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Masters of jazz saxophone : [the story of the players and their music]
Title:
Masters of jazz saxophone : [the story of the players and their music]
Author:
Gelly, Dave.
Edition:
First British edition.
Publication Information:
London : Balaphon, [2000]

©2000
Physical Description:
224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm
General Note:
Subtitle from t.p. verso.
Language:
English
Contents:
The saxophone breaks through / Dave Gelly -- Coleman Hawkins / Loren Schoenberg -- Swinging out / Richard Cook -- Still swinging / Peter Vacher -- Lester Young / Dave Gelly -- Charlie Parker / Brian Priestley -- Bebop saxophones / Richard Palmer -- The cool sound / Alun Morgan -- Stan Getz & the brothers / Jim Tomlinson -- Honkers & screamers / Tony Russell -- Sonny Rollins / Richard Palmer -- The hard boppers / Ronald Atkins -- Soul saxophones / Keith Shadwick -- John Coltrane / Brian Priestley -- The modalists / Keith Shadwick.

Post-bop individualists / Ronald Atkins -- Ornette Coleman / Alyn Shipton -- Free jazz / Steve Day -- Michael Brecker / Mark Gilbert -- Fusion: switched-on saxophone / Mark Gilbert -- Crossover and smooth jazz / Kevin Alexander -- European voices / Michael Tucker -- The new swing / Dave Gelly -- Contemporary traditionalists / Frank Griffith -- The future of jazz saxophone / Mark Gilbert.
Added Author:
ISBN:
9780879306229
Format :
Book