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Visions of Jazz
The First Century
 Gary
Giddins
Oxford University Press, 1999
Paperback. 702pp
£15.00
 Winner
of the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, the Ralph
J. Gleason Music Book Award, the Bell Atlantic Jazz Award for Book of
the Year, and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year!
GARY GIDDINS is the
jazz critic for the Village Voice and lives in New York City.
"The most revolutionary
of recent jazz histories, a new dialectic and a ringing manifesto."
- BRIAN MORTON, Times Literary Supplement
"Visions
of Jazz: The First Century is a major event because Gary Giddins
is our best jazz critic... The finest unconventional history of jazz ever
written - a brilliant, indispensable book." - ALFRED APPEL, The
New York Times Book Review
CONTENTS:
Introduction
Part 1: Precursors
Bert Williams / Al Jolson
Hank Jones / Charlie Haden
Louis Armstrong / Mills Brothers
W.C. Handy
Irving Berlin
Spencer Williams
Ethel Waters
Bunk Johnson / George Lewis
Part 2: A New Music
Jelly Roll Morton
King Oliver
Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
Coleman Hawkins
Pee Wee Russell
Chick Webb
Fats Waller
Part 3: A Popular Music
Benny Goodman
Jimmie Lunceford
Count Basie / Lester Young
Jimmy Rushing
Roy Eldridge
Ella Fitzgerald
Artie Shaw
Rudd Johnson
Bobby Hackett
Frank Sinatra
Part 4: A Modern Music
Duke Ellington
Billy Strayhorn
Spike Jones
Charlie Parker
Dizzy Gillespie
Sarah Vaughan
Thelonious Monk
Bud Powell
Chico O'Farrill
Stan Kenton
Dester Gordon
Part 5: A Mainstream Music
Miles Davis
Gerry Mulligan
Art Blakey
Billie Holiday
Modern Jazz Quartet
Nat King Cole
Stan Getz
Sonny Rollins
Dinah Washington
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Part 6: An Alternative Music
Art Tatum
Charles Mingus
Cecil Taylor
Ornette Coleman
John Coltrane
Duke Ellington
Muhal Richard Abrama
Roscoe Mitchell
Henry Threadgill
Charles Gayle / David S. Ware / Mathew Shipp
Part 7: A Struggling Music
Hannibal Peterson
Jimmy Rowles
John Carter
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Julius Hemphill
Don Pullen
Gary Bartz
David Murray
Dave Burrell
Abbey Lincoln
Part 8: A Traditional Music
Randy Weston
Rosemary Clooney
Joe Henderson
Tommy Flanagan
Joe Lovano
Geri Allen / Jacky Terrasson
Joshua Redman
Stephen Scott
James Carter
Louis Armstrong
Cassandra Wilson
Don Byron
Acknowledgements
Index of Names
Index of Songs and Selected Albums
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