Let freedom swing
Subtitle: collected writings on jazz, blues, and gospel
By: Howard Reich.; foreword by Ellis L. Marsalis, Jr.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780810127050
Subjects: Jazz -- History and criticism; Jazz -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History and criticism; Jazz musicians; Blues (Music) -- History and criticism; Blues musicians; Gospel music -- History and criticism
Notes: Collected articles, previously published.
Table of contents: title: Born on the south side: exploring Chicago gospel, jazz, and blues, then and now (in three Parts); title: Can music save the church that gave birth to gospel?; title: The drill sergeant of DuSable; title: Faded blues; title: Street scenes: music bubbling up from the pavement; title: St. John the saxist; title: A groovable feast; title: In the home of jazz, swing definitely not the thing; title: Heavenly choir; title: Night school; title: Havana's pulse: at the nexus of Afro-Cuban jazz; title: Homegrown virtuosos; title: "I may never get to the heart of jazz"; title: Link to the past: Compay Segundo upholds the traditions of a more romantic era; title: Back in the swing: the spotlight is finally reaching an early master of Afro-Cuban jazz; title: Latin evolution: the remarkable Cachao is the real mambo king; title: Sound architect: Buena Vista's unsung hero brings his band to Chicago; title: Musings on Satchmo: behind the famous facade (in two parts); title: Jazz giant's private views show anger behind smile; title: The thoroughly human side of a jazz virtuoso; title: Crisis of culture in New Orleans: the aftermath of hurricane Katrina (in four parts); title: Battered by Katrina; title: The long march back; title: Treasures of music lovers now just so much debris; title: The struggle to reclaim threads of the past; title: Ellington's legacy: grasping an enormous oeuvre; title: Maestro's mystique; title: Fans recover Ellington's lost musical; title: Silent for thirty-five years, Ellington's restored musical celebrates black culture, composer's genius; title: Lost classics; title: The unknown Ellington; title: Sinatra songs: listening anew to the voice; title: A bouquet for Sinatra; title: Frank Sinatra: the virtuoso; title: The memory of all that...; title: "The sound of surprise": unexpected developments in jazz; title: Let freedom swing; title: The measure of jazz; title: Completely hot: live at the Plugged Nickel; title: Maturity isn't the right key in today's jazz; title: Landmark blues opera De organizer powerfully reborn; title: Lady has her say; title: Gershwin reconsidered: assessing America's quintessential composer, a century later; title: Bittersweet rhapsody; title: Gershwin at one hundred; title: Porgy and best; title: Race music: crossing the color line-in sound; title: "It took our minds off of the bad things"; title: Coming to America; title: Anniversary tune; title: "Strange fruit": the song too painful to sing; title: Chicago radicals: the alluring eccentrics of Chicago jazz; title: Ragtime blues: Reginald Robinson; title: Patricia Barber has built her career defying conventions; title: Jazzman: Kurt Elling; title: Jazz lovers are beating a path to Fred Anderson and his Velvet Lounge; title: Chicago jazzman among "genius grant" winners: Ken Vandermark; title: Profiles in jazz: major voices speak; title: Herbie's blues; title: Nobody knows the trouble she's seen: Dee Dee Bridgewater; title: Ornette Coleman still blazing a musical trail; title: The last diva: Lena Horne; title: Von Freeman is Chicago jazz history; title: Panama's vanished music: searching for the missing link of jazz-in Panama (in three parts); title: A culture with a lost past; title: "I've got to go back home"; title: Falling on deaf ears; title: Farewells: final parting from the masters; title: Legendary farewell: Lionel Hampton; title: Sounding the trumpet: Miles Davis; title: An underrated legend: Ella Fitzgerald; title: A free-form life: Sun Ra; title: Favors's spirit will live on through music; title: Spirit of Dorsey's songs fills his "home-going".