A pictorial history of jazz : people and places from New Orleans to modern jazz / compiledby Orrin Keepnews and Bill Grauer, Jr. ; text and captions by Orrin Keepnews ; new edition revised by Orrin Keepnews.

Beskrivning:

1. NEW ORLEANS JOYS
Storyville was its spawning ground, the streets of New
Orleans its first home. . .



2. ORIGINAL DIXIELAND ONE STEP 19
They had learned the music of the Negroes in New
Orleans, and they brought their "jazz" to Chicago, New
York, London. . .



3. STOCKYARD STRUT 29
When they closed down the Storyville district, it was time
for almost everyone to move up-river, to Chicago. . . .



4. DIPPERMOUTH 47
No doubt about it, Louis Armstrong has played more jazz
than any other man. . . .



5. MR. JELLY LORD 59
Jelly Roll Morton claimed to have "created" jazz and, in
a way, he wasn't too far from the truth. . . .



6. YONDER COMES THE BLUES 69
Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and all the backwoods singers
whose names we'll never know—they understood what the
blues was all about. . . .



7. PITCHIN' BOOGIE 81
In the deep South, and then in Chicago, they were playing
,
that barrelhouse piano music long before 'eight to the
bar" became stylish. . . .


87
8, FRIARS POINT SHUFFLE
Those cocky youngsters, like the Austin High gang, listen-
ing so hard to the music over on Chicago's South Side.. . .


95
9. BIXOLOGY
Bix Beiderbecke obviously was the sort of man about whom
legends insist upon growing. . . .


103
O. STOMP OFF, LET'S GO
Fletcher Henderson and a few others had this brand-new
idea of using written arrangements—and still keeping it
mostly jazz. . . .

11. TURN ON THE HEAT 117
You couldn't always think of the Paul Whiteman or Jean
Goldkette orchestras as jazz bands, but there were always
some pretty fair hot musicians on hand. . . .



12. HARLEM STRUT • 127
There were more good piano men than you could count,
but it wasn't really a party without Fats or James P. . . .



13. COTTON CLUB STOMP 137
Duke Ellington's music inhabits a rich, lush world of its
own, and it's been that way for almost forty years now. . . .



14. KANSAS CITY SHUFFLE 149
It's not so inuch a Kansas City "style" as a capsule his-
tory in one town: from something close to New Orleans on
to Swing, and beyond. . . .



15. SWING, BROTHER, SWING 155
First it was Benny Goodman, then it was everyone, and
the kids jitterbugging in the theater aisles. . . .



16. AT THE JAZZ BAND BALL 193
Eddie Coiidon and his "barefoot mob" of transplanted
Chicagoans, taking up permanent residence in Greenwich
Village. . .



17. COME BACK, SWEET PAPA 209
They bought Bunk Johnson a new set of teeth, and coaxed
Kid Ory away from the chicken farm, and the old-timers
blasted away as good as new. . . .



18. EMPEROR NORTON'S HUNCH 223
The way Lu Watters and the others saw it, you had to go
back to the grass-roots style, even in San Francisco in
1940. . . .



19. GROOVIN' HIGH 231
The way Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker and the-others
saw it, you had to find new changes, new chord prögres-
sions, new pathways.. . .



20. NOW'S THE TIME 257'
A great many fascinating things always seem to be hap-
pening—or just about to happen. . . .



Index 294


Picture Sources 297

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