{"product_id":"the-history-of-jazz","title":"The History of Jazz","description":"\u003cp\u003eJazz is the most colorful and varied art form in the world and it was born in one of the most colorful and varied cities  New Orleans. From the seed first planted by slave dances held in Congo Square and nurtured by early ensembles led by Buddy Belden and Joe \"King\" Oliver  jazz began its long winding odyssey across America and around the world  giving flower to a thousand different forms--swing  bebop  cool jazz  jazz-rock fusion--and a thousand great musicians. Now  in The History of Jazz  Ted Gioia tells the story of this music as it has never been told before  in a book that brilliantly portrays the legendary jazz players  the breakthrough styles  and the world in which it evolved. Here are the giants of jazz and the great moments of jazz history--Jelly Roll Morton (\"the worlds greatest hot tune writer\")  Louis Armstrong (whose O-keh recordings of the mid-1920s still stand as the most significant body of work that jazz has produced)  Duke Ellington at the Cotton Club  cool jazz greats such as Gerry Mulligan  Stan Getz  and Lester Young  Charlie Parkers surgical precision of attack  Miles Daviss 1955 performance at the Newport Jazz Festival  Ornette Colemans experiments with atonality  Pat Methenys visionary extension of jazz-rock fusion  the contemporary sounds of Wynton Marsalis  and the post-modernists of the Knitting Factory. Gioia provides the reader with lively portraits of these and many other great musicians  intertwined with vibrant commentary on the music they created. Gioia also evokes the many worlds of jazz  taking the reader to the swamp lands of the Mississippi Delta  the bawdy houses of New Orleans  the rent parties of Harlem  the speakeasies of Chicago during the Jazz Age  the after hours spots of corrupt Kansas city  the Cotton Club  the Savoy  and the other locales where the history of jazz was made. And as he traces the spread of this protean form  Gioia provides much insight into the social context in which the music was born. He shows for instance how the development of technology helped promote the growth of jazz--how ragtime blossomed hand-in-hand with the spread of parlor and player pianos  and how jazz rode the growing popularity of the record industry in the 1920s. We also discover how bebop grew out of the racial unrest of the 1940s and 50s  when black players  no longer content with being \"entertainers \" wanted to be recognized as practitioners of a serious musical form. Jazz is a chameleon art  delighting us with the ease and rapidity with which it changes colors. Now  in Ted Gioias The History of Jazz  we have at last a book that captures all these colors on one glorious palate. Knowledgeable  vibrant  and comprehensive  it is among the small group of books that can truly be called classics of jazz literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44984896782389,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195090810","price":34.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195090819.jpg?v=1770842518","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-history-of-jazz","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}