Resultados para "Jazz" en Compositores y músicos

Primera biografía en lengua castellana de la más grande cantante de jazz que transformó la canción popular norteamericana A Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996), The First Lady of Jazz, se la conoce y venera por habernos permitido gozar de una de las voces más portentosas, versátiles y amadas de todos los tiempos don del que dan fe sus cinco docenas de álbumes en estudio, un sinfín de grabaciones en directo y casi trescientos singles.

Beginning with his childhood growing up in Chicago’s Cabrini Green neighborhood, Ramsey Lewis recounts his memories of the music in his parents’ church and his early piano lessons. As he learned classical technique, Lewis also absorbed countless jazz records and heard gospel music weekly, finally becoming a performer himself in his teenage years. With his coauthor and collaborator, Aaron Cohen, Lewis describes his early steps in jazz from joining the Clefs in the ’50s, to eventually establishing the Ramsey Lewis Trio. This memoir provides an evocative tour of Lewis’s life.

Ascolta e rivivi la storia della mitica cantante americana. Un ritratto a tutto tondo di una delle grandi voci della musica! Da Valentina Mattarozzi, cantautrice bolognese da sempre appassionata di musica, danza, disegno e recitazione. Valentina ha all'attivo album e concerti, e naviga ogni giorno nelle acque profonde dello swing, del jazz, del blues e anche del pop.

Ascolta e rivivi la storia della mitica cantante americana. Un ritratto a tutto tondo di una delle grandi voci della musica. Da Valentina Mattarozzi, cantautrice bolognese da sempre appassionata di musica, danza, disegno e recitazione. Valentina ha all'attivo album e concerti, e naviga ogni giorno nelle acque profonde dello swing, del jazz, del blues e anche del pop. Quello di Ella Fitzgerald è un nome che compare in ogni libro di storia della musica.

Sophisticated Giant presents the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon (1923-1990), one of the major innovators of modern jazz. In a context of biography, history, and memoir, Maxine Gordon has completed the book that her late husband began, weaving his “solo” turns with her voice and a chorus of voices from past and present. Reading like a jazz composition, the blend of research, anecdote, and a selection of Dexter’s personal letters reflects his colorful life and legendary times.

In this collection of musical portraits, jazz pianist and radio host Marian McPartland pays sparkling tribute to such beloved and legendary figures as Benny Goodman, Bill Evans, Joe Morello, Paul Desmond, Alec Wilder, Mary Lou Williams, and others.

Valentina ha all'attivo album e concerti, e naviga ogni giorno nelle acque profonde dello swing, del jazz, del blues e anche del pop. Louis Armstrong e le note inconfondibili della sua tromba sono entrati nella storia della musica del Novecento. Universalmente riconosciuto come uno dei padri del genere musicale del jazz, Armstrong ebbe una vita di alti e bassi, da cui uscì vittorioso, e una carriera costellata di avventure: era un ribelle nella musica, amava rompere gli schemi accademici, stupire, far sorridere e far piangere allo stesso tempo.

No singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than jazz legend Billie Holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique herself with her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues - and this authentic biography sets the record straight. Donald Clarke was given unrivaled access to a treasure trove of interviews from the 1970s with those who knew Lady Day in all stages of her short, tragic life - from her childhood in the streets and good-time houses of Baltimore, through the early days of success in New York and the years of fame, to her tragic decline.

Born to interracial American parents in Sweden, Jason Diakité grew up between worlds - part Swedish, American, black, white, Cherokee, Slovak, and German, riding a delicate cultural and racial divide. It was a no-man’s-land that left him in constant search of self. Even after his hip-hop career took off, Jason fought to unify a complex system of family roots that branched across continents, ethnicities, classes, colors, and eras to find a sense of belonging.