Blowing on the changes
Subtitle: the art of the jazz horn players
By: Leslie Gourse.
Series: The art of jazz
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780531113578
Subjects: Jazz musicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature; Wind instrument players -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature; Jazz -- History and criticism -- Juvenile literature; Musicians; Jazz -- History and criticism
Description: Introduces some of the most famous jazz horn players, focusing on trumpet and saxophone players.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-140) and index.
Table of contents: title: Louis "Pops" Armstrong blows on the changes; title: Louis Armstrong thrills and influences his whole generation; title: Other great Swing Era horn players; title: More great reed and brass players in the big bands; title: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie "Bird" Parker, and the bebop revolution; title: The orbit of Miles Davis; title: Other important horn players of the 1950s and 1960s; title: John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy; title: Ornette Coleman, free jazz, and jazz-rock fusion; title: A jazz renaissance.