epub |eng | 2003-10-28 | Author:Ashley Kahn [Kahn, Ashley]

Hentoff explains further: It’s awfully hard to get words to say what the musician had in mind, and when the musician is articulate, you’re one step ahead. It’s a word ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-16 | Author:Ben Ratliff

Although Miles continues to play with delicacy and infinite grace, his group’s solidarity is hampered by the angry tenor of Coltrane. Backing himself into rhythmic corners on flurries of notes, ...

epub |eng | 1998-08-21 | Author:John F. Szwed [Szwed, John F.]

If “Heliocentric” lacks a melody, it nonetheless has motives, like the staggered entry of three trombones (which oddly suggests the “Kane” motif at the opening of Citizen Kane), which also ...

azw3 |eng | 2016-02-07 | Author:Krin Gabbard [Gabbard, Krin]

PART III Third Stream Music and the Rest of Jazz History In Beneath the Underdog, Mingus portrays himself as a complex individual searching for self-knowledge. We should not, therefore, be ...

epub |eng | | Author:Marcus Baram

23. “DO WE HAVE ENOUGH LOVE?” Many of Gil’s early songs on Small Talk and Pieces of a Man focused on the oppression that he himself had experienced: racism in ...

epub |eng | 2019-09-23 | Author:Jackson Bird

June 14, 2011. I ended up packing a huge suitcase full of two wardrobe options for every occasion—swim trunks and a bikini, baggy khaki shorts and skinny jeans, a suit ...

epub |eng | 2011-06-20 | Author:Ricky Riccardi [Riccardi, Ricky]

Armstrong’s arrival in Buenos Aires was greeted with the usual chaos. “The famous trumpet player and his wife—here on a goodwill tour—had to be spirited away from the theater in ...

epub |eng | 2016-06-14 | Author:Richard Carlin

Levy’s office had a back door and private rear elevator through which he could escape when needed. James’s initial impression of Levy mirrored the recollections of others. A big, imposing ...

epub |eng | 2015-04-15 | Author:Will Friedwald

What was Jenkins’s approach to working with Cole? “Well, you sit down at the piano, and he’d sing it through, if he had an idea, he might want to start ...

epub |eng | | Author:Sallie Bingham

17 Both before and after the war, Hawaii provided Doris with plenty of spirit-brightening recreation—swimming, diving, surfing, and outrigger canoeing—far from the ceaseless hounding of the press. Dedicated to long ...

epub |eng | 2019-10-07 | Author:Travis Atria

27 “All the [bad] musicians had faded out of the picture in Paris entirely.”1 —Arthur Briggs ARTHUR BRIGGS SOLDIERED ON. IN February 1935, he met the great saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, ...

epub |eng | 2011-07-15 | Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald & James L. W. West III

A Short Autobiography (with acknowledgements to Nathan) 1913 The four defiant Canadian Club whiskeys at the Susquehanna in Hackensack. 1914 The Great Western Champagne at the Trent House in Trenton ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-19 | Author:Baber, Katherine;

Table 4.1: Formal and Narrative Schemes in Symphony no. 2, Part 2 Although it comes rather late in the symphony and in the poem, “The Masque” better articulates conflict, as ...

epub |eng | 2020-03-16 | Author:Nancy F. Cott

AT THE FIRST crest of Personal History’s success in March 1935, Sheean acquired a “girlfriend,” in his own word. He fixed his eye on Diana Forbes-Robertson—called Dinah—daughter of a famous ...

epub |eng | 2012-07-20 | Author:Burroughs, William S [Burroughs, William S.]

Yesterday I painted a picture called “Le Revenant,” with just such a figure, in a robe that covered the head and only a black outline where the face would be. ...