Early twentieth-century brass idioms
Subtitle: art, jazz, and other popular traditions : proceedings of the international conference presented by the Institute of Jazz Studies of Rutgers University and the Historic Brass Society November 4-5, 2005
By: edited by Howard T. Weiner.
Contributors: Weiner, Howard T., 1952-; Rutgers University. Institute of Jazz Studies.; Historic Brass Society.
Series: Studies in jazz -- no. 58
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780810862456; 9780810862463
Subjects: Jazz -- Congresses; Brass instrument players -- Congresses; Brass band music -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, discography and index.
Table of contents: title: Trombone idiom in the twentieth century : classical, jazz and hybrid influences / Trevor Herbert; title: Who's on first, what's second, and where did they come from? : the social and musical textures of early jazz / Thomas Brothers; title: How the jazz artist practices / Jimmy Owens; title: Struttin' with some brass : African American transformations of the trumpet / Krin Gabbard; title: An interview with trumpet legends William Fielder and Joe Wilder / Ed Berger; title: Expanding parameters on brass bands in early New Orleans jazz / Bruce Boyd Raeburn; title: Performance practice techniques of the James Reese Europe Band / Reid Badger; title: Italian jazz trumpet style : American and European influences during fascism, 1920-1940 / Luca Cerchiari; title: "Like a string of pearls" : reflections on the role of brass instrumentalists in Jewish instrumental Klezmer music and the trope of "Jewish jazz" / Joel E. Rubin; title: The early career of Spiegle Willcox : influences to 1930 / Ralph T. Dudgeon and William Lane (discography); title: Louis Armstrong and the origins of jazz improvisation / Peter Ecklund; title: The blues and the uptown brass bands of New Orleans / Vic Hobson; title: Louis Armstrong, Bunk Johnson, and Jules Levy : the art of "tonation" / David Sager.