Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life

Marsalis, Wynton; Ward, Geoffrey

ISBN 10: 1400060788 / ISBN 13: 9781400060788

Editore: Random House, 2008

Codice articolo 1400060788-4-35072032

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning musician offers his own take on jazz music as he discusses the secrets of listening to jazz, the different styles of various jazz musicians, its improvisational principles, and its influence on modern life and on one's view of the world around. 15,000 first printing.

Informazioni sull'autore: Wynton Marsalis, the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, musician, educator, and composer, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and received his first trumpet from renowned musician Al Hirt at the age of six. Marsalis has won nine Grammy Awards, in both jazz and classical categories, and is the only artist to have won Grammy Awards in five consecutive years, from 1983 to 1987. In 1997, Marsalis’s oratorio on slavery and freedom, Blood on the Fields, became the first and, to date, only jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize in music.

Geoffrey C. Ward, a historian, screenwriter, and former editor of American Heritage, is the bestselling author of many books, including The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945, Jazz: A History of America’s Music, and A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, which won a National Critics Circle Award.

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Titolo: Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change...
Casa editrice: Random House
Data di pubblicazione: 2008
Legatura: hardcover
Condizione: Fair