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Cover: 9780190653903 | Rabbit's Blues | The Life and Music of Johnny Hodges | Con Chapman

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Beschreibung

In his eulogy of saxophonist Johnny Hodges (1907-70), Duke Ellington ended with the words, "Never the world's most highly animated showman or greatest stage personality, but a tone so beautiful it sometimes brought tears to the eyesthis was Johnny Hodges. This is Johnny Hodges." Hodges' unforgettable tone resonated throughout the jazz world over the greater part of the twentieth century. Benny Goodman described Hodges as "by far the greatest man on alto sax that I ever heard," and Charlie Parker compared him to Lily Pons, the operatic soprano. As a teenager, Hodges developed his playing style by imitating Sidney Bechet, the New Orleans soprano sax player, then honed it in late-night cutting sessions in New York and a succession of bands lead by Chick Webb, Willie "The Lion" Smith, and Luckey Roberts. In 1928 he joined Duke Ellington, beginning an association that would continue, with one interruption, until Hodges' death. Hodges' celebrated technique and silky tone marked him then, and still today, as one of the most important and influential saxophone players in the history of jazz. As the first ever biography on Johnny Hodges, Rabbit's Blues details his place as one of the premier artists of the alto sax in jazz history, and his role as co-composer with Ellington.

Über den Autor

Con Chapman's work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Boston Globe and The Christian Science Monitor, and his writings on jazz have appeared in The American Bystander, The Boston Herald and Brilliant Corners. He is the author of two novels, thirty-two stage plays, fifty books of humor, and The Year of the Gerbil, a history of the 1978 Red Sox-Yankees pennant race.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Epigraph

Prologue

1. A Sax is Born

2. Young Man With a Sax

3. His Tone

4. Scuffling in New York

5. The Competition

6. The Partnership Begins

7. Women and Children

8. Outside the Ellington Constellation: 30's and 40's

9. The Small Groups

10. Swee' Pea

11. Blanton, Webster and the Forties

12. Food and Drink

13. The Coming of Bird

14. The Rabbit Strays

15. The Rabbit Returns

16. Outside the Ellington Constellation: 50's and 60's

17. The Quality of Song

18. Lagomorphology

19. The Blues

20. The Out Chorus

Epilogue

Bibliography

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Genre:	Importe , Musik
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Allg. Handbücher & Lexika
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Buch Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9780190653903
ISBN-10:	0190653906
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Chapman, Con
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press Inc
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
Maße:	241 x 164 x 27 mm
Von/Mit:	Con Chapman
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.11.2019
Gewicht:	0,501 kg