Outcats : jazz composers, instrumentalists, and singers / Francis Davis.
| Author/creator | Davis, Francis, 1946- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Oxford University Press, ©1990. |
| Description | x, 261 pages ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Just a mood -- Composers. Surviving Ellington (Duke and Mercer Ellington) -- Ellington's decade -- Hottentot potentate (Sun Ra) -- The individualism of Gil Evans -- The mystery of Herbie Nichols -- The cantos of Cecil Taylor -- The home of the world (Abdullah Ibrahim and Sathima Bea Benjamin) -- A school of one (Errol Parker) -- Positively charged (Henry Threadgill) -- Blowing in from Chicago (Edward Wilkerson, Jr.) -- Composition after the fact (John Zorn, Butch Morris) -- Instrumentalists. Sunday best (Doc Cheatham) -- They can't take that away (Lester Young) -- Talking with Miles (Miles Davis) -- West Coast ghost (Frank Morgan) -- An American in Paris (Steve Lacy) -- The Philadelphia story (Odean Pope) -- Streams of consciousness (Ran Blake) -- Circles, whirls, and eights (Borah Bergman) -- Outchicks (Jane Ira Bloom, Michele Rosewoman) -- Eight singers and a comic. The man who danced with Billie Holiday -- Ella (Ella Fitzgerald) -- The man and his mishegoss (Frank Sinatra) -- Too late blues (Bobby Darin) -- Black like him (Bobby Short) -- Sunshine, too -- She's Susannah McCorkle -- Almost wild about Harry (Harry Connick, Jr.) -- Onward (Mort Sahl) -- Combos, movements, issues, and isolated events. Postmodernism, 1924 (Rhapsody in Blue) -- Smithsonian world (American popular song and The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz) -- Jazz rep (The American Jazz Orchestra, Benny Carter, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Illinois Jacquet) -- At the movies ('Round Midnight, Bird, Let's Get Lost) -- Avant-garde comrades (The Ganelin Trio) -- Band of outsiders (The Microscopic Septet) -- Bronx cheer (Steve Coleman) -- Born out of time (Wynton Marsalis and others). |
| Abstract | A new series of critical essays, artist profiles and pieces that skillfully combine both modes. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| LCCN | 89023031 |
| ISBN | 019505587X : |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Music Stacks | ML385.D29 1990 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |