| Uniform title | Grands créateurs de jazz. English |
| Series |
Chambers encyclopedic guides
Chambers encyclopedic guides. ^A322290
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| Contents |
Jazz prehistory -- Vocal jazz. From the fields to scat ; The 'entertainers' ; Billie Holiday ; Ella Fitzgerald ; Sarah Vaughan ; Bebop singers ; Ray Charles ; Nat King Cole ; From crooners to virtuosos -- From spiritual to funk. The voice of the Lord and the way of pleasure ; Holy voices ; Mahalia Jackson ; Sister Rosetta Tharpe ; Aretha Franklin ; Soul music ; James Brown ; From funk to rap -- Knights of the keyboard. The elite and versatile piano players ; Scott Joplin ; Jelly Roll Morton ; Stride and boogie woogie ; Thomas "Fats" Waller ; Earl Hines ; Duke Ellington ; Art Tatum ; Thelonious Monk ; Bud Powell ; The bop pianists ; Lennie Tristano ; Eroll Garner ; The art of the trio ; Oscar Peterson ; Bill Evans ; The wizards of the keyboard ; From the organ to the synthesizer ; Martial Solal ; Cecil Taylor ; McCoy Tyner ; Herbie Hancock ; Chick Corea ; Keith Jarrett -- Acrobats on six strings. The jazz guitar ; Django Reinhardt ; Charlie Christian ; From bop to bossa ; Wes Montgomery ; John McLaughlin ; Pat Metheny ; Masters of the electric guitar -- The roots of the blues. Born in the South ; Delta blues ; The south east blues ; The Texas blues ; Memphis and Saint Louis blues ; The Chicago blues ; Bessie Smith ; T-Bone Walker ; B. B. King -- Ebony concerto. The sound of the woodwind ; The Creole style ; The bird-catchers ; Benny Goodman -- The Jazz pavilion. The sounding brass ; King Oliver ; Louis Armstrong ; From the cornet to the trumpet ; Bix Beiderbecke ; Roy Eldridge ; Dizzy Gillespie ; Miles Davis ; From bebop to hard bop ; Chet Baker ; Don Cherry ; Wynton Marsalis -- The advent of reeds. The new sound of the sax ; Sidney Bechet ; Coleman Hawkins ; Altology 1 ; Princes of the sax ; Honkers and shouters ; Lester Young ; Charlie Parker ; Sonny Rollins ; Stan Getz ; Bop-sax ; The cool sax ; The 'tenors' of the baritone ; Altology 2 ; West coast ; John Coltrane ; Archie Shepp ; Ornette Coleman ; Steve Lacy ; The expressionists ; Wayne Shorter ; The sax athletes -- Swing on strings. The adaptation of the violin ; Stephane Grappelli ; The bows of jazz -- Europe under hot tension. From the new world to the old ; From music-halls to jazz clubs ; From the jazz-club to the festival ; The Euro-jazz decades ; Tommy Smith ; Eberhard Weber ; John Surman ; Humphrey Lyttelton ; Stan Tracey ; Jan Garbarek ; Sandy Brown -- The drum kit kids. Laying down the tempo ; From the primitives ; Kenny Clarke ; Art Blakey ; Max Roach ; The hard and the soft ; Elvin Jones ; Tony Williams ; The hard hitters -- Masters of the vibes. The rise of the vibraphone ; Lionel Hampton ; Milt Jackson ; New vibrations -- The pillars of the band. Plucking out the beat ; The first soloists ; The first virtuosos ; Charles Mingus ; Lyric basses ; The 'basic basses' ; The bass unbound ; Electric bass -- Wind in the wings. The traditional trombone ; From marching bands to music stands ; Bebop and 'free bones' ; J. J. Johnson -- Tongue-tip jazzmen. The delicate flute ; Eric Dolphy ; The flights of the flute -- The 'bizarre brigade'. Instruments on the fringe ; Toots Thielemans ; Accordion swing -- Jazz goes electric. Sophistication and synthesizers ; Jimi Hendrix ; Weather report -- Swing machines. Big band music ; Buke Ellington orchestra ; Fletcher Henderson ; The swing era (1935-1945) ; Jimmie Lunceford ; Count Basie ; Bop big bands ; And cool big bands ; The big machines ; Gil Evans ; It's all in the arranging ; Producer by profession ; The 'third stream' ; Carla Bley ; The women in jazz ; Free sound and freedom ; Sun Ra -- Into the melting pot. Fusions of ethnic music ; Return trip to Africa ; Afro-Cubop ; Bossa-nova and the jazz-samba ; Blues with ultramarine reflections ; From rhythm'n'blues to rock'n'roll ; Jazz and 'classical': a reciprocal but equivocal fascination ; Michel Portal -- Jazz and other art forms. The silver screen ; Jazz and fashion ; Jazz in comics: a night life mythology ; Rhythm and the plastic arts ; Jazz and dance: somersaults and tip-tap ; Jazz 'in print' ; Jazz and photo: capturing an ephemeral art. |
| Abstract |
This book surveys the world of jazz, including the performers, the major movements, and the history. |
| General note | Translated from the French by Louis Marcellin-Rice. Adapted for the English edition by Alan Dury, Kenny Mathieson. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| LCCN | 93166872 |
| ISBN | 0550170073 : |
