Saxophone Colossus
The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins
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Aidan Levy
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Sonny Rollins has long been considered an enigma. Known as the "Saxophone Colossus," he is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest jazz improvisers of all time. His seven-decade career has been well documented, but the backstage life of the man once called "the only jazz recluse" has gone largely untold—until now.
Based on more than 200 interviews with Rollins himself, family members, friends, and collaborators, as well as Rollins' extensive personal archive, Saxophone Colossus is the comprehensive portrait of this legendary saxophonist and composer, civil rights activist and environmentalist. Yet his meteoric rise to fame was not without its challenges. He served two sentences on Rikers Island and won his battle with heroin addiction. In 1959, Rollins took a two-year sabbatical from recording and performing. In 1968, he left again to study at an ashram in India. He returned to performing from 1971 until his retirement in 2012.
The story of Sonny Rollins is the story of jazz itself, and Sonny's own narrative is as timeless and timely as the art form he represents. Part jazz oral history told in the musicians' own words, part chronicle of one man's quest for social justice and spiritual enlightenment, this is the definitive biography of one of the most enduring and influential artists in jazz and American history.
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Sophisticated Giant presents the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon (1923-1990), one of the major innovators of modern jazz. In a context of biography, history, and memoir, Maxine Gordon has completed the book that her late husband began, weaving his “solo” turns with her voice and a chorus of voices from past and present. Reading like a jazz composition, the blend of research, anecdote, and a selection of Dexter’s personal letters reflects his colorful life and legendary times.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully Told
- De Light Mentat en 03-23-21
De: Maxine Gordon
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The History of Jazz, Second Edition
- De: Ted Gioia
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 21 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 318
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Ted Gioia's History of Jazz has been universally hailed as a classic - acclaimed by jazz critics and fans around the world. Now Gioia brings his magnificent work completely up-to-date, drawing on the latest research and revisiting virtually every aspect of the music, past and present. Gioia tells the story of jazz as it had never been told before, in a book that brilliantly portrays the legendary jazz players, the breakthrough styles, and the world in which it evolved. Here are the giants of jazz and the great moments of jazz history.
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2 out of 5 stars
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An Exciting Opportunity Missed
- De Kindle Customer en 02-02-15
De: Ted Gioia
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The Jazzmen
- How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America
- De: Larry Tye
- Narrado por: Dominic Hoffman
- Duración: 16 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz—Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie—who, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become the most popular entertainers on the planet.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well Organized and Themed
- De unhae campbell en 05-23-24
De: Larry Tye
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Miles
- The Autobiography
- De: Miles Davis
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 16 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,323
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,172
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,159
Universally acclaimed as a musical genius, Miles Davis was one of the most important and influential musicians in the world. Here, Miles speaks out about his extraordinary life. Miles: The Autobiography, like Miles himself, holds nothing back. For the first time Miles talks about his five-year silence. He speaks frankly and openly about his drug problem and how he overcame it. He condemns the racism he encountered in the music business and in American society generally. And he discusses the women in his life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A man untroubled by his own contradictions
- De Barry en 12-07-12
De: Miles Davis
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Thelonious Monk
- The Life and Times of an American Original
- De: Robin DG Kelley
- Narrado por: Sean Crisden
- Duración: 25 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 179
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 148
Thelonious Monk is the critically acclaimed, gripping saga of an artist's struggle to "make it" without compromising his musical vision. It is a story that, like its subject, reflects the tidal ebbs and flows of American history in the 20th century. To his fans, he was the ultimate hipster; to his detractors, he was temperamental, eccentric, taciturn, or childlike. His angular melodies and dissonant harmonies shook the jazz world to its foundations, ushering in the birth of "bebop" and establishing Monk as one of America's greatest composers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The definitive bio of Monk
- De ricardo en 12-27-17
De: Robin DG Kelley
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3 Shades of Blue
- Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
- De: James Kaplan
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 14 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 94
In 1959, America’s great indigenous art form, jazz, reached the height of its power and popularity. James Kaplan’s magnificent 3 Shades of Blue captures how that golden era came to be, and its pinnacle with the recording of Kind of Blue. It’s a book about music, and business, and race, and heroin, and the cities that gave jazz its home, and the Black geniuses behind its rise. It’s an astonishing meditation on creativity and the strange environments where it can flourish most.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great deep dive into a pinnacle of jazz, marred by author bias against later jazz years
- De Michael J. Anderson en 04-08-24
De: James Kaplan