Eleven 7 days, it is worth filling this leisure holiday with music. If you want to listen to jazz, where do you start? Recently, China Pictorial Publishing House launched the book "Jazz Chronicle" compiled by Mervyn Cook, a music professor at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom, which uses nearly 350 rare pictures in color and black and white to connect the 115 years of global development history of jazz, presenting the music cross-border stories of many artists, which can be called the jazz encyclopedia.
Starting from the origins of jazz in the 19th century, the Chronicle of Jazz introduces the development, spread, rise and fall of jazz in chronological order and in stages. Close observation of the mutual influence and collision of jazz and other art forms such as classical and popular music, detailing the style, genre, important figures, bands, and works that have influenced later generations, a book opens up the two veins of jazz appreciation.
The book contains nearly 350 pictures, from album covers, label logos, promotional posters, sheet music manuscripts to photos of musicians, musicians, and performance scenes, with informative text commentary, bringing the history of jazz to life. At the same time, the book lists the world events of the same period, comprehensively showing the integration and development of jazz in the global context. In addition, the book also includes a large number of expanded contents such as "musicians", "musical terms", "international jazz festival recommendations", "recommended listening", "recommended reading", etc., which can be described as the most imaginative and persistent music compilation, and is a complete treasure trove of resources for all music lovers.
Tenor saxophone pioneer Sydney Becher, photographed in the late 1940s
The author of the book, Mervyn Cook, is a professor of music at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom, as well as a pianist and composer. He has written and edited numerous books on jazz history, film music, and Benjamin Britten, such as Jazz and A History of Film Music.
For the vast sea of characters, works, styles, legends and anecdotes in the history of jazz, it is indeed necessary for a good guide like the author Cook, who can take readers on a wonderful sea journey with his erudition, excellent refining skills, and excellent route choice. Especially for the general public, what is most needed is not to do research, but to appreciate, to be able to appreciate the many victories on the sea in less time.
The Duke of Ellington in front of the keyboard has a gentle and elegant mood of his own. Coming from a middle-class family, he combined social status with an unprecedented talent for composition, and continued to improve the standard of jazz in the 1930s
"Jazz Chronicle" is a book that is authoritative, intellectual, important, and required to read, and is a classic that stands on the shoulders of many jazz giants. Li Guangping, a famous music critic, said, "Although the work takes the development of jazz music as a clue, it has actually transcended the concept and boundaries of jazz music in the traditional sense, and the author has mobilized a large number of precious historical, humanistic, ideological, philosophical, literary, artistic and other comprehensive means to create a comprehensive text with great impact with a free and powerful spiritual background and moving writing skills, which is worth everyone who loves music." ”
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Zhang Zhiyi
Editor/Bow Lifang