Understanding Jazz - Hardcover

Piazza, Tom

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1400063698 ISBN 13: 9781400063697

Verlag: Random House Inc, 2005

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A definitive and entertaining tour of the world of jazz music combines an informative analysis of the principles, styles, and techniques of jazz with a companion CD featuring performances by such legendary musicians as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, and Duke Ellington. 20,000 first printing.

Biografía del autor

Tom Piazza is the author of seven books, including the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award-winning The Guide To Classic Recorded Jazz and the widely acclaimed novel My Cold War. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, Oxford American, and many other publications. He is the recipient of a James Michener Fellowship in Fiction and a 2004 Grammy Award for his album notes to Martin Scorsese Presents: The Blues–a Musical Journey. He may be visited at www.tompiazza.com.

Wynton Marsalis is the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Marsalis has won nine Grammy awards and his oratorio on slavery and freedom, Blood on the Fields, became the first and, to date, only jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize in music.

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• Verlag: Random House Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1400063698
• ISBN 13: 9781400063697
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 301
• Zeichner: Marsalis Wynton