{"product_id":"hot-jazz-and-jazz-dance-roger-pryor-dodge-collected-writings-19291964-9780195071856","title":"Hot Jazz and Jazz Dance: Roger Pryor Dodge: Collected Writings  1929-1964","description":"\u003cp\u003eLong before Martin Williams  Gene Lees  or Gunther Schuller  Roger Pryor Dodge was writing seriously about jazz. A ballet  vaudeville  and jazz dancer  Dodge turned his critical attention to the music in the 1920s  helping to build the respect jazz has long since achieved. Now  for the first time  the essays and reviews of one of Americas first great jazz critics has been collected in one volume. Hot Jazz and Jazz Dance gathers thirty years of Dodges writing  from 1929 to 1958  offering a remarkable chronicle of the changing music and one writers ever-growing appreciation of it. The classically trained Dodge came to jazz in the early 1920s; he quickly developed a love for the authentic  non-commercial sounds of Louis Armstrong  Duke Ellington  Jelly Roll Morton  and scores of now-forgotten musicians. In these essays  we share a highly personal yet professional encounter with the music--in a moving profile  for instance  of Bubber Miley (\"the greatest trumpeter in jazz history--in fact  the greatest musician of them all\")  who died of tuberculosis at age thirty. He ranges across the musical spectrum  from the Cuban sexteto to the blues of Lead Belly. Dodge was alsoa professional dancer  however  and this collection contains many of his articles on everything from mambo to Nijinsky (the author owned one of the largest and most important collections of photographs of the great dancers work  and donated it to the New York Public Library) to a short essay on the young Elvis Presley (\"without his having all the necessary elements that combine to make a great dancing talent  he does have the stance of a very great performer\"). In addition  this volume offers Dodges significant writing on classical music  including a piece on Baroque playing styles. Almost forgotten today  Roger Pryor Dodge was an essential force in making Americas music critics take hot jazz and jazz dance seriously. A must for any jazz fan or student of modern culture  this collection deftly captures Dodges excitement and critical insight.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45272615878709,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195071859","price":65.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195071856.jpg?v=1780482873","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/hot-jazz-and-jazz-dance-roger-pryor-dodge-collected-writings-19291964-9780195071856","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}