Barban E. Jazz contacts. Encounters and Destinies. From Ellington to Colman, CPH

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978-5-7379-0994-9 Barban E. Jazz contacts. Encounters and Destinies. From Ellington to Colman, Compozitor Publishing House Saint-Petersburg

The book includes essays on outstanding jazz musicians, whose music belongs to the most diverse styles and directions: from all varieties of the mainstream to the avant-garde. Among them are Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Gerry Mulligan, Lee Konitz, Michel Legrand, Wynton Marsalis, Ornette Colman, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Anthony Braxton. The author communicated with all the characters in the book, interviewed all of them (with a single exception), so that personal impressions and fragments of interviews form an important part of the content of Jazz Contacts.
The musical portraits included in the book were written as a combination of critical analysis, personal characteristics and biography. The main attention is paid to the features of the creative individuality, artistic beliefs, mentality and spiritual culture of the musician. No less importance is attached to the aesthetic and psychological motivation of creativity, which helps to recreate the holistic appearance of the characters in this intriguing portrait gallery.

Pages: 268.
Compozitor Publishing House - Saint-Petersburg.
ISMN/ISBN: 978-5-7379-0994-9