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Visions of Jazz: The First Century
by Gary Giddins

Visions of Jazz: The First Century
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Author: Gary Giddins
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2000-05-18
ISBN: 0195132416
Number of pages: 704
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Book Review: A readable and witty history of jazz
Summary: 5 Stars

I have always been interested in jazz but I was intimidated by it. The wonderful thing about Giddins's writing is the way it draws you into the music and makes you want to listen; also the incredible range of music discussed, from Jelly Roll Morton to Joshua Redman with excursions into singers, songwriters, and other people ("sidesteppers" Giddins calls them) who have influenced or been influenced by jazz. The chapters on musical humor--specifically Fats Waller and Spike Jones--are a revelation. Giddins has the ability to analyze a solo note for note and keep you enthralled; when you finally get the record, you hear it in a different way, for example Armstrong's Tight Like That or Coleman Hawkins's One Hour or Dizzy Gillespie's Manteca or Sarah Vaughan's Thinking of You, and dozens of others. By the time you get to the book's last three words--"Jazz is everywhere"--you feel that Giddins has more than made the case for the universality of this music. This is a great book.

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