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Chargement... Jazz Anecdotes (1990)par Bill Crow
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. The author is a bass player and writer who played with Gerry Mulligan and many others. This is one of two of his large collection of anecdotes about Jazz musicians. The stories are grouped thematically, e.g. a chapter with stories about Jazz musicians who don’t read music (Someone asked Erroll Garner why he had never bothered to learn to read music and he replied that nobody could hear him read.), and also by musician, e.g. a chapter with some of the many Benny Goodman stories. While reading these, I tended to group the anecdotes into those that couldn’t be true, those that are old jokes that someone applied to a Jazz musician, those that seem like they’ve been specifically created to highlight a known characteristic of a particular musician, and most interesting - those that involve multiple people and that the author has determined to be more or less true. The author did considerable research and in many cases he reports an interesting or well-known story from the different viewpoints of multiple participants. ( ) A book with short anecdotes about jazz by musicians, about musicians, about all kind of (music)aspects. One of my personal favorites is an anecdote by Jimmy Cobb: Miles Davis would say to John Coltrane: "why don't you play 27 instead of 28 choruses?" Coltrane answered: "I don't know how to stop." Davis once suggested: "Try taking the saxophone out of your mouth." Great fun to read! Recommended if you like jazz! (1990 Edition) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
When jazz musicians get together, they often delight one another with stories about the great, or merely remarkable, players and singers they've worked with. One good story leads to another until someone says, amid the laughter, "Somebody ought to write these down!" With Jazz Anecdotes, somebody finally has. Drawing on a rich verbal tradition, bassist and jazz writer Bill Crow has culled stories from interviews, biographies and autobiographies, the remarkable collection of oral histories compiled by the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University, and his own columns to paint fascinating and very human portraits of jazz musicians. Organized around general topics--teaching and learning, stage fright, life on the road, prejudice and discrimination, and the importance of a good nickname--Jazz Anecdotes shows the jazz world as it really is and suggests why it gives its devotees a kick like no other. In addition, it offers extended sections on jazz greats such as Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and the fabulous Eddie Condon, who seems to have lived his entire life with the anecdotist in mind. With its unique blend of sparkling dialogue and historical and social insight, Jazz Anecdotes will delight anyone who loves a good story. It offers a fresh perspective on the joys and hardships of a musician's life as well as a rare glimpse of the personalities who created America's most distinctive music. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)781.65The arts Music General principles and musical forms Traditions of music Jazz {equally instrumental and vocal}Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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