Rhythm-a-ning : jazz tradition and innovation in the '80s / Gary Giddins
1985, First Edition. New York : Oxford University Press. Review copy. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, slightly dust-dulled and edge-bumped dust wrapper. Spine of wrapper sun-toned. Not price-clipped. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #478257
ISBN: 0195035585
Physical description; xviii, 291 pages ; 22 cm. Notes; Includes index. Contents; Introduction: Jazz turns neoclassical -- Jaki Byard and the new tolerance -- Pick a card, any card -- How to not stuff a jazz classic -- Jack DeJohnette beats the band -- Moody's moods revisited -- Something else again -- Sara Vaughan: Soulful -- Sara Vaughan: Sassing Ellington -- Freedom then and now -- The trombone's connected to the... -- Fifty years of "body and soul" -- Teddy Wilson's golden oldies -- Beyond romance -- Composers ascendent -- Big noise from Missoula -- Tony Bennett without fear -- The excitable Roy Eldridge -- Lester Young grows deeper -- Note: Andrew Cyrille has a band -- Mile's wile's -- Blythemania -- Shining trumpet -- Joe Turner, unmoved mover -- The egg in the meatloaf -- Songs your mother never sang -- Art Pepper, 1926-1982 -- Sonny Stitt, 1924-1982 -- Woody Herman: Off the road -- Woody Herman: A fan's fan -- Clarinets on top -- Virtuoso entertainment -- Motor City classicist -- Stan Getz/s transfusion -- Hard again -- The jazz singer -- Gypsy soul -- Jolson's greatest heir -- Kind of Miles -- Wynton Marsalis and other neoclassical lions -- The latest scat -- Return of the organ grinder -- Technicolor repertory -- The education of David Murray -- Illinois Jacquet: Flying in Place -- Illinois Jacquet: Jacquet expands -- Life after death -- School for moderns -- Gunslinger, phase two -- Eclecticism: Ancient to the future -- Chilled classics and the real thing -- The limits of global unity -- Carmen on Holiday -- Thelonious Monk: In walked Monk -- Thelonious Monk: Rhythm-a-ning -- Frank Sinatra: An appreciation -- Frank Sinatra: For collectors -- Harmolodic Hoedown: Ornette's coloring book -- Harmolodic Hoedown: Speaking in thumbs -- Not for dancers only -- The definitive Bill Harris -- The return of New Orleans -- Euphoria -- Orchestral jazz. Subjects; 1981-1990. Jazz 1981-1990 History and criticism. Jazz.
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