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| The
Bluffer's Guide to Jazz | | By
Peter Clayton and Peter Gammond | | |
| Extracts
from the book | |
| | | Anon |
| It's
a pretty safe bet, if an unfamiliar 1940s/50s name crops up in conversation, that
you can easily get away with saying: 'Oh, yes. Parker roomed with him for a time.'
Even if he didn't, nobody is going to be sure enough to say so. And it somehow
makes the unknown musician seem a better player. |
| | | Louisiana |
| The
decrepit state of their instruments and the decrepit state of the players who
all drank heavily or smoked marijuana, tended to give genuine New Orleans jazz
the flavour of fried boots. | | |
| Jazz
legends | | Bolden's
main claim to fame was the loudness of his playing; it being said, with the straightest
of faces, that he could be heard 'fourteen miles away on a clear night'. As nobody
who was fourteen miles away at the time has ever come forward to verify this,
it is yet another jazz legend that has to be treated with a modicum of suspicion. |
| | | A
state of mind | | Anyone
looking for a clear definition of the blues, even in the most scholarly books,
will be told that blues are fundamentally a state of mind. The spirit of the blues
inhabits all true jazz. It's what makes it 'funky'. |
| | | Reviews |
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| | | The
Bluffer's Guide to Jazz provides enough basic knowledge to get by in conversation
with an aficionado and, despite its flippant approach, is crammed with information.
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Daily Mail | | |
| Table
of Contents | |
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Pure Jazz
Kinds of Jazz Jazz
History
Up the River and All That Jazz
Ragtime
The Blues
Boogie-Woogie
Swing
New Orleans Jazz
Chicago Jazz
New York Jazz
Kansas City
Jazz
Minton's
Into the Cool
Le Jazz Hot
British Jazz Famous
Names
Louis Armstrong
Count Basie
Sidney Bechet
Bix Beiderbecke
Buddy Bolden
Dave Brubeck
Benny Carter
Ornette Coleman
John Coltrane
Eddie Condon
Miles Davis
Duke Ellington
Bud Freeman
Erroll Garner
Dizzy Gillespie
Benny Goodman
Lionel Hampton
Coleman Hawkins
Fletcher
Henderson
Woody Herman
Earl Hines
Billie Holiday
Mahalia Jackson
Bunk Johnson
James P. Johnson
Stan Kenton
Nick La Rocca
John Lewis
Red McKenzie
Mezz Mezzrow
Gerry Mulligan
Red Nichols
Charlie Parker
Oscar Peterson
Pee Wee Russell
Muggsy Spanier
Art Tatum
Jack Teagarden
Fats Waller
Lester Young
Mike Zwerin How
to Talk Jazz
Discography
Glossary
A Question of Jazz |
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Fortune
Telling
