Exploring Early Jazz

  The Origins and Evolution

 of the New Orleans Style

          By Daniel Hardie

   ISBN 0-595-21876-8

   Published by  iUniverse

 
Shadowy Images

“The anonymous pioneers presumably Negro for the most part, who gave impetus to the Americanisation process remain
silvery shadows on daguerreotypes that have yielded their image to time. They are of a period of popular music and
popular dance that deserves the sort of contemplative study that would go beyond research to imaginative reconstruction
based on archaeological study.” - Alex Wilder


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Rediscovering the Lost History of Jazz:
One night  around 1897 they say Buddy Bolden stood up in the Globe Hall  Dance Hall in Downtown  New Orleans and played the first hot blues. It was not until 1917 that the Original Dixieland Jazz Band made the first jazz recording. By 1927 after becoming the popular hit music of the Jazz Age what we now call Classic Jazz was giving way to a new type of hot music - big band Swing."Exploring EarlyJazz: The Origins and Evolution of the New Orleans Style"tells the story of the hectic thirty years during which the basic jazz of Buddy Bolden developed into Classic Jazz and then passed into history. It uncovers  the music of the twenty hidden years before the first recordings began to appear. It is also the saga of the first jazz bands, their struggle to adapt to the changing demands of their audiences and the impetus they gave to the roaring twenties.

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    Which were the first Jazz Bands?

   Who were their leaders?

   What did they play?

   Where did they play?

   How did they play?

   What was their legacy?

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What will you find in the book?

• Chronology of Jazz History
• Introduction
     Part I   Discovering Early Jazz contains the following chapters:
  1.  Recovering the Lost Years
  2.  Music in New Orleans Before
      the Jazz Revolution
  3.  Buddy Bolden and the Birth of Jazz
 4.   Jazz Bands of the  Bolden Era
          1897-1907
 5.  Ratty Music and Hot Ragtime
        1907/17
 6.  The Dawn of the Jazz Age
        1917/23
 7.  Classic Jazz and Golden Discs
        1923/27
 8.  White New Orleans Jazz
      Part II Performance Styles and  Social History adds:
 9.   Early Bands  and Their Music
10.  Authentic  Instrumentation and
       Early Jazz Bands
11.  Recreating the Music
12.  Legendary New Orleans and Early
      Jazz
13. The Life Story of Early Jazz
 
Appendix I Chronological List of Bands
Appendix II A Pocket History of Early Jazz
Appendix III Discography
Glossary 
Bibliography
Index

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To Read a Review of this book Click Here


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About the Author:
          Daniel Hardie’s previous work“The Loudest Trumpet :Buddy Bolden and the Early  History of Jazz”, the story of the music of the first jazz band leader Buddy Bolden, was published by iUniverse in 2000. He has also published a number of books and journal articles in the field of Maritime History. He is a former jazz clarinet player and lover of old time jazz. He is a member of the Royal Australian Historical Society and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Sydney Maritime Museum. He is also a maritime painter and has exhibited paintings of  heritage maritime subjects in Sydney and other major Australian cities. He lives in that city with his wife and has two grown daughters.   Click here to go to a review of the Loudest Trumpet and visit the Loudest Trumpet web page.

 


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