Swing to Bop

An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s

Ira Gitler (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

1987
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-505070-7 (ISBN)

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Over a ten-year period, Ira Gitler interviewed more than fifty of the major figures in jazz history to preserve for posterity their recollections of how jazz moved from the big band era in the late 1930s and 1940s into the modern jazz period. The musicians interviewed recreate their own experiences and also evoke the legendary figures of bop who were especially influential in its development but were rarely or never recorded, people like Clyde Hart and Freddie Webster.

Ira Gitler's writing has helped illuminate the jazz scene from 1951, when he wrote the first of countless album and CD annotations. He was the New York editor of Downbeat in the 1960s and continues to contribute to that publication, as well as to JazzTimes and Internet publications. His credits as a producer include recordings and concerts, and he teaches jazz history at the Manhattan School of Music. His books include the highly acclaimed Jazz Masters of the '40s and Swing to Bop, the latter written while he was a Guggenheim fellow. He lives in New York City.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.10.1987
Zusatzinfo	12 pp halftones
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	202 x 133 mm
Gewicht	390 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-505070-3 / 0195050703
ISBN-13	978-0-19-505070-7 / 9780195050707
Zustand	Neuware