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Dance Of The Infidels
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 440

Dance Of The Infidels

What Charlie Parker was to the saxophone, Bud Powell (1924-1966) was to the piano. But genius has its price, and Powell spent much of his life in electroshock therapy in psychiatric institutions. "Dance of the Infidels" tells Powell's compelling story. 191 photos.

  • Language: en
  • Pages: 426

"To Bird with Love"

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1981
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Wail
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 476

Wail

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Amazing Bud Powell
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

The Amazing Bud Powell

Bud Powell was not only one of the greatest bebop pianists of all time, he stands as one of the twentieth century’s most dynamic and fiercely adventurous musical minds. His expansive musicianship, riveting performances, and inventive compositions expanded the bebop idiom and pushed jazz musicians of all stripes to higher standards of performance. Yet Powell remains one of American music’s most misunderstood figures, and the story of his exceptional talent is often overshadowed by his history of alcohol abuse, mental instability, and brutalization at the hands of white authorities. In this first extended study of the social significance of Powell’s place in the American musical landscape, Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. shows how the pianist expanded his own artistic horizons and moved his chosen idiom into new realms. Illuminating and multi-layered, The Amazing Bud Powell centralizes Powell’s contributions as it details the collision of two vibrant political economies: the discourses of art and the practice of blackness.

Black Magic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 348

Black Magic

Krin Gabbard explores the often hidden & unacknowledged contribution of African American culture to Hollywood movies. Although relying heavily on African American music, language & street culture, the old racial hierarchies often seem preserved.

The Bud Powell Real Book (Songbook)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 83

The Bud Powell Real Book (Songbook)

(Fake Book). Features 44 signature songs from this jazz piano genius, all in the famous Real Book style! Includes: Audrey * Blue Pearl * Borderick * Bouncing with Bud * Bud on Bach * Burt Covers Bud * Buster Rides Again * Celia * Cleopatra's Dream * Comin' Up * Crossin' the Channel * Dance of the Infidels * Danceland * Down with It * Dry Soul * Duid Deed * Dusk in Saudi * Elogie * Fantasy in Blue * The Fruit * Get It * Gettin' There * Hallucinations * I'll Keep Loving You * In the Mood for a Classic * John's Abbey * Jump City * Keepin' in the Groove * Marmalade * Midway * Monopoly * Oblivion * Parisian Thoroughfare * Scene Changes * So Sorry Please * Strictly Confidential * Sub City * Tempus Fugit * Time Waits * Topsy Turvey * Un Poco Loco * Wail * Webb City * Willow Grove (Willow Groove).

French Music and Jazz in Conversation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

French Music and Jazz in Conversation

This book explores the historical-cultural interactions between French concert music and American jazz across 1900-65, from both perspectives.

Ed van der Elsken
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 164

Ed van der Elsken

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Edition 7L

This book captures photographically the essensc of jazz because it is more than just a succession of musicians' portraits, or even a documentary record of performance, but a book that visually echoes the music itself.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 370

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls examines the bizarre and fascinating range of gender portrayals in film at the end of the twentieth century. In order to view the screened face of gender in bold new ways, the contributors cover a wide variety of cinematic forms and styles—from the boy-girls of Hong Kong cinema to the on-screen modesty of post-revolutionary Iran to the New Hollywood's treatment of homosexuality, female power, and male intellectuality. Throughout, the works of important filmmakers are analyzed, including Ridley Scott, David Cronenberg, Jim Jarmusch, Woody Allen, Rakhshan Banietemad, Kathryn Bigelow, Bertrand Tavernier, Roman Polanski, and many others.

Play the Way You Feel
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 401

Play the Way You Feel

"This book-both a narrative and a film directory-surveys and analyzes English-language feature films (and a few shorts and TV shows/movies) made between 1927 and 2016 that tell stories about jazz music, its musicians, its history and culture. Play the Way You Feel looks at jazz movies as a narrative tradition with recurring plot points and story tropes, whose roots and development are traced. It also demonstrates how jazz stories cut across diverse genres-biopic, romance, musical, comedy and science fiction, horror, crime and comeback stories, "race movies" and modernized Shakespeare-even as they constitute a genre of their own. The book is also a directory/checklist of such films, 66 of them with extensive credits, plus dozens more shorter/capsule discussions. Where jazz films are based on literary sources, they are examined, and the nature of their adaptation explored: what gets retained, removed, or invented? What do historical films get right and wrong? How does a film's music, and the style of the filmmaking itself, reinforce or undercut the story?--