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Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Fullscreen ed.
Physical Desc
10 videodiscs (ca. 19 hrs.) : sd., col., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Episode 1. Jazz is born in New Orleans at the turn of the century emerging from several forms of music including ragtime, marching bands, work songs, spirituals, creole music, funeral parade music and above all, the blues. Musicians profiled here who advanced early jazz are Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, Freddie Keppard, and musicians of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band.
Episode 2. From 1917 through 1924, the "Jazz Age" begins with...
3) Free jazz
Author
Series
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
1981
Physical Desc
214 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The first notes of jazz hit Cape Cod in the very early days of the genre. Bournehurst-on-the-Canal hosted top bands, and emerging swing era dancers packed the hall. Cape Cod's "First Lady of Jazz," Marie Marcus, was a child prodigy in Boston and found some of her most important instruction in the art of stride piano during lessons with great pianist Fats Waller in New York. At the very tip of the Cape, the Atlantic House in Provincetown showcased...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by BMG Special Products
Pub. Date
℗2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This program profiles, with first-hand observation and historical detail, the pivotal people and places in American jazz. Includes archive footage of performances. Ella Fitzgerald ; Willie "The Lion" Smith ; Louis Armstrong, Jimmy Lunceford ; Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Gil Evans, The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, Charles Mingus, Sarah Vaughan,...
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