Jazz: An American Saga

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One thing we will make sure that of is that jazz was once invented in The united states.

From the small sunlit barns that dotted the Louisiana countryside around the turn of the century to the booming nightspots in New York in the 1920s, The united states has at all times been the home of jazz. But how did jazz get began? Who were its first musicians? And what was once it about The united states that made it the birthplace of this century’s greatest music?

Newbery Honor-winner and jazz critic James Lincoln Collier tackles these questions and others, tracing the history and evolution of jazz in The united states. Beginning with the African tribal music transported here by slaves, Collier reveals the roots of jazz in gospel and ragtime before launching into a discussion of Dixieland, swing, bebop, the cool school, free jazz, and fusion. Along the way, we meet the great personalities who shaped the music: giants like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, who brought jazz into the mainstream; mavericks like Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, who toyed with its sound and structure; and avant-gardists like Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane, who revolutionized and reinvented jazz.

In this vigorous, infrequently controversial photo-filled account, Collier shows us how jazz became an international craze, the entire at the same time as remaining as American as apple pie.

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