The Encyclopedia of Jazz

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THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF JAZZ
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LOUIS ARMSTRONG:
"When it comes to teliing the stories about jazz and the men who have made it, Leonard Feather is my boy he is one cat that really knows what's going on."
LEONARD BERNSTEIN:
"Opens ones eyes to a perspective-view of jazz that is astonishingly new and rich."
BILL COSS in Metronome:
"The most titanic thing of its kind ever attempted in jazz____"
RALPH J. GLEASON in the San Francisco Chronicle:
"It contains practically everything you would want to know about jazz. The history of jazz itself will serve as an excellent introduction— Absolutely invaluable."
JOHN HAMMOND
"Indispensable to a knowledge of jazz, its history, its performers and its goals."
leonard feather came to New York in 1935 from London where he was born. Best known through regular appearances in Down Beat (in which his unique "Blind-fold Test" has long been a popular feature), his byline has alsó appeared in The New York Times,... Tovább

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Critical praise for
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF JAZZ
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LOUIS ARMSTRONG:
"When it comes to teliing the stories about jazz and the men who have made it, Leonard Feather is my boy he is one cat that really knows what's going on."
LEONARD BERNSTEIN:
"Opens ones eyes to a perspective-view of jazz that is astonishingly new and rich."
BILL COSS in Metronome:
"The most titanic thing of its kind ever attempted in jazz____"
RALPH J. GLEASON in the San Francisco Chronicle:
"It contains practically everything you would want to know about jazz. The history of jazz itself will serve as an excellent introduction— Absolutely invaluable."
JOHN HAMMOND
"Indispensable to a knowledge of jazz, its history, its performers and its goals."
leonard feather came to New York in 1935 from London where he was born. Best known through regular appearances in Down Beat (in which his unique "Blind-fold Test" has long been a popular feature), his byline has alsó appeared in The New York Times, Journal-American, Saturday Review, Look, Playboy, Metronome, Esquire, and on the album notes of hundreds of LP records. Equally well known in Europe, Mr. Feather appears in the London Melody Maker, Jazz Magaziné in Francé, Estrad in Swe-den and others in Italy, Germany and Poland, and con-tributes an annual article on jazz to The World Book Encyclopedia yearbooks.
NAT HENTOFF in Down Beat:
"I doubt whether anyone can discover a really major figure who is not included. As is usual with Feather, the biographical sketches are well writ-ten so that they provide good, casual reading as well as reference material the evaluations are carefully phrased with as much objectivity as any man with firm, experienced tastes can achieve.
"This book is one of the major contributions to the literature of jazz it sets a standard in con-ception and handsomeness of production that all books on jazz will have to be compared with____"
IRVING KOLODIN in The Saturday Review:
"Never before has so much basic data about jazz musicians been gathered together as in Leonard Feather's The Encyclopedia of Jazz"
GILBERT MILLSTEIN in The New York Times:
"It is likely to prove an enduring reference work____"
BILL SIMON in The Billboard:
"An indispensable item for station libraries, record company personnel, columnists, annotators disk dealers and plain jazzophiles."
Mr. Feather studied piano with Leslie Taylor in London; in New York, he studied clarinet with Jimmy Hamil-ton, harmony and piano with Lennie Tristano. He has written more than 300 compositions recorded by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jimmy Rushing, Sarah Vaughan, Coleman Hawkins and others. He wrote Dinah Washing-ton's hits Evil Gál Blues and Blowtop Blues. His suites, Winter Sequence and Hi-Fi Suite were recorded for MGM. He has supervised recordings for RCA Victor, MGM, Mércury, Decca, Columbia and many others.
In 1958 he served as consultant for the educational television series The Subject is Jazz for NBC. His radio shows have included Platterbrains, on ABC, and WNCN's Feather's Nest. He was the first to broadcast a special jazz series for the Voice of America: his Jazz Club U.S.A. was heard all over the world in 1950-52.
Mr. Feather helped to organize the two jazz concerts at the Metropolitan Opera House (the Esquire All Stars' show in 1944 and Duke Ellington's concert in 1951), and was program director of the Playboy Jazz Festival in Chicago, 1959. He produced the first Carnegie Hall concerts given by Louis Armstrong, Woody Hermán, Lionel Hamp-ton and Dizzy Gillespie. Mr. Feather discovered George Shearing, brought him to this country in 1947 and organ-ized the Shearing Quintet.
His first book, Inside Jazz (originally Inside Bebop) appeared in 1949. His first comprehensive jazz history, The Book of Jazz, was published by Horizon Press in 1957. Mr. and Mrs. Feather and their young daughter now live in North Hollywood, California.
ISBN: 0-517-014211
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF JAZZ by Leonard Feather Completely revísed over 2,000 BIOGRAPHIES over 200 PHOTOGRAPHS
The appearance of the first encyclopedia of jazz was of course one of the most important jazz events in years. Imme-diately following its overwhelming welcome by listeners and critics, by musicians and conductors, by recording directors and record collectors—in both jazz and classical music—it had a phenomenal success throughout the world.
And now, this monumental new edition, five years in the making, nearly doubles the immense rangé of the encyclopedia of jazz. Packed with many new features, it contains a totál revision of the first book and of the subsequent year-books, as well as the vast new material that has developed in this rapidly growing field—in effect an integration of four volumes into one cohesive whole.
In addition to the many new features the encyclopedia of jazz now contains:
OVER 2,000 BIOGRAPHIES
— nearly a thousand more than appeared in the first edition. Included in these biographies are personal histories as well as musical backgrounds: instruments played, reports of all groups worked with; reports of favorites; chief influences; important awards won; discography of LPs; and, where possible, addresses of the musicians. In addition to the biographies of a thousand new jazz figures, the biographies of the thousand or so artists who appeared in the first encyclopedia are enlarged.
OVER 200 MAGNIFICENT PHOTOGRAPHS
— a valuable album in itself. A portrait of jazz in the making, from the Originál Dixieland "Jass" Band to the classic figures of the modern era — including rare childhood photographs of Billie Holiday, Lester Young and Louis Armstrong. Alsó included are many photographs of the younger jazz stars. Vissza