Los comienzos del jazz

Jazz is one of the most important artistic and aesthetic phenomena of the 20th century. Its influence, both in the world of classical music and in avant-garde movements and their various manifestations, makes it a fact worthy of study. The book that the reader has in their hands has become on its own merits one of the most influential and ambitious classic texts ever published on jazz. Gunther Schuller spans from the origins of the genre in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to the first major flowering in the 1930s: exploring the work of the great soloists of the 1920s - Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong, among others-, the most prominent big bands and the most notable arrangers -especially Duke Ellington-, and places the music in the context of other musical traditions of the time, offering brilliant analyzes of many of the great recordings. An essential study of the first decades of jazz and an enlightening guide that will dazzle specialists and fans alike.