by jazz writers, such as the importance of European jazz and the development of jazz-rock fusion in the 1970s. Purists may balk at the space Carr devotes to some of these more ephemeral subjects, but they are undeniably part of the music's bountiful tradition and have grown even more important to the story since hip-hop "rediscovered" jazz in the '90s.... I would be surprised if even the most devoted students of the music had seen many of these photos before; Carr and his team have done a first-rate job in tracking down images that are as absorbing as the writing itself. -- The Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, Marc Carnegie

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