Classic Jazz - A Personal View of the Music & the Musicians

1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-520-23463-5
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 358 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 585 g

Floyd Levin, an award-winning jazz writer, has personally known many of the jazz greats who contributed to the music's colorful history. In this collection of his articles, published mostly in jazz magazines over a fifty-year period, Levin takes us into the nightclubs, the recording studios, the record companies, and, most compellingly, into the lives of the musicians who made the great moments of the traditional jazz and swing eras. Brilliantly weaving anecdotal material, primary research, and music analysis into every chapter, Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians is a gold mine of information on a rich segment of American popular music.

This collection of articles begins with Levin's first published piece and includes several new articles that were inspired by his work on this compilation. The articles are organized thematically, beginning with a piece on Kid Ory's early recordings and ending with a newly written article about the campaign to put up a monument to Louis Armstrong in New Orleans. Along the way, Levin gives in-depth profiles of many well-known jazz legends, such as Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong, and many lesser-known figures who contributed greatly to the development of jazz.

Extensively illustrated with previously unpublished photographs from Levin's personal collection, this wonderfully readable and extremely personal book is full of information that is not available elsewhere. Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians will be celebrated by jazz scholars and fans everywhere for the overview it provides of the music's evolution, and for the love of jazz it inspires on every page.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Levin, Floyd

Weitere Mitwirkende

Carter, Benny

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Jazz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FOREWORD BY BENNY CARTER

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

1 KID ORY AND THE REVIVAL ERA

Kid Ory

Kid Ory’s Legendary

Nordskog/Sunshine Recordings
Papa Mutt Carey

Buster Wilson

Andrew Blakeney

Ram Hall

Dink Johnson

Bud Scott

Joe Darensbourg

Ed “Montudie” Garland

Teddy Buckner

2 A PERSONAL VIEW OF THE MUSIC

Lieutenant Jim Europe’s Hellfighters—The 369th Infantry Jazz Band

“I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate”
The First Recorded Hit of the Jazz Age

The World Premiere of “Rhapsody in Blue”

“Relaxin’ at the Touro”—Memories of Muggsy Spanier

Spud Murphy

A Memorable Jack Teagarden Record Date

The Duke Ellington Sacred Music Concert—New Orleans, 1970
Dick Hyman’s Historic Direct-to-CD Recording Session

3 A PERSONAL VIEW OF THE MUSICIANS

Benny Carter

James P. Johnson

Brun Campbell and Scott Joplin

Rex Stewart’s Memories of Jelly Roll Morton
Anita Gonzales and the Untold Story of Jelly Roll Morton’s Last Years
Johnny Guarnieri

I’m Just Wild about Eubie—Memories of Eubie Blake

Jess Stacy

Milt Hinton

Spiegle Willcox

Eddie Miller

Morty Corb

Barney Bigard

Wild Bill Davison

Rosy McHargue

Artie Shaw
Andy Razaf

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Coot Grant and Sox Wilson

The World’s Greatest Jazz Band

4 THE INFLUENCE OF NEW ORLEANS
MUSICIANS ON CLASSIC JAZZ

The Jazz Journey—From Lulu White’s Mahogany Hall to Carnegie Hall

Papa Celestin and the Voodoo Queen

Danny Barker—The Jazz Troubadour

Lorenzo Tio, Jr., and the Clarinetists of the Crescent City

Willie James Humphrey, Jr.

George Lewis

Alton Purnell

Bill Russell

5 THE GREAT LOUIS ARMSTRONG

Louis Armstrong’s Underrated Recordings during the Big-Band Era

“Ambassador Satch” on the World Stage

A Sentimental Journey—Louis’ Funeral

6 JAZZ ON THE WEST COAST

Los Angeles in the Swing Era

The Palomar Ballroom Fire

The Firehouse Five and the Good Time Jazz Record Company

The Yerba Buena Jazz Band and the Jazz Man Label

Benny Strickler

Turk Murphy’s Final Triumph

I Remember Bob Scobey

Dave Dexter, Jr.

The Poor Angel Hot Jazz Society

Dick Cary’s Tuesday Night Band

7 UNSUNG HEROES

Pete Daily

Stew Pletcher

Sammy Lee

Pud Brown

Bob McCracken

Pat Gogerty

Rick Fay

8 THE SEVEN-YEAR CHALLENGE TO COMPLETE THE LOUIS ARMSTRONG STATUE

A Fund Is Created in Old New Orleans

“For the Love of Louis,” by Ned Brundage

Bing Crosby to the Rescue

July 4, 1976

EPILOGUE

INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Floyd Levin has been published in many magazines, including Down Beat, Jazz Journal International,and American Rag. He has received several awards for his work, most recently the Leonard Feather Communicator Award given annually by the Los Angeles Jazz Society. He was voted Number One Jazz Journalist in a recent readers' poll in the Mississippi Rag.