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Bud Powell was not only one of the greatest bebop pianists of all time, he stands as one of the twentieth century's most dynamic and fiercely adventurous musical minds. His expansive musicianship, riveting performances, and inventive compositions expanded the bebop idiom and pushed jazz musicians of all stripes to higher standards of performance. Yet Powell remains one of American music's most misunderstood figures, and the story of his exceptional talent is often overshadowed by his history of alcohol abuse, mental instability, and brutalization at the hands of white authorities. In this first extended study of the social significance of Powell's place in the American musical landscape, Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. shows how the pianist expanded his own artistic horizons and moved his chosen idiom into new realms. Illuminating and multi-layered, The Amazing Bud Powell centralizes Powell's contributions as it details the collision of two vibrant political economies: the discourses of art and the practice of blackness.

Jazz --- History and criticism. --- Powell, Bud --- Powell, Bud, --- Powell, Earl --- Criticism and interpretation. --- 20th century. --- african american biographies. --- african american studies. --- alcohol abuse. --- american music. --- art. --- artistic horizons. --- artists. --- bebop idiom. --- bebop. --- biography. --- black biographies. --- entertainment industry. --- exceptional talent. --- expansive musicianship. --- history of jazz music. --- history. --- inventive compositions. --- jazz music. --- jazz musicians biographies. --- mental health issues. --- misunderstood figures. --- music. --- musical genres. --- musical minds. --- musicians. --- pianist. --- riveting performances.

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Categorizing Sound addresses the relationship between categories of music and categories of people, particularly how certain ways of organizing sounds becomes integral to how we perceive ourselves and how we feel connected to some people and disconnected from others. Presenting a series of case studies ranging from race music and old-time music of the 1920s through country and R&B of the 1980s, David Brackett explores the processes by which genres are produced. Using in-depth archival research and sophisticated theorizing about how musical categories are defined, Brackett has produced a markedly original work.

Popular music --- Popular music genres --- Genres, Popular music --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects --- 1920s. --- 1980s. --- 20th century. --- archival research. --- auditory. --- case studies. --- folk music. --- foreign music. --- genres. --- hearing. --- jazz music. --- music genres. --- music production. --- music. --- musical categories. --- musicians. --- old time music. --- philosophy. --- pop music. --- popular music. --- race music. --- rock music. --- sonic. --- soul music. --- sound. --- swing music. --- theory. --- types of music.

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Floyd Levin, an award-winning jazz writer, has personally known many of the jazz greats who contributed to the music's colorful history. In this collection of his articles, published mostly in jazz magazines over a fifty-year period, Levin takes us into the nightclubs, the recording studios, the record companies, and, most compellingly, into the lives of the musicians who made the great moments of the traditional jazz and swing eras. Brilliantly weaving anecdotal material, primary research, and music analysis into every chapter, Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians is a gold mine of information on a rich segment of American popular music. This collection of articles begins with Levin's first published piece and includes several new articles that were inspired by his work on this compilation. The articles are organized thematically, beginning with a piece on Kid Ory's early recordings and ending with a newly written article about the campaign to put up a monument to Louis Armstrong in New Orleans. Along the way, Levin gives in-depth profiles of many well-known jazz legends, such as Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong, and many lesser-known figures who contributed greatly to the development of jazz. Extensively illustrated with previously unpublished photographs from Levin's personal collection, this wonderfully readable and extremely personal book is full of information that is not available elsewhere. Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians will be celebrated by jazz scholars and fans everywhere for the overview it provides of the music's evolution, and for the love of jazz it inspires on every page.

Jazz musicians --- Jazz --- History and criticism. --- american music. --- classical jazz. --- classical music. --- compilation. --- essay collection. --- jazz club. --- jazz magazine. --- jazz music. --- jazz musician. --- jazz musicians. --- louis armstrong. --- magazines. --- music history. --- music industry. --- musical genres. --- musicians. --- nightclub. --- popular culture. --- popular music. --- record companies. --- recording studio. --- swing music. --- western music.

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This fresh look at the neglected rhythm section in jazz ensembles shows that the improvisational interplay among drums, bass, and piano is just as innovative, complex, and spontaneous as the solo. Ingrid Monson juxtaposes musicians' talk and musical examples to ask how musicians go about "saying something" through music in a way that articulates identity, politics, and race. Through interviews with Jaki Byard, Richard Davis, Sir Roland Hanna, Billy Higgins, Cecil McBee, and others, she develops a perspective on jazz improvisation that has "interactiveness" at its core, in the creation of music through improvisational interaction, in the shaping of social communities and networks through music, and in the development of cultural meanings and ideologies that inform the interpretation of jazz in twentieth-century American cultural life. Replete with original musical transcriptions, this broad view of jazz improvisation and its emotional and cultural power will have a wide audience among jazz fans, ethnomusicologists, and anthropologists.

Jazz --- Improvisation (Music) --- Criticism and interpretation. --- ethnomusicology, musical techniques, jazz music, rhythm section, fresh look, ensembles, improvisational interplay, piano, drums, bass, innovative, complex, spontaneous, musicians talk, examples, saying something, race, politics, identity, cecil mcbee, billy higgins, sir roland hanna, richard davis, jaki byard, improvisation, interactiveness, tempo, timing, social communities, ideologies, 20th century, united states, african-american, musicology, anthropology, sociology, history.

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What, where, and when is jazz? To most of us jazz means small combos, made up mostly of men, performing improvisationally in urban club venues. But jazz has been through many changes in the decades since World War II, emerging in unexpected places and incorporating a wide range of new styles. In this engrossing new book, David Ake expands on the discussion he began in Jazz Cultures, lending his engaging, thoughtful, and stimulating perspective to post-1940's jazz. Ake investigates such issues as improvisational analysis, pedagogy, American exceptionalism, and sense of place in jazz. He uses provocative case studies to illustrate how some of the values ascribed to the postwar jazz culture are reflected in and fundamentally shaped by aspects of sound, location, and time.

Jazz --- Accordion and piano music (Jazz) --- Clarinet and piano music (Jazz) --- Cornet and piano music (Jazz) --- Double bass and piano music (Jazz) --- Jazz duets --- Jazz ensembles --- Jazz music --- Jazz nonets --- Jazz octets --- Jazz quartets --- Jazz quintets --- Jazz septets --- Jazz sextets --- Jazz trios --- Jive (Music) --- Saxophone and piano music (Jazz) --- Vibraphone and piano music (Jazz) --- Wind instrument and piano music (Jazz) --- Xylophone and piano music (Jazz) --- African Americans --- Music --- Third stream (Music) --- Washboard band music --- Social aspects. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Social aspects --- Coltrane, John --- Davis, Miles Dewey --- Jarrett, Keith --- Metheny, Pat[rick] --- Sex Mob (Jazz band) --- 20th century. --- american exceptionalism. --- artists. --- bebop. --- historical. --- improvisational music. --- jazz age. --- jazz culture. --- jazz historians. --- jazz music. --- jazz musicians. --- jazz scholars. --- jazz scholarship. --- jazz studies. --- jazz styles. --- jazz. --- music and culture. --- music historians. --- music history. --- music movements. --- music pedagogy. --- music venues. --- music. --- musicians. --- musicology. --- nonfiction. --- postwar america. --- retrospective. --- united states. --- urban clubs. --- world war ii. --- wwii.