A Much-revered Icon Of Jazz, Dave Brubeck, At Seventy-five Years Of Age, Is Still Composing, Recording, Touring, And Performing. He Is, As Doug Ramsey Calls Him, One Of The Most Celebrated And Successful Jazz Musicians Of All Time. It's About Time, Fred Hall's Biography, Explores The Many Influences On Brubeck's Life And Music: His Youth On A Cattle Ranch In The Foothills Of The Sierras; A Stint In Europe With Patton's Army During World War Ii; The Development Of The West Coast Jazz Scene And The Rise Of The Dave Brubeck Quartet; Musical Relationships With Paul Desmond, Eugene Wright, Joe Morello, And Many More Jazz Greats; His Phenomenal Experiments With Polytonality And Polyrhythm; His Fifty-three-year Marriage To Iola, Manager, Collaborator, And Mother Of Their Six Children; And Important Career Breakthroughs, Such As The First-ever Million-selling Jazz Single, Take Five. Including An Annotated Discography, It's About Time Is Much More Than An Upbeat Examination Of The Brubeck Phenomenon. It Is Also A Penetrating View Of The Culture, The Music, The Musicians, The Recording Industry, And Race Relations Of The Country And The Century That Gave Birth To Jazz.--jacket. Fred M. Hall ; With A Foreword By Gene Lees. Includes Discography (p.165-174) And Index.

ia/itsabouttimedave00hall.pdf

Fred Hall; Gene Lees

Fred M. Hall

United States, United States of America

Fayetteville, United States, 1996

Fayetteville, Alaska, 1996

1St Edition, 1996

New Edition, 1996

类型: 图书

出版日期: 2015.07

出版社: University of Arkansas Press

出版日期: 1996.02

页码: 182

开本: 2.50

价格: 9.1 x 5.7 x 0.8 inches

Includes discography (p. 165-174) and index.

subject: Brubeck, Dave; Brubeck, Dave; Jazz musicians; Jazz

contributor: Internet Archive

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unit_name: Internet Archive

topic: Brubeck, Dave; Brubeck, Dave; Jazz musicians; Jazz

Type: 英文图书

Bookmarks:
1. (p1) Acknowledgments
2. (p2) Foreword
3. (p3) One Time to Begin
4. (p4) Two Time to Learn
5. (p5) Three Time for War
6. (p6) Four Time for New Beginnings
7. (p7) Five Time at Turk and Hyde
8. (p8) Six Time for the Big Time
9. (p9) Seven Time for the Rest of the World
10. (p10) Eight Time for Compatriots: I
11. (p11) Nine Time for Family
12. (p12) Ten Time for Compatriots: II
13. (p13) Eleven Time to Expand Horizons
14. (p14) Twelve Time for Reflection
15. (p15) Discography
16. (p16) Index
17. (p17) Index of Works Mentioned

theme: Brubeck, Dave; Brubeck, Dave; Jazz musicians; Jazz

<p>A much-revered icon of jazz, Dave Brubeck, at seventy-five years of age, is still composing, recording, touring, and performing. He is, as Doug Ramsey calls him, one of the most celebrated and successful jazz musicians of all time. It's About Time, Fred Hall's biography, explores the many influences on Brubeck's life and music: his youth on a cattle ranch in the foothills of the Sierras; a stint in Europe with Patton's army during World War II; the development of the West Coast jazz scene and the rise of the Dave Brubeck Quartet; musical relationships with Paul Desmond, Eugene Wright, Joe Morello, and many more jazz greats; his phenomenal experiments with polytonality and polyrhythm; his fifty-three-year marriage to Iola, manager, collaborator, and mother of their six children; and important career breakthroughs, such as the first-ever million-selling jazz single, Take Five. Including an annotated discography, It's About Time is much more than an upbeat examination of the Brubeck phenomenon. It is also a penetrating view of the culture, the music, the musicians, the recording industry, and race relations of the country and the century that gave birth to jazz.</p> <h3>Publishers Weekly</h3> <p>Known for his fertile composing, frenetic time signatures and yen for experimentation, jazz artist Brubeck (now 75) has nonetheless had an upward struggle. His stylings were not in keeping with the times, and author Hall does a fine job of portraying Brubeck's plod from gig to gig in order to keep his ever-growing family afloat. Hall also nicely records Brubeck's struggles to ``get his still evolving, polytonal, polyrhythm but not-bop music accepted in the jazz community and to make it part of the American musical mainstream.'' Brubeck's true artistry took some time to reach public recognition, and Hall takes the reader on a somewhat convoluted journey from the pianist's days as ``a lanky, bright-eyed sixteen year old'' cowboy to days spent composing grand works with biblical themes. Hall introduces quite a menagerie of associates and hangers-on, such as Paul Desmond, Brubeck's musical partner who inexplicably deserted him at the most inopportune times, and eldest son Darius, a musical prodigy in his own right. But the biography is arranged by topic, not timeline, and so the narrative makes long chronological jumps, particularly in the later chapters. While Hall has an eye for telling detail (Brubeck ate cornflakes and canned peaches for days on end and now can't stand the stuff), he does not have an ear for the revealing quote. Interviews with the artist and his wife fail to make Brubeck's life come alive to the reader. More often than not, the author trafficks in the pedestrian rather than the controversial. Photos. (Jan.)</p>

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