Live at The Cellar

Vancouver’s Iconic Jazz Club and the Canadian Co-operative Jazz Scene in the 1950s and ‘60s

Marian Jago (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

364 Seiten

2018
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-3769-9 (ISBN)

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Live at the Cellar tells the story of Vancouver’s iconic jazz club and other co-operative scenes during the 1950s and ’60s and the profound influence they had on the evolution of jazz in Canada.

In the 1950s and ’60s, co‐operative jazz clubs such as Vancouver’s Cellar, Edmonton’s Yardbird Suite, and Halifax’s 777 Barrington Street opened their doors in response to new forms of jazz expression emerging after the war and a lack of available performance spaces outside major urban centres. Operated on a not‐for-profit basis by the musicians themselves, these hip new clubs created spaces where young jazz musicians could practise their art close to home.

Live at the Cellar looks at this unique period in the development of jazz in Canada. Centered on Vancouver’s legendary Cellar club, and including co-ops in four other cities, it explores the ways in which these clubs functioned as sites for the performance and exploration of jazz as well as magnets for countercultural expression in other arts, such as literature, theatre, and film. Marian Jago’s deft combination of new, original research with archival evidence, interviews, and photographs allows us to witness the beginnings of a pan-Canadian jazz scene as well as the emergence of key Canadian jazz figures, such as P.J. Perry, Don Thompson, and Terry Clarke, and the rise of jazz icons such as Paul Bley and Ornette Coleman. Although the Cellar and other jazz co-ops are long shuttered, in their day they created a new and infectious energy that still reverberates in Canada’s jazz scene today.

Marian Jago, originally from Canada’s west coast, is now a lecturer in popular music and jazz studies at the University of Edinburgh. She has published frequently on a wide variety of jazz topics for the Journal of Jazz Studies, Jazz Perspectives, Jazz Research Journal, Routledge, Bloomsbury, and others. Some of her recent work looks at the relationship of jazz to the writing of Jack Kerouac, the jazz economy of New York in the 1960s, and extended studio techniques versus “liveness” in jazz recordings. She also maintains an active interest in the Canadian jazz scene as well as the music and pedagogical practices of Lee Konitz and Lennie Tristano.

Foreword by Don Thompson

Preface

Introduction

Part 1 | Setting the Scene

1 Are You In or Out? The Nature of the “Scene”

2 Laying the Groundwork: The Early History of Jazz in Canada

Part 2 | The Vancouver Scene

3 The Making of a Jazz Scene: Vancouver’s Cellar Club

4 No Room for Squares: The Cellar as Artistic Hub

5 In the Swing of Things: Growth, Maturation, and Mingus

6 Altered Chords: New Blood and the End of an Era

Part 3 | Other Canadian Scenes

7 Co-ops from Coast to Coast: Edmonton, Calgary, Halifax

Conclusion

Appendices: Gigography for the Cellar, 1956–63; Canadian Jazz Sources

Notes; Selected Bibliography; Interviews; Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.10.2018
Vorwort	Don Thompson
Zusatzinfo	50 b&w photos, 2 maps
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	540 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-7748-3769-1 / 0774837691
ISBN-13	978-0-7748-3769-9 / 9780774837699
Zustand	Neuware