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Goodbyes and other messages : a journal of jazz, 1981-1990 / Whitney Balliett.

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"Whitney Balliett's new book contains many of the shorter pieces he has done for The New Yorker during the past ten years. Balliett gives brilliant final summings-up of many of the irreplaceable musicians who died in the eighties, among them Count Basie, Earl Hines, Thelonious Monk, Buddy...

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Main Author: Balliett, Whitney
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.
Subjects:
Jazz > History and criticism.
Jazz > New York (State) > New York > 1981-1990 > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • 1981
  • The new red rover trio ; Down the river (kool jazz festival) ; New bird (Charlie Parker) ; Duke Ellington ; Reunion (modern jazz quartet)
  • 1982
  • Monk (Thelonious Monk) ; Sonny Greer ; Dizzy Gillespie and Bill Coleman ; Good tidings (old and new dreams) ; Teddy Wilson ; King again (Frank Sinatra) ; Bunny Berigan ; Otis Ferguson ; Making do (kool jazz festival)
  • 1983
  • Old wine, new bottles (Warren Vache) ; Earl Hines and Peck Kelley ; Whiz kid (Wynton Marsalis) ; "The sound of jazz" ; Fauntleroy and the brute (Ben Webster)
  • 1984
  • Danger dancing all around (Louis Armstrong) ; Michel Petrucciani and Paul Whiteman ; Like a lilt (Count Basie) ; Morton monologue ; The blue notes ; Vic (Vic Dickenson)
  • 1985
  • Classic jazz quartet; David Murray's octet; and Zoot Sims and Al Cohn ; The Mulligan sextet and Paul Gonsalves ; Cootie Williams and Jo Jones ; Romantic agony (Bill Evans) ; Peaked (kool jazz festival) ; Mingus at work
  • 1986
  • Basie slips by ; American jazz orchestra and the leaders ; The big bands ; B.G.- and Big Sid ; From Joplin to Goodman, and slightly beyond
  • 1987
  • The keynotes ; Traps, the drum wonder (Buddy Rich) ; John Hammond and Dick Wellstood ; Ellington slips by
  • 1988
  • Cruising ; Jimmy Knepper, Peggy, and the Duke ; Stephane Grappelli and Warne Marsh
  • 1989
  • The swing era ; Max (Max Gordon) ; Mixed blessings (Grove's) ; Mingus regained ; A hostile land (Roy Eldridge) ; Goodbye, Michael (Michael Moore and Gene Bertoncini) ; Miles
  • 1990
  • Max and Kit (Max Roach and Kit Fitzgerald) ; Keepers of the flame (Tommy Flanagan and Errol Garner) ; Imagining music (jazz fiction) ; Giants (Sarah Vaughan and Art Tatum) ; The commodores (Milt Gabler)

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