Jazz and pop, youth and middle age like young

Jazz and pop, youth and middle age like young /

"Modern jazz and rock 'n' roll, both of which were once identified with youthful insurrection, have reached middle age. So have many longtime listeners - including Francis Davis, the peerless music and cultural critic for the Atlantic Monthly, who admits early in this new collection t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davis, Francis
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, ©2001.
Edition:1st Da Capo Press ed.
Subjects:
Jazz > History and citicism.
Jazz musicians
Table of Contents:
  • Advertisements for Myself: Introduction and Acknowledgments
  • Swing and Sensibility (Frank Sinatra)
  • The Great Hoagy (Hoagy Carmichael)
  • Not Singing Too Much (Dave Frishberg)
  • Billie Holiday, Cover Artist
  • Betty Carter, For Example
  • Bud's Bubble (Bud Powell)
  • The Sound of One Finger Snapping (Miles Davis and Kind of Blue)
  • Aftershocks (McCoy Tyner)
  • Taken: The True Story of an Alien Abduction (Sun Ra)
  • Rashaan, Rashaan (Rashaan Roland Kirk)
  • Inward (Walt Dickerson)
  • A to Z (Paul Bley)
  • Charlie Haden, Bass
  • ?Ornette (Ornette Coleman)
  • The 1970s, Religious and Circus (Wildflowers and Arthur Blythe)
  • Like Young (Joshua Redman and James Carter)
  • In His Father's House (Ravi Coltrane)
  • Leaving Behind a Trail (Dave Douglas)
  • Some Recordings (Ruby Braff, Duke Ellington, Chick Corea, Jackie McLean, Lee Konitz, Sam Rivers, Don Byron)
  • On State and Screen (Side Man, Sweet and Lowdown, Ken Burns's Jazz)
  • Tourist Point of View
  • Time Difference
  • Man Lost, Songs Found (Ted Hawkins)
  • Country vs. Western (Pee Wee King)
  • Elvis Presley's Double Consciousness
  • Beached (Brian Wilson)
  • Everybody's Composer (Burt Bacharach)
  • The Best Years of Our Lives (Bob Dylan)
  • Infamous (The Velvet Underground)
  • Victim Kitsch (Rent)
  • The Moral of the Story from the Guy Who Knows (Dion).

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