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Overview
In this collection of riveting biographies of the great jazz guitarists, Leslie Gourse traces the history of the jazz guitar from its beginnings at the turn of the century to its current place in contemporary music. She looks at the lives and careers of the early blues guitarists and continues through the free jazz guitarists and neo-classicists of today.Traces the evolution of the guitar in jazz history and profiles the world's greatest jazz guitarists from the early 1900s to the present.
Editorials
Library Journal
Gr 6 Up-Two attractive, concise, and well-researched volumes that are suitable for both recreational reading and research. The well-written texts share the pages with vintage black-and-white photographs. Readers will appreciate the fast pace of the narratives and will find them hard to put down. Gourse introduces individual artists and weaves information about their contributions to the development and evolution of jazz. Her approach is chronological and the presentation is logical and interesting. The author clearly explains musical terms, and, with aplomb, introduces her audience to a musical jargon that at the pen of another author could be technical and otherwise incomprehensible. Both volumes contain extensive source notes and compilations of suggested listening, further reading, jazz magazines, and popular Internet sites. A detailed index is appended. Fine additions to music collections.-Linda Zoppa, South Bronx High School, NY Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.Book Details
Published
September 1, 1999
Publisher
New York : Franklin Watts, c1999.
Pages
144
Format
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ISBN
9780531115657