Carla Bley /
This is the first comprehensive treatment of the remarkable music and influence of Carla Bley, a highly innovative American jazz composer, pianist, organist, band leader, and activist. With fastidious attention to Bley's diverse compositions over the last fifty years spanning critical moments i...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2011]
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Colección: | American composers.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : "Like a mockingbird"
- Walking woman : Oakland, New York, Los Angeles, New York
- Sing me softly of the blues : Early short pieces and Songs without words
- Social studies : the Jazz Composers Guild and the Jazz Composers Orchestra
- "Mad at jazz" : A genuine Tong funeral
- Escalator over the hill : jazz opera as fusion
- Copyright royalties : New Music Distribution Service
- Big band theory : the Carla Bley Band and other projects
- The lone arranger : history and hilarity
- End of Vienna : fancy chamber music
- Dreams so real : "Jazz is really where my heart now lies."