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Jeffrey Magee

The Uncrowned King of Swing

Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz

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If Benny Goodman was the King of Swing, then Fletcher Henderson was the power behind the throne. Now Jeffrey Magee offers a fascinating account of Henderson's musical career, throwing new light on the emergence of modern jazz and the world that created it.Drawing on an unprecedented combination of sources, including sound recordings and hundreds of scores that have been available only since Goodman's death, Magee illuminates Henderson's musical output, from his early work as a New York bandleader, to his pivotal role in building the Kingdom of Swing. He shows how Henderson, standing at the forefront of the New York jazz scene during the 1920s… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-535814-8
  • EAN: 9780195358148
  • Produktnummer: 13920964
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 11'216 KB
  • Abbildungen: 22 halftones, 122 music examples

Über den Autor


Jeffrey Magee is a Professor and Chair of Musicology in the School of Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His writings on jazz, ragtime, and American popular song have appeared in American Music, Lenox Avenue, International Dictionary of Black Composers, Musical Quarterly, the Cambridge History of American Music, and the Journal of the American Musicological Society.

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