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Guide to Jazz PDF

360 Pages·1956·19.157 MB·English
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“The musicians’ Bible,” is how Louis Armstrong describes the Guide to Jazz. In it Hugues Panassie provides a brief biography of the great and near-great among jazzmen, and with the aid of his vast information and years of study in the field, evaluates the contributions of each. He also identifies and describes the best jazz classics, explains the role of every instrument in a band, defines musical terms, and best of all conveys his frank, forthright opinion of some of the heresies to be encountered in presentday jazz.As every fan knows, Hugues Panassié was the first critic to take jazz seriously as an important musical form — perhaps the most significant music of the twentieth century. His great early study, Hot Jazz, dropped like a bombshell on the musical world, and was one of the prime forces in the growing recognition of jazz as a “respectable” art. His recent book The Real Jazz was acclaimed by musicians and amateurs alike as containing the most authoritative, sensitive criticism ever published on the subject; was praised in reviews for its “solid musical analysis and the etched words with which it describes performers and their styles.” Louis Armstrong praises the author for having “helped people to understand jazz better. . . . He explains it so beautifully," and says: “How many people have gotten to know real jazz and been converted through Panassié!”Originally published in France in 1954 under the title Dictionnaire du Jazz, the Guide has been brought completely up to date and expanded for the American edition by jazz expert A. A. Gurwitch, known to readers of Metronome, Downbeat, etc., for his critical essays, and a collaborator with Panassie in the production of the first International Jazz Festival at Nice, France.Much more than just a reference book — although it does contain over seventy biographies not to be found elsewhere — the Guide to Jazz is a colorful, personal expression of the views of the greatest authority of them all. In addition to being a must for anyone who wants to know what jazz is all about, it's an indispensable companion to a record collection. For the confirmed fan, of course, it's the most!— George Kelley

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Author:Hugues Panassié; Madeleine Gautier; Desmond Flower (tr.); Arnold A. Gurwitch (ed.); Louis Armstrong (intr.)
Publication Year:1956
ISBN:3686982
Pages:360
Language:English
File Size:19.157
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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