The Uncrowned King of Swing: Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz

Magee, Jeffrey

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0195340655 ISBN 13: 9780195340655

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2008

Fletcher Henderson (1897 - 1952) is a major figure in the history of jazz. He led the premier black jazz band of the 1920s and the early 1930s, and wrote the swing arrangements that helped make Benny Goodman the 'King of Swing'. The Uncrowned King of Swing is the first interpretive study of his music and career, using the full range of sources documenting his work.

Recensione:

This book first came out in hardback in 2005, but the intervening years have done nothing to diminish its status as the volume to turn to for anyone with an interest in bandleader/pianist Fletcher Henderson... (Nic Jones, All About Jazz)

L'autore:

Jeffrey Magee is a Professor and Chair of Musicology in the School of Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His writings on jazz, ragtime, and American popular song have appeared inAmerican Music, Lenox Avenue, International Dictionary of Black Composers, Musical Quarterly, theCambridge History of American Music, and the Journal of the American Musicological Society.