Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation

Auteur(s) : Reich, Howard (1954-....)  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : Let freedom swing [Texte imprimé] : collected writings on jazz, blues, and gospel / Howard Reich ; foreword by Ellis L. Marsalis, Jr.

Publication : Evanston, [Illinois] : Northwestern university press, 2010

Description matérielle : xix, 390 pages ; 23 cm

Note(s) : Collected articles, previously published
Howard Reich's writings on jazz have captured the music's spirit of fearless spontaneity and soulful lyricism. Let Freedom Swing showcases the best of these writings from the last quarter century. Each section of Let Freedom Swing is a suite, focusing on people, a place, or a scene. Reich gives new life to the standards with his profiles and elegies for such giants as Gershwin, Ellington, and Sinatra, while also helping to introduce readers to the younger voices that continue to revitalize the jazz scene. His open-mindedness makes Reich a particularly astute observer of the experimental and new, from Ornette Coleman to Chicago experimentalist Ken Vandermark. And his observations about street music open the ears of the reader to the songs of everyday life. Reich's fearlessness is evident in his writing about daunting subjects, such as the New Orleans music scene after Katrina, the lost legacy of jazz in Panama, and the complicated legacy of "race music" in America. Howard Reich combines a deep enthusiasm for music, a breadth of knowledge, and an ability to share his world with his readers, and Let Freedom Swing is essential reading for anyone interested in the continuing vitality of jazz, gospel, blues, and American music in general

Autre(s) auteur(s) : Marsalis, Ellis (1934-2020). Préfacier  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Sujet(s) : Jazz  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Musiciens de jazz -- Appréciation  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Indice(s) Dewey :  781.650 9 (23e éd.) = Jazz - Histoire  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780810127050. - ISBN 0810127059

Identifiant de la notice  : ark:/12148/cb455355634

Notice n° :  FRBNF45535563 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)

Table des matières : Foreword / Ellis L Marsalis Jr ; Preface ; Acknowledgments ; 1: Born On The South Side: Exploring Chicago Gospel, Jazz, And Blues-Then And Now (in three parts) ; Can music save the church that gave birth to gospel? ; Drill sergeant of DuSable ; Faded blues ; 2: Street Scenes: Music Bubbling Up From The Pavement ; St John the saxist ; Groovable feast ; In the home of jazz, swing definitely not the thing ; Heavenly choir ; Night school ; 3: Havana's Pulse: At The Nexus Of Afro-Cuban Jazz ; Homegrown virtuosos ; "I may never get to the heart of jazz" ; Link to the past: Compay Segundo upholds the traditions of a more romantic era ; Back in the swing: the spotlight is finally reaching an early master of Afro-Cuban jazz ; Latin evolution: the remarkable Cachao is the real mambo king ; Sound architect: Buena Vista's unsung hero brings his band to Chicago ; 4: Musings On Satchmo: Behind The Famous Facade (in two parts) ; Jazz giant's private views show anger behind smile ; Thoroughly human side of a jazz virtuoso ; 5: Crisis Of Culture In New Orleans: The Aftermath Of Hurricane Katrina (in four parts) ; Battered by Katrina ; Long march back ; Treasures of music lovers now just so much debris ; Struggle to reclaim threads of the past ; 6: Ellington's Legacy: Grasping An Enormous Oeuvre ; Maestro's mystique ; Fans recover Ellington's lost musical ; Silent for thirty-five years, Ellington's restored musical celebrates black culture, composer's genius ; Lost classics ; Unknown Ellington ; 7: Sinatra Songs: Listening Anew To The Voice ; Bouquet for Sinatra ; Frank Sinatra: the virtuoso ; Memory of all that ; 8: Sound of surprise: unexpected developments in jazz ; Let freedom swing ; Measure of Jazz ; Completely hot: Live at the Plugged Nickel ; Maturity isn't the right key in today's jazz ; Landmark blues opera De Organizer powerfully reborn ; Lady has her say ; 9: Gershwin Reconsidered: Assessing America's Quintessential Composer, A Century Later ; Bittersweet rhapsody ; Gershwin at one hundred ; Porgy and Bess ; 10: Race Music: Crossing The Color Line ; n Sound ; "It took our minds off of the bad things" ; Coming to America ; Anniversary tune ; "Strange fruit": the song too painful to sing ; 11: Chicago Radicals: The Alluring Eccentrics Of Chicago Jazz ; Ragtime blues: Reginald Robinson ; Patricia Barber has built her career defying conventions ; Jazzman: Kurt Elling ; Jazz lovers are beating a path to Fred Anderson and his Velvet Lounge ; Chicago jazzman among "genius grant" winners: Ken Vandermark ; 12: Profiles In Jazz: Major Voices Speak ; Herbie's blues ; Nobody knows the trouble she's seen: Dee Dee Bridgewater ; Ornette Coleman still blazing a musical trail ; Last diva: Lena Horne ; Von Freeman is Chicago jazz history ; 13: Panama's Vanished Music: Searching For The Missing Link Of Jazz ; n Panama (in three parts) ; Culture with a lost past ; "I've got to go back home" ; Falling on deaf ears ; 14: Farewells: Final Parting From The Masters ; Legendary farewell: Lionel Hampton ; Sounding the trumpet: Miles Davis ; Underrated legend: Ella Fitzgerald ; Free-form life: Sun Ra ; Favors's spirit will live on through music ; Spirit of Dorsey's songs fills his "home-going."