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Swing to Bop

An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s

By: Ira Gitler

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Swing to Bop

An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s

By: Ira Gitler

More than fifty major figures in jazz preserve for posterity their recollections of how jazz moved from the big band era in the late 1930s and 1940s into the modern jazz period.

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New York : Oxford University Press

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0195050703

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Swing to Bop : An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s

An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s

By: Ira Gitler Jazz historian

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An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s

By: Ira Gitler Jazz historian

This book willserve as the basic work on the rise and development of bop in jazz. Engendered by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, bebop, now known as bop, quickly became the most powerful musical force in modern jazz. Today it is still the main musical language of jazz musicians. Over a ten-year period, Ira Gitler interviewed more than 50 of the seminal figures in jazz history to preserve for posterity their recollections of how jazz moved from the big band era in the late '30s and '40s into the modern jazz period. The musicians interviewed recreate not only their own experiences but also evoke the legendary figures of bop who where so influential in its development but were never recorded, people like Clyde Hart and Freddie Webster. Swing to Bop shows how the music first established itself in jam sessions in Harlem and then spread to New York's famed 52nd Street and beyond. Separate chapters describe how young musicians in major cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago and Detroit became swept up in the movement. Along with the music and the personalities who made it, the book vividly recreates the atmosphere of the country in the '30s and '40s: traveling on the ballroom theather curcuit; racial attitudes and interaction; extra-musical pastimes; the relationship to World War II; and the influence of drugs. Thus Swing to Bop reveals not only how the music evolved but the environment in which it flourished and what effect in turn the music had on that environment and the music to follow. About the Author Ira Gitler is the author of Jazz Masters of the '40s and The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Seventies. He was previously Professor of Jazz History at City College of New York and Associate Editor of Downbeat.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195364112

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9780195364118

The Masters Of Bebop

A Listener's Guide

By: Ira Gitler

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The Masters Of Bebop

A Listener's Guide

By: Ira Gitler

Back in the early 1940s, late at night in the clubs of Harlem, a handful of jazz musicians began to experiment with a style that no one had ever heard before. The music was fast, complicated, impossible to play for many of the older musicians—but it soon became the lingua franca of jazz music. They called it bebop, and as the years went by, it became even more popular. Today it reigns as perhaps the best-loved style of jazz ever created. Ira Gitler conveys the excitement of this musical birth as only someone who was there can. In The Masters of Bebop, Gitler traces the advent of what was a revolution in sound. He profiles the leading players—Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillepie, Max Roach—but also studies the style and music of the first disciples, such as Dexter Gordon and J. J. Johnson, to reveal bebop’s pervasive influence throughout American culture. Revised with an updated discography—and with a new chapter covering bebop right up through the end of the twentieth century—The Masters of Bebop is the essential listener’s handbook.

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Da Capo Press

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078674524X

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9780786745241

The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz

By: Leonard Feather

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The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz

By: Leonard Feather

Offers more than 3,300 entries covering musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Thelonious Monk, and Wynton Marsalis.

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Oxford University Press

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019532000X

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9780195320008

The Masters of Bebop

A Listener's Guide

By: Ira Gitler

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A Listener's Guide

By: Ira Gitler

Now fully updated with a new chapter: The classic introduction to the bebop era and the legendary performers who created it

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306

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Da Capo Press

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0306810093

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9780306810091

The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Seventies

By: Leonard Feather,Ira Gitler

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The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Seventies

By: Leonard Feather,Ira Gitler

Surveys the entire field of jazz during the 1970s, with nearly fifteen hundred biographies providing information about and assessments of the musicians and composers who shaped the first half-decade's jazz world.

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New York : Horizon Press

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0818012153

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9780818012150

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Swing to Bop

Swing to Bop

Swing to Bop : An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s

Swing to Bop : An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s

The Masters Of Bebop

The Masters Of Bebop

The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz

The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz

The Masters of Bebop

The Masters of Bebop

The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Seventies

The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Seventies

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