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Auteur(s) : Perchard, Tom (1976-....)
Titre(s) : Lee Morgan [Texte imprimé] : his life, music and culture / Tom Perchard
Publication : London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox Pub., 2006
Description matérielle : ix, 297 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Collection : Popular music history
Lien à la collection : Popular music history
Comprend : Introduction : Black Philadelphia ; Music and opportunity in Tioga ; Learning and
teaching, formal and informal ; Performance, competition and status in the "cool
world" ; The break : New York, Dizzy Gillespie and Blue Note records ; "Quick progress"
; Under Art Blakey's influence ; Life in the bebop business and the soul jazz style
; Blues truth, sound and identity ; Interlude : jazz criticism and race politics
in the early-1960s ; Symbolism, signification and the Sidewinder ; Decline and ascent
; Modes, changes and "The Beatles" ; Drug : politics and the end of hip ; Organisation
and protest ; Black culture between the national and the universal ; Teaching tradition
and change ; Conclusion : East 3rd Street.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-282) and index
"This is the first biography of the jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan (1938-72). He was a
prodigy: recruited to Dizzy Gillespie's big band while still a teenager, joining Art
Blakey's Jazz Messengers not long afterwards, by his early twenties Morgan had played
on four continents and dozens of albums. The trumpeter would go on to cultivate a
personal and highly influential style, and to make records - most notably The Sidewinder
- which would sell in numbers almost unheard of in jazz." ; "While what should have
been Morgan's most successful years were hampered by a heroin addiction, the ascendant
black liberation movement of the late sixties gave the musician a new, political impulse,
and he returned to the jazz scene to become a vociferous campaigner for black musicians'
rights and representation. But Morgan's personal life remained troubled, and during
a fight with his girlfriend at a New York club, he was shot and killed, aged thirty-three."
; "Although Lee Morgan lived and died in sensational style, the story told in this
book does not just stumble between stages, studios, bars and needles; such a narrative
could not do justice to the richness of the trumpeter's music, nor to the culture
from which it came. The events of Morgan's life are presented here not just as items
of biography, but also as points of departure for wider historical investigations
that aim to situate the musician and his contemporaries in changing aesthetic, social
and economic contexts. This biography draws on many original interviews with Morgan's
colleagues and friends, as well as extensive archival research and critical engagement
with the music itself."--BOOK JACKET
Sujet(s) : Morgan, Lee (1938-1972)
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Indice(s) Dewey :
788.921 65092 (23e éd.) = Trompettes - Jazz - Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 1845532058. - ISBN 9781845532055. - ISBN 9781845533823. - ISBN 1845533828 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42622174h
Notice n° :
FRBNF42622174
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