Rhythm-a-ning Jazz Tradition And Innovation

by Giddins, Gary

• ISBN13: 9780306809873
• ISBN10: 0306809877
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-19
• Publisher: Da Capo Press

Summary

In a companion to his collectionsRiding on a Blue NoteandFaces in the Crowd, Gary Giddins has assembled a mosaic of pieces that provide an essential guide to the jazz world. Moving with ease from sweeping surveys of jazz history to precise, vivid assessments of individual performers including Thelonius Monk, the Marsalis brothers, Ornette Coleman, and David Murray, Giddins demonstrates once again why he is lauded as "the best jazz critic now at work" (Newsweek).

Author Biography

Gary Giddins is a columnist for the Village Voice and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Visions of Jazz. He is also the author of a biography of Bing Crosby. His work has won numerous prizes, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, five ASCAP-Deems Taylor awards, and an American Book Award. He lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
Jaki Byard and the New Tolerance	3	(4)
Pick a Card, Any Card	7	(5)
How To Not Stuff a Jazz Classic	12	(5)
Jack Dejohnette Beats the Band	17	(3)
Moody's Moods Revisited	20	(3)
Something Else Again	23	(11)
Sarah Vaughan
Soulful	26	(3)
Sassing Ellington	29	(5)
Freedom Then and Now	34	(4)
The Trombone's Connected to the ...	38	(7)
Fifty Years of ``Body and Soul''	45	(8)
Teddy Wilson's Golden Oldies	53	(3)
Beyond Romance	56	(3)
Composers Ascendent	59	(4)
Big Noise from Missoula	63	(2)
Tony Bennett Without Fear	65	(3)
The Excitable Roy Eldridge	68	(5)
Lester Young Grows Deeper	73	(2)
Note: Andrew Cyrille Has a Band	75	(3)
Miles's Wiles	78	(7)
Blythemania	85	(3)
Shining Trumpet	88	(4)
Joe Turner, Unmoved Mover	92	(3)
The Egg in the Meatloaf	95	(6)
Songs Your Mother Never Sang	101	(5)
Art Pepper, 1926--1982	106	(2)
Sonny Stitt, 1924--1982	108	(11)
Woody Herman
Off the Road	111	(5)
A Fan's Fan	116	(3)
Clarinets on Top	119	(3)
Virtuoso Entertainment	122	(3)
Motor City Classicist	125	(3)
Stan Getz's Transfusion	128	(4)
Hard Again	132	(4)
The Jazz Singer	136	(3)
Gypsy Soul	139	(7)
Jolson's Greatest Heir	146	(6)
Kind of Miles	152	(4)
Wynton Marsalis and Other Neoclassical Lions	156	(5)
The Latest Scat	161	(5)
Return of the Organ Grinder	166	(2)
Technicolor Repertory	168	(3)
The Education of David Murray	171	(12)
Illinois Jacquet
Flying in Place	178	(3)
Jacquet Expands	181	(2)
Life after Death	183	(6)
School for Moderns	189	(3)
Gunslinger, Phase Two	192	(2)
Eclecticism: Ancient to the Future	194	(7)
Chilled Classics and the Real Thing	201	(6)
The Limits of Global Unity	207	(4)
Carmen on Holiday	211	(39)
Thelonious Monk
In Walked Monk	214	(6)
Rhythm-a-ning	220	(5)
Frank Sinatra
An Appreciation	225	(7)
For Collectors	232	(3)
Harmolodic Hoedown
Ornette's Coloring Book	235	(7)
Speaking in Thumbs	242	(8)
Not for Dancers Only	250	(9)
The Definitive Bill Harris	259	(3)
The Return of New Orleans	262	(5)
Euphoria	267	(3)
Orchestral Jazz	270	(9)
Afterword: An Orchestra is Born	279	(8)
Index	287