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The first comprehensive biography of this hipster magus . . . [John Szwed] allows different sides of Smith's personality to catch blades of sun. He brings the right mixture of reverence and comic incredulity to his task." -Dwight Garner, The New York TimesGrammy Award-winning music scholar and celebrated biographer John Szwed presents the first biography of Harry Smith, the brilliant eccentric who transformed twentieth century art and culture....

Grammy Award-winning music scholar and celebrated biographer John Szwed presents the first biography of Harry Smith, the brilliant eccentric who transformed twentieth century art and culture.He was an anthropologist, filmmaker, painter, folklorist, mystic, and walking encyclopedia. He taught Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe about the occult, swapped drugs with Timothy Leary, sat at the piano with Thelonious Monk, lived with (and tortured) A...

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Sun Ra, a.k.a. Herman Poole "Sonny" Blount (1914-1993), has been hailed as "one of the great big-band leaders, pianists, and surrealists of jazz" ("New York Times"). This biography of Sun Ra is "as trippy and entertaining as the great jazz genius himself" ("Details"). 20 photos.

«Triste, olivastra, pigra, felina, fumosa, strana.» Sembra la declinazione di una personalità spigolosa, invece è quella di una voce, una voce «molto difficile da descrivere»: quella di Billie Holiday, la più grande interprete jazz di tutti i tempi. La dea dalle celebri stravaganze e irregolarità ritmiche, la Billie politica di Strange Fruite della Harlem degli anni trenta, anima gemella di Lester Young e rivale di Ella Fitzgerald, la Billie t...

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Quite possibly the most inspirational music biography ever written - essential. MUZIK

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Revelatory . . . one of the most briskly revealing pieces of jazz biography that I've read." -Richard Brody, The New Yorker When Billie Holiday first stepped into a recording studio in November 1933, it marked the beginning of what is arguably the most remarkable and influential career in twentieth-century popular music. Her voice weathered countless shifts in popular taste, and today new reincarnations of her continue to arrive, most recently...

Pianista, bandleader e compositore tra i più originali del Novecento, in cinquant'anni di attività Sun Ra (1914-93) ha disegnato una vera e propria "storia parallela" del jazz, non soltanto allargandone lo spettro espressivo contaminando lo swing con il funk, il free jazz con l'elettronica - ma anche arricchendolo di fantasiosi elementi extramusicali: coreografie coloratissime, costumi, danze esotiche, e soprattutto leggende. Nelle interviste,...

Il jazz è stato spesso definito l'unica forma originale di arte americana o la musica del ventesimo secolo per eccellenza, eppure, malgrado questi appellativi trionfali, si può dire che il jazz sia rimasto anche una delle forme di espressione più spesso fraintese. Nato come musica etnica, si è progressivamente spostato al centro della scena culturale diventando la musica americana più popolare, per trasformarsi subito dopo in avanguardia, di n...

Crossovers Essays on Race, Music, and American Culture John Szwed "In this collection of thirty-one short articles, essays, and reviews written over a thirty-six-year period, John Szwed consistently displays the extraordinary imagination and ingenuity that have made him one of the most respected scholars in African-American and Afro-diasporic Studies. Crossovers is both a revealing intellectual history of Szwed's development as a scholar and ...

Jazz 101 makes jazz, with all its intricacies of artistry and vast array of forms, accessible to readers in Szwed's fluid, entertaining prose. John F. Szwed is currently a professor of music, anthropology, African and African-American studies, and American studies at Yale University. He has written seven books on music and African-American culture. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship.

Jazz 101 makes jazz, with all its intricacies of artistry and vast array of forms, accessible to readers through Szwed's fluid, entertaining prose. Infinitely readable and highly entertaining, "Jazz 101 is a vital tool in understanding and appreciating jazz.

Jazz 101 makes jazz, with all its intricacies of artistry and vast array of forms, accessible to readers through Szwed's fluid, entertaining prose. Infinitely readable and highly entertaining, "Jazz 101 is a vital tool in understanding and appreciating jazz.

Musical genius, visionary artist, enigma -- more than ten years after his death, Miles Davis still looms large as a cultural icon. In this, the first new biography since Davis' death, John Szwed draws on various archives and never-before-published interviews with those who knew him to produce the richest and most revealing portrait of Miles Davis to date. The shy son of a dentist from Illinois, Miles Dewey Davis III would go through several tr...

Noted anthropologist, critic, and musical scholar John F. Szwed takes readers on a tour of the tangled history of jazz and explores how it developed from ethnic music to become America's most popular style and then part of the avant garde in less than 50 years.