The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945

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Overview

Here is the book jazz lovers have eagerly awaited, the second volume of Gunther Schuller's monumental The History of Jazz. When the first volume, Early Jazz, appeared two decades ago, it immediately established itself as one of the seminal works on American music. Nat Hentoff called it "a remarkable breakthrough in musical analysis of jazz," and Frank Conroy, in The New York Times Book Review, praised it as "definitive.... A remarkable book by any standard...unparalleled in the literature of jazz." It has been universally recognized as the basic musical analysis of jazz from its beginnings until 1933.

The Swing Era focuses on that extraordinary period in American musical history—1933 to 1945—when jazz was synonymous with America's popular music, its social dances and musical entertainment. The book's thorough scholarship, critical perceptions, and great love and respect for jazz puts this well-remembered era of American music into new and revealing perspective. It examines how the arrangements of Fletcher Henderson and Eddie Sauter—whom Schuller equates with Richard Strauss as "a master of harmonic modulation"—contributed to Benny Goodman's finest work...how Duke Ellington used the highly individualistic trombone trio of Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton, Juan Tizol, and Lawrence Brown to enrich his elegant compositions...how Billie Holiday developed her horn-like instrumental approach to singing...and how the seminal compositions and arrangements of the long-forgotten John Nesbitt helped shape Swing Era styles through their influence on Gene Gifford and the famous Casa Loma Orchestra. Schuller also provides serious reappraisals of such often neglected jazz figures asCab Calloway, Henry "Red" Allen, Horace Henderson, Pee Wee Russell, and Joe Mooney.

Much of the book's focus is on the famous swing bands of the time, which were the essence of the Swing Era. There are the great black bands—Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Earl Hines, Andy Kirk, and the often superb but little known "territory bands"—and popular white bands like Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsie, Artie Shaw, and Woody Herman, plus the first serious critical assessment of that most famous of Swing Era bandleaders, Glenn Miller. There are incisive portraits of the great musical soloists—such as Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Bunny Berigan, and Jack Teagarden—and such singers as Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, and Helen Forest.

The book jazz lovers have eagerly awaited, a major event in the music world, the second volume of Gunther Sculler's monumental The History of Jazz.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780195071405
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Publication date: 9/28/2005
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 944
  • Sales rank: 881,621
  • Lexile: 1500L (what's this?)
  • Series: History of Jazz Series, #1
  • Product dimensions: 9.25 (w) x 6.06 (h) x 1.44 (d)

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Gunther Schuller began his professional career in 1943, at age seventeen, when he played French horn with the Cincinnati Symphony and later served as first horn in the Metropolitan Opera. A prominent American composer, he has written a wide range of orchestral and chamber music, as well as jazz compositions. He coined the phrase "Third Stream" to indicate music that fuses concert music and jazz. As an educator, he was associated with the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood for over twenty years, mostly as its Artistic Director, and he was President of the New England Conservatory of Music from 1967 to 1977. He has published three previous books, Horn Technique (1962), Musings (1986), and Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development (1968). And he has been a guest conductor with major orchestras throughout North America and Europe.

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