Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Professor Ray Foxley Discography
Author: The Jazz Discography
Author: Tom LordPublisher: West Vancouver, B.C. : Lord Music Reference ; Redwood, N.Y. : North Country Distributors, c1992- .
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Rod Mason Discography
Author: Gerard BieldermanRoger Marks Discography
Author: Gerard BieldermanThe Banjo on Record
Author: Uli HeierPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
The appeal of the banjo has been shown to be timeless and universal---adaptable to almost any form of popular music. It was one of just a few instruments that could be faithfully reproduced in the early days of sound recording, and its recording history dates back to 1889. Heier documents that history on cylinders and 78-rpm disks in the pre-LP era ending in the mid-1950s. The book offers a comprehensive compilation of all such recordings on which the banjo plays a solo role or dominant part. Organized by performer or performing group, the recordings are listed chronologically with location, date, matrix number, and take-digit as available, as well as manufacturer and catalog number. Biographical information on the banjoist is provided wherever possible, and all performers anywhere in the world known to have recorded any type of music on banjo are included even if no data on the actual disks is available. Introduced in a foreword by British discographer Brian Rust, the discography also includes a narrative account of the banjo in phonograph recording history by Lowell Schreyer and an essay on the history of the banjo itself by Robert Lloyd Webb. In addition to the discography proper, the editors have provided a preface, A Quick Look at the Banjo Family, identifying the instruments; an extensive bibliography of sources; an index of all tune titles; and reproductions of 92 recording labels. These elements all combine to make this volume a true discopedia of the banjo.
Who's who of Jazz
Author: John ChiltonThe Skiffle Craze
Author: Michael DewePublisher: Virago Press
ISBN: 9780950518855
Category : Popular music
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Heart Full of Rhythm
Author: Ricky RiccardiPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190914130
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Nearly 50 years after his death, Louis Armstrong remains one of the 20th century's most iconic figures. Popular fans still appreciate his later hits such as "Hello, Dolly!" and "What a Wonderful World," while in the jazz community, he remains venerated for his groundbreaking innovations in the 1920s. The achievements of Armstrong's middle years, however, possess some of the trumpeter's most scintillating and career-defining stories. But the story of this crucial time has never been told in depth until now. Between 1929 and 1947, Armstrong transformed himself from a little-known trumpeter in Chicago to an internationally renowned pop star, setting in motion the innovations of the Swing Era and Bebop. He had a similar effect on the art of American pop singing, waxing some of his most identifiable hits such as "Jeepers Creepers" and "When You're Smiling." However as author Ricky Riccardi shows, this transformative era wasn't without its problems, from racist performance reviews and being held up at gunpoint by gangsters to struggling with an overworked embouchure and getting arrested for marijuana possession. Utilizing a prodigious amount of new research, Riccardi traces Armstrong's mid-career fall from grace and dramatic resurgence. Featuring never-before-published photographs and stories culled from Armstrong's personal archives, Heart Full of Rhythm tells the story of how the man called "Pops" became the first "King of Pop."
Roy Eldridge, Little Jazz Giant
Author: John ChiltonPublisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
This biography charts the life and career of the trumpeter, Roy Eldridge. New light is shed on the various occasions when Eldridge unwillingly became entangled with gangsters, his uneven working relationships and the hurdles he had to overcome when working in all-white ensembles.
Melodious Accord
Author: Alice ParkerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780929650432
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description