The History of Jazz

Here are the giants of jazz and the great moments of jazz history--Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington at the Cotton Club, cool jazz greats Gerry Mulligan and Lester Young, Charlie Parker's surgical precision of attack, Miles Davis at the Newport Jazz Festival, Pat Metheny's visionary extension of jazz-rock fusion, and the post-modernists of the Knitting Factory. Gioia provides the reader with lively portraits of these and many other great musicians, intertwined with vibrant ...