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Swing to bop : an oral history of the transition in jazz in the 1940s /

More than fifty major figures in jazz preserve for posterity their recollections of how jazz moved from the big band era in the late 1930s and 1940s into the modern jazz period.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gitler, Ira
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1987, ©1985.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Road 9
  • 2. Roots and Seeds 32
  • 3. Minton's and Monroe's 75
  • 4. Fifty-Second Street 118
  • 5. California 160
  • 6. Big-Band Bop 184
  • 7. The Bop Era 219
  • 8. End of Era 291.