Riding on a blue note : jazz and American pop / Gary Giddins.
| Author/creator | Giddins, Gary |
| Other author | Larkin, Philip former owner. |
| Other author | Wright, Stuart, 1948- former owner. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Oxford University, 1981. |
| Description | xv, 313 pages ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 1. Singers. The mother of us all ; Bing for the millions ; Placing the dominoes ; Just how much did Elvis learn from Otis Blackwell? ; Bobby Blue Bland meets the white folks ; Divine and mortal ; Betty Carter sings like a woman ; The once and future Sinatra -- 2. Instrumentalists. The best trombone player in the world ; A penchant for mayhem ; The institutionalization of Count Basie ; Donald Lambert strides into view ; Professor Longhair Woogies ; The Charlie Parker reissue parade ; There's no one like Sonny Rollins ; Float like Jelly Roll, sting like the blues -- 3. Composers and movements. Treemonisha from on high breaks loose ; Doin' what comes naturally ; Ellingtonia (At the pulpit ; In search of Black, Brown and Beige) ; Three or four shades of Mingus ; Ornette Coleman, continued (Magnum opus ; Dancing the blues ; Something old, something new ; Jazz-funk after prime time) ; The AACM in New York ; Breuker battles the bourgeoisie -- 4. Adventures in the jazz trade. It's dizzy again ; Adventures of the Red Arrow ; Long Tall Dexter bites the apple ; The whiteness of the wail ; Jazz musicians, consider Wes Montgomery ; Bensonality ; The avant-gardist who came in from the cold: 1. Allow the love to take shape ; 2. Search for a common language ; 3. An entangling alliance. |
| Abstract | Collects the best of Giddins' articles for the Village Voice written since 1973. Thirty articles cover singers such as Bing Crosby, Sarah Vaughan, and Ethel Waters; instrumentalists including Count Basie and Charlie Parker; such composers as Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington, and Sonny Rollins; and the jazz trade in general. |
| Local note | Initialed on front fly-leaf "PAL [Philip A. Larkin]." Includes dust jacket. Stuart Wright Book Collection #179.24. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Bibliography note | Discography: pages 297-300. |
| Acquisitions source | Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2012 |
| LCCN | 80021238 |
| ISBN | 019502835X : |
| ISBN | 9780195028355 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | Stuart Wright Collection | ML3507 .G52 | ✔ Available | Request Material |
| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML3507 .G52 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |