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This book is the definitive history of the origins, progress, influence and decline of the big jazz bands in the United States with a sideglance at their history in other parts of the world. It mentions well over 550 bands, dealing critically as well as historically and biographically with the famous and prolific. Examples are taken from recorded material, particularly from items which are widely available. The book also looks at minor and little-recorded...
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The Original Dixieland Jazz Band was the first to make a jazz phonograph record, the first to broadcast jazz by radio, and the first to carry jazz across the Atlantic. This is a history of that New Orleans band which rocketed to fame in 1916 and made the whole world jazz-conscious.
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During the 1930s, swing bands combined jazz and popular music to create large-scale dreams for the Depression generation, capturing the imagination of America's young people, music critics, and the music business. This volume explores that world, looking at the racial mixing-up and musical swinging-out that shook the nation and has kept people dancing ever since.
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Learning to play by ear is a unique part of becoming a musician in New Orleans. This life history and photography project explores the traditional methods of teaching brass band music in the city that gave birth to jazz. The bands, social and pleasure clubs, schools and churches come to life with evocative interviews that provide a rare window into a musical culture that is restless, growing and sublime.
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