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A dictionary for the modern clarinetist
\"In A Dictionary for the Modern Clarinet, scholar and musician Jane Ellsworth offers lovers of the clarinet the premiere reference book for information about this remarkable instrument. Containing over 400 terms, Ellsworth covers the clarinet's history (including both modern and historical instruments, common and rare), acoustics, construction, fingering systems and mechanisms, and techniques, as well as its more important performers, makers, and scholars\"--Provided by publisher.
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Liffey Green Danube Blue
Liffey Green, Danube Blue is the remarkable account of Laszlo Gede, a Hungarian musician who made Ireland his home in 1969. His story begins in Hungary during the First World War, enduring poverty and hardship, and charts his rise to clarinettist in the State Opera House Orchestra. Between the wars Budapest was an exhilarating place for Laszlo, thrilling audiences with his Goldwin Gede swing band in its celebrated cafe society. The Second World War saw him playing in military bands and miraculously avoided being sent to the Front in 1944, while also involved in resistance work. The period was also marked by his two short marriages. Following his imprisonment by the postwar communist authorities, he escaped across the border to Austria along with his third wife during the Hungarian Uprising of 1956.From Austria he settled in Johannesburg and joined the South African Broadcasting Corporation Orchestra. The apartheid violence during the 1960s however led to another move - this time to Ireland. When his musical career was cut short in his late fifties, he sought other ways to earn a living in Dublin - as craftsman, landlord, businessman, taxi driver and engineer. A born survivor, Laszlo could turn every setback to his advantage, while doing his best to help others. Grief at the death of his wife Iren from cancer was soon replaced by joy when he married her nurse Eibhlin Mac Maighistir in 1988. Ever-resourceful with a huge capacity for work, his brain whirred endlessly until the end. This book is her tribute to a man who combined talent with ingenuity and altruism.
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A dictionary for the modern clarinetist
Titles in Dictionaries for the Modern Musician series offer both the novice and the advanced artist key information designed to convey the field of study and performance for a major instrument or instrument class, as well as the workings of musicians in areas from conducting to composing. Unlike other encyclopedic works, contributions to this series focus primarily on the knowledge required by the contemporary musical student or performer. Each dictionary covers topics from instrument parts to playing technique and major works to key figures. A must-have for any musician’s personal library! The clarinet has played an important role in all kinds of music, ranging from classical to jazz to the traditional music of varying ethnicities and traditions. A beloved band instrument to thousands of school children, the clarinet is also capable of capturing some of the most sublime musical moments in the hands of professional artists. It has found a home in any number of venues, from the great symphonic concert halls to local jazz clubs, from the streets of New Orleans to the film studios of Hollywood. In A Dictionary for the Modern Clarinet, scholar and musician Jane Ellsworth offers lovers of the clarinet the premiere reference book for information about this remarkable instrument. Containing over 400 terms, Ellsworth covers the clarinet's history (including both modern and historical instruments, common and rare), acoustics, construction, fingering systems and mechanisms, and techniques, as well as its more important performers, makers, and scholars. A Dictionary for the Modern Clarinetist will delight clarinet aficionados at all levels. For knowledgeable professionals it will serve as a quick and handy reference guide, useful in the high school or college library and the home teaching studio alike; students and amateurs will find it accessible and full of fascinating information about the world of the clarinet.
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\BG\ as Longhair Disc Jockey: The 1950 \Benny Goodman Music Festival\
One of the more obscure corners of Benny Goodman's 60-year career in the media was as host of a classical music program for WNEW. At first glance unimportant musically, it did serve to publicize his \"credentials\" as an authority at a time when he was devoting more attention to classical repertoire in studies, rehearsals and concerts--despite the LP release and tremendous commercial success of \"The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert.\" From the 1960s to the 1980s, all that was known about this series was based on two records given by Benny Goodman to his discographer and friend, D. Russell Connor. These discs contained a set of spot ads for the series and voice tracks for programs 1 through 6 of the show. Connor credited this material to the \"spring of 1951,\" likely based on the recording date of one piece of music used in conjunction with one program on the disc.
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Doc
Autobiography of jazz elder statesman Frank
“Doc” Adams, highlighting his role in Birmingham,
Alabama’s, historic jazz scene and tracing his personal
adventure that parallels, in many ways, the story and spirit of
jazz itself.
Doc tells the story of an accomplished jazz master,
from his musical apprenticeship under John T.
“Fess” Whatley and his time touring with Sun Ra and
Duke Ellington to his own inspiring work as an educator and
bandleader.
Central to this narrative is the often-overlooked story of
Birmingham’s unique jazz tradition and community. From
the very beginnings of jazz, Birmingham was home to an active
network of jazz practitioners and a remarkable system of jazz
apprenticeship rooted in the city’s segregated schools.
Birmingham musicians spread across the country to populate the
sidelines of the nation’s bestknown bands. Local
musicians, like Erskine Hawkins and members of his celebrated
orchestra, returned home heroes. Frank “Doc” Adams
explores, through first-hand experience, the history of this
community, introducing readers to a large and colorful cast of
characters—including “Fess” Whatley, the
legendary “maker of musicians” who trained legions
of Birmingham players and made a significant mark on the larger
history of jazz. Adams’s interactions with the young Sun
Ra, meanwhile, reveal life-changing lessons from one of
American music’s most innovative personalities.
Along the way, Adams reflects on his notable family,
including his father, Oscar, editor of the
Birmingham Reporter and an outspoken civic leader in
the African American community, and Adams’s brother,
Oscar Jr., who would become Alabama’s first black supreme
court justice. Adams’s story offers a valuable window
into the world of Birmingham’s black middle class in the
days before the civil rights movement and integration.
Throughout, Adams demonstrates the ways in which jazz
professionalism became a source of pride within this community,
and he offers his thoughts on the continued relevance of jazz
education in the twenty-first century.
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L'improvisation libre à l'épreuve du temps. Logiques de travail et dynamiques créatives d'un duo d'improvisateurs
While free improvisation is often thought of as a forum for singular and short-lived musical encounters, long-lasting groups and collaborations that span many years are not uncommon in the world of free improvisation. By studying the case of a duo of improvisers composed of the pianist Ève Risser and the clarinetist Joris Rühl, this paper sheds light upon the creative dynamics of such a long-term collaboration by specifying how musicians negotiate between the need to construct a shared and stable collective identity, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the requirements of improvisation understood as spontaneous action. [Publication abstract]
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That's Got 'Em
William C. Sweatman (1882-1961) is one of the most truly important, yet unheralded, African American musicians involved in the transition of ragtime into jazz in the early twentieth century. InThat's Got 'Em!, Mark Berresford tracks this energetic pioneer over a seven-decade career. His talent transformed every genre of black music before the advent of rock and roll--\"pickaninny\" bands, minstrelsy, circus sideshows, vaudeville (both black and white), night clubs, and cabarets. Sweatman was the first African American musician to be offered a long-term recording contract, and he dazzled listeners with jazz clarinet solos before the Original Dixieland Jazz Band's so-called \"first jazz-records.\"
Sweatman toured the vaudeville circuit for over twenty years and presented African American music to white music lovers without resorting to the hitherto obligatory \"plantation\" costumes and blackface makeup. His bands were a fertile breeding ground of young jazz talent, featuring such future stars as Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins, and Jimmie Lunceford. Sweatman subsequently played pioneering roles in radio and recording production. His high profile and sterling reputation in both the black and white entertainment communities made him a natural choice for administering the estate of Scott Joplin and other notable black performances and composers.
That's Got 'Em!is the first full-length biography of this pivotal figure in black popular culture, providing a compelling account of his life and times.
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