Kansas City Jazz

A Little Evil Will Do You Good

Con Chapman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

370 Seiten

2023
Equinox Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80050-282-6 (ISBN)

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The brand of jazz that developed in the Kansas City area in the period from the late 1920s to the late 1930s is recognised as both a distinct stylistic variation within the larger genre and a transitional stage between earlier forms of African-American music, such as ragtime and blues, and later, more modern forms, up to and including bebop. Kansas City’s brand of jazz has been described as “the most straightforward and direct style which has been developed outside New Orleans,” by Hughues Panassié and Madeleine Gautier in their Dictionary of Jazz. Kansas City jazz has inspired the creation of a museum and has been the subject of a feature-length film, Robert Altman’s 1996 “Kansas City,” and even a sentimental rock song, “Eternal Kansas City” by Van Morrison.

The first comprehensive work on the subject in over 15 years, this book draws on new research to delve deeper into music of the American Midwest that evolved into Kansas City jazz, and includes profiles of individual musicians who developed very different styles within or beyond the framework of the sub-genre. Kansas City Jazz focuses on the broader themes and the stories of the major personalities whose individual talents came together to create the larger whole of Kansas City’s distinctive brand of jazz.

Con Chapman has written about jazz since the mid-1970s and his work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, The Atlantic, The Christian Science Monitor, Barron's and Reason among other publications. He is the author of Rabbit's Blues: The Life and Music of Jonny Hodges (Oxford University Press, 2019) which won the 2019 Book of the Year award from the Hot Club de France and a 2020 Certificate of Merit for Best Historical Research from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections.

1. Prologue
2. Roots: Ragtime, Minstrelsy and Tent Shows
3. From Stomp to Swing: From Tuba to Bull Fiddle
4. Bennie Moten and His Competitors
5. Rhythm: From Banjo to Guitar, 2 Drums to Trap Set
6. From Bennie to Basie
7. Riffs and Jams
8. From Boogie-Woogie to Bop
9. Tenor Legacy
10. Shouters and Singers
11. Trumpets
12. Trombones
13. The Clouds of Joy and the Lady Who Swung the Band
14. Alto
15. The Rockets That Didn’t Quite Take Off
16. Bird Takes Flight
17. Jay McShann and the Last of the Great Kansas City Bands
18. Evil is Banished

Erscheinungsdatum	02.03.2023
Reihe/Serie	Popular Music History
Zusatzinfo	43 black and white photos
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 234 mm
Gewicht	3116 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
ISBN-10	1-80050-282-6 / 1800502826
ISBN-13	978-1-80050-282-6 / 9781800502826
Zustand	Neuware