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Masters of Jazz Saxophone
The Story Of The Players And Their Music
 Dave
Gelly (ed)
Balafon Books, 2000
Hardback. 224pp. b&w & colour illustrations
£24.95
 It
was Coleman Hawkins who first defined the saxophone's role in jazz, turning
it from a hooting, ineffective horn into the music's leading solo voice.
All manner of distinctive accents have since coloured that voice - from
the romantic Johnny Hodges to the indelicate bop of Charlie Parker, the
commanding John Coltrane to the frenetic free jazz of Ornette Coleman
- so that today no other instrument rivals the saxophone at the expressive
heart of jazz.
This most details
and revealing survey of jazz saxophonists begins with early twentieth-century
origins and continues to the latest musicians on the world stage today.
Masters of Jazz Saxophone offers
clear analysis and is abundantly illustrated, probing further than ever
before into the vibrant world of jazz saxophone players and their music.
CONTENTS:
The Saxophone Breaks Through - Dave Gelly
Coleman Hawkins - Loren Schoenberg
Swinging Out - Richard Cook
Still Swinging - Peter Vacher
Lester Young - Dave Gelly
Charlie Parker - Brian Priestley
Bebop Saxophones - Richard Palmer
The Cool Sound - Alun Morgan
Stan Getz & The Brothers - Jim Tomlinson
Honkers & Screamers - Tony Russell
Sonny Rollins - Richard Palmer
The Hard Boppers - Ronald Atkins
Soul Saxohones - Keith Shadwick
John Coltrane - Brian Priestley
The Modalists - Keith Shadwick
Post-Bop Individualists - Ronald Atkins
Ornette Coleman - Alyn Shipton
Free Jazz - Steve Day
Michael Brecker - Mark Gilbert
Fusion: Switched-on Saxophone - Mark Gilbert
Crossover and Smooth Jazz - Kevin Alexander
European Voices - Michael Tucker
The New Swing - Dave Gelly
Contemporary Traditionalists - Frank Griffith
The Future of Jazz Saxophone - Mark Gilbert
Recommended Listening
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