Horace Mungin

Broschiertes Buch

Swing, Hard Bop, Bop & Bebop

Beschreibung

The bebop era was a period in time where African descendants took European musical instruments and bent them to their well so that these European instruments told the story of African Americans in a uniquely African American voice. In Swing, Hard Bop, Bop & Bebop you will find the musical history of over 60 of the greatest jazz artists of swing and bebop music ever assembled. Here you'll find delicate facts about the lives of these great men and women of jazz; where and when they were born, where they went to school, how they got started playing an instrument or singing, the trials and tribulations of their lives - but more - tributes are also paid to the venues and clubs where bebop was featured; places like Minton's Playhouse where Thelonious Monk was in the house band and where bebop was invented, Birdland, named for Charlie (YardBird) Parker, one of the creators of bebop, and even the Jazz Mobile that brought popular jazz bands to New York City's jazz fans in Harlem free of charge.

Autor

Horace Mungin grew up in San Juan Hill, in New York City. It is a neighborhood with a long involvement in the creation, celebration and unconventional embracing of music - jazz music - and Thelonious Monk lived there. The young boys on the basketball court heard Monk and Charlie Rouse rehearsing live some Saturday mornings as their music sailed from Monk's open window at 238 West 63rd Street over to the basketball court around the corner and they often saw jazz musicians in the neighborhood on their way to Monk's crib. Other teens collected baseball cards and kept up on hit/run statistics; Mungin's clique collected jazz facts; what musicians were in town and who was at Birdland, and who was playing Grant's Tomb on the Jazz Mobile. They knew the list of sidemen; they knew who played bass or drums with which major headliner. Mungin has turned that experience and a life-time of collecting jazz music and jazz facts into a series of succinct biographical guides of swing and bebop artists for all jazz fans to savor.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: YBR Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 138
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 184g
• ISBN-13: 9780998058276
• ISBN-10: 0998058270
• Artikelnr.: 60654491