Jazz Portraits – The lives and music of the Jazz Masters
Häftad bok. Quill William Morrow New York. 1989. 610 sidor.
Mycket gott skick.
JAZZ PORTRAITS is a comprehensive guide to the gallery of orginators, virttuosos, and genuines of jazz. From the birth of jazz to the high-tech studio art emerging today, the lives of more than two hundred masters who have created and expanded the music are portrayed in detailed, carefully researched biographies.
The entires discuss the artists musical development and contributions to the art form, and highlight the great moments and historic recordings of their careers. Illustrated with over eighty photos, JAZZ PORTRAITS also contaiuns a glossary of more than one hundred terms used in jazz criticism and an appendix that lists the musicians chronologically by instrument – a tool that complements this books achievement of describing each practitioner with insightsful historical perspective.
JAZZ PORTRAITS captures the rich and varied strains that compose the jazz genre. It is an essential refeence work for every jazz collection.
