Such Melodious Racket: The Lost History of Jazz in Canada, 1914-1949

Miller, Mark

ISBN 10: 1551280469 / ISBN 13: 9781551280462

Published by Mercury Press, 1997

About this Item

Stated First Edition. Light wear to edges. Interior clean and unmarked.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Such Melodious Racket: The Lost History of Jazz in Canada, 1914-1949
• Publisher: Mercury Press
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1551280469
• ISBN 13: 9781551280462
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Canadian
  • Music

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Synopsis

Such Melodious Racket traces, for the first time, the introduction, dissemination and early development of jazz in Canada. Beginning with the appearances in vaudeville of a pioneering New Orleans ensemble, the Creole Band, in 1914, and concluding with Oscar Peterson?s celebrated US debut at Carnegie Hall in 1949, the book documents the activities both of the Americans who brought this audacious new music to Canada? the legendary Jelly Roll Morton not least among them? and of the Canadians who soon took jazz for their own. This fascinating study is based on extensive archival research, as well as interviews with more than seventy musicians? many now in their seventies or eighties? and includes numerous rare and wonderful photographs.

About the Author

Mark Miller, a Toronto freelance writer and photographer, has been the jazz critic for the Globe and Mail since 1978. He has also written for Down Beat, Coda, Saturday Night and many other periodicals, and was associate editor of the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada (1992). He is the author of four books on jazz: Jazz in Canada: Fourteen Lives (1982), Boogie, Pete & The Senator: Canadian Musicians in Jazz, the Eighties (1987), Cool Blues: Charlie Parker in Canada, 1953 (1989) (all Nightwood Editions), Such Melodious Racket: The Lost History of Jazz in Canada (1997, Mercury), and The Miller Companion to Jazz in Canada (2001, Mercury).