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Zusatztext "Hentoff is . . . an iconic jazz writer" Informationen zum Autor Nat Hentoff is an internationally known jazz critic and the only critic ever designated a Jazz Master by the NEA. He is a regular columnist for Jazz.com and the Wall Street Journal ! the United Media Newspaper Syndicate! and the Cato Institute! where he is a senior fellow. His many books include Jazz Country; Jazz Is; The Jazz Life; Boston Boy: Growing Up with Jazz and Other Rebellious Passions; Living the Bill of Rights ; and the forthcoming Is This America? Klappentext "Nat Hentoff may very well be the foremost jazz historian in the world because he was there to witness firsthand the music's evolution from big band and swing to fusion and bossa nova; and to dive into the souls of the men and women who created it from Ellington! Basie! Miles! Ray Charles! Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Washington! among many others. At the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene is an invaluable archive of not only the musical influence of America's only indigenous music on the world! but its enormous impact as an engine for social change as well. It is a book that should be read by every young musician! music fan! and educator in America."-Quincy Jones "The very best witnesses in the worlds of the law! aesthetic evaluation! social contexts of imposing significance! and artistic public performance are those who accurately understand what they have seen or what they are seeing. Nat Hentoff has been and continues to be a star witness in every one of those arenas. One of the greatest contributions of his jazz writing is that he has never felt the need to condescend to black people or to let the dictates of sociology diminish the universal significance of what they do when they do it well. Nat knows that so many jazz musicians have done what they do superbly! quite often expressing themselves beyond the narrows of color. As sensitive to the Americana of jazz as he is to its transcendent revelations about the sound of the human heart! Nat Hentoff is part of our American luck."-Stanley Crouch " At the Jazz Band Ball is full of nuggets from Nat's rich lode of wit and wisdom! gleaned in a lifetime of fellowship with jazz and its makers."-Dan Morgenstern! Director! Institute of Jazz Studies! Rutgers University; author of Living With Jazz: A Reader Zusammenfassung From Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong to Ornette Coleman and Quincy Jones, this title explores the jazz greats, and traces their art to gospel, blues, and many other forms of American music. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Foreword by Lewis Porter Acknowledgments Introduction Part One. What Am I Here For? The Rules of My Jazz Odyssey 1. Who Owns Jazz? 2. My Debt to Artie Shaw 3. The Family of Jazz 4. Beyond the Process 5. Playing Changes on Jazz Interviews Part Two. In the Presence of Ellington 6. Inside the Ellington Band 7. Duke Ellington's Posthumous Revenge 8. Essentially Duke (and Wynton) 9. Ellington's Band Is Heavenly in These "Live" Forties Recordings Part Three. Jazz Credentials 10. Is Jazz Black Music? 11. No One Else Sounded Like "Pee Wee" Russell 12. Just Call Him Thelonious 13. Remembering Dizzy 14. Oscar Peterson: A Jazz "Behemoth" Moves On 15. A Great Night in Providence for Jazz and Snow 16. The Perfect Jazz Club 17. Anita O'Day: The Life of a Music Legend 18. The Music of the 1930s Is Back in Full Swing 19. The Expansive Jazz Journey of Marian McPartland 20. Going Inside Jazz with Wynton Part Four. The Jazz Life On and Off the Road 21. Memories Are Made of This: A Conversation with Clark Terry 22. Man! I'm So Lucky to Be a Jazz Musi...
