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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Beal, Amy C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2011]
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."