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viii, 232 pages ; 22 cm |
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Introduction : a contemporary art -- Jelly Roll Morton : three-minute form -- Louis Armstrong : style beyond style -- Bix Beiderbecke : the white man's burden -- Coleman Hawkins : some comments on a phoenix -- Billie Holiday : actress without an act -- Duke Ellington : form beyond form -- Count Basie and Lester Young : style beyond swing -- Charlie Parker : the burden of innovation -- Thelonius Monk : modern jazz in search of maturity -- John Lewis and the Modern Jazz Quartet : modern conservative -- Sonny Rollins : spontaneous orchestration -- Horace Silver : the meaning of craftsmanship -- Miles Davis : a man walking -- John Coltrane : a man in the middle -- Ornette Coleman : the meaning of innovation. |
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Jazz -- History and criticism.
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Jazz. |
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Jazz musicians.
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Jazz musicians. |
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Jazz. |
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Jazz. |
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