Sidney Bechet: The Wizard of Jazz - Softcover

Chilton, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0306806789 ISBN 13: 9780306806780

Verlag: Da Capo Press, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Chilton John

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Reseña del editor:

Fifty years after hearing Sidney Bechet (1897-1959) in 1923, Duke Ellington recalled, "I have never forgotten the power and imagination with which he played." The first great jazz soloist, Bechet was a genius of the clarinet and the notoriously difficult soprano saxophone. In a career that spanned five decades and two continents he worked with Bunk Johnson, King Oliver, Duke Ellington, Josephine Baker, Jelly Roll Morton, and Louis Armstrong. He was a giant in early New Orleans jazz and a pioneer of improvisation whose contribution to the music, from the traditional to the avant-garde, has been a vital and lasting one. This biography reveals with insight and precision the man and his music, and illuminates the many events obscured by Bechet's own highly readable but factually suspect autobiography, Treat It Gentle.

Biografía del autor:

A professional trumpeter and jazz writer, John Chilton is the author of Billie's Blues, Who's Who of Jazz, and with Max Jones, Louis: The Louis Armstrong Story.

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• Verlag: Da Capo Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0306806789
• ISBN 13: 9780306806780
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384