[ebooks] Art of Turquoise by Mary Emmerling at Arts-Photography

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Ted Gioias History of Jazz has been universally hailed as a classic--acclaimed by jazz critics and fans around the world. Now Gioia brings his magnificent work completely up-to-date; drawing on the latest research and revisiting virtually every aspect of the music; past and present.Gioia tells the story of jazz as it had 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; Louis Armstrong; Duke Ellington at the Cotton Club; cool jazz greats such as Gerry Mulligan; Stan Getz; and Lester Young; Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespies advocacy of modern jazz in the 1940s; 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 current day. Gioia provides the reader with lively portraits of these and many other great musicians; intertwined with vibrant commentary on the music they created. He 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.