Jazz heritage / Martin Williams.
- Title
- Jazz heritage / Martin Williams.
- Published by
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 253 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Jazz Heritage brings together twenty years' of reviews, musicians' profiles, and critical essays by the renowned critic Martin Williams. This companion volume to the prize-winning The Jazz Tradition includes profiles of great performers at work in studios and clubs, "liner notes" for many classic recordings, and Williams's acclaimed critical essays on the artistry of Charlie Parker, Cecil Taylor, Thelonious Monk, Ella Fitzgerald, and others. Consistently eye-opening and original, these pieces are essential reading for jazz musicians, students, scholars, and fans.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Contents
- Comments and questions -- Musicians at work -- Annotations -- Critics, criticism, and scholarship.
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [v]) and index.
- Processing action (note)
- committed to retain