Book contents
- On Jazz
- Reviews
- On Jazz
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Getting Started
- Chapter 2 New Orleans 1976
- Chapter 3 Before Katrina
- Chapter 4 Two Women of New Orleans
- Chapter 5 Finding Fats
- Chapter 6 Swing Era Legends
- Chapter 7 Louis Armstrong
- Chapter 8 Count Basie
- Chapter 9 Duke Ellington
- Chapter 10 Dizzy and Bird
- Chapter 11 The Modern Jazz Quartet
- Chapter 12 The ‘Swing Drummer’
- Chapter 13 Jackie McLean and Sonny Rollins
- Chapter 14 Oscar Peterson and His Trios
- Chapter 15 The Dawn of Fusion
- Chapter 16 A Taste of Freedom
- Chapter 17 Looking Back and Looking Forward
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
Chapter 1 - Getting Started
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 March 2022
- On Jazz
- Reviews
- On Jazz
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Getting Started
- Chapter 2 New Orleans 1976
- Chapter 3 Before Katrina
- Chapter 4 Two Women of New Orleans
- Chapter 5 Finding Fats
- Chapter 6 Swing Era Legends
- Chapter 7 Louis Armstrong
- Chapter 8 Count Basie
- Chapter 9 Duke Ellington
- Chapter 10 Dizzy and Bird
- Chapter 11 The Modern Jazz Quartet
- Chapter 12 The ‘Swing Drummer’
- Chapter 13 Jackie McLean and Sonny Rollins
- Chapter 14 Oscar Peterson and His Trios
- Chapter 15 The Dawn of Fusion
- Chapter 16 A Taste of Freedom
- Chapter 17 Looking Back and Looking Forward
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
Summary
In the foreword, Shipton sets out his approach of using multiple oral history sources to explore such topics as Duke Ellington's Orchestra, the Oscar Peterson Trio, and the role of the swing vocalist. He discusses such source material as interviews with Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown and Ed Thigpen, as well as with Clark Terry, Louie Bellson and Jimmy Woode. He pays attention to such female vocalists as Jewel Brown and Carmen Bradford. He then locates the book in terms of his own historical research, and ways in which a white European writer can approach African American music.
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- On JazzA Personal Journey, pp. 1 - 19Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022