Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), professionally known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz musician and singer-songwriter with a career spanning nearly thirty years. Nicknamed 'Lady Day' by her friend and. Billie Holiday; Billie Holiday nel 1947: Nazionalità Stati Uniti: Genere: Jazz Swing Blues: Periodo di attività: 1933-1959: Strumento: voce.
“Krin Gabbard is one of the finest stylists writing about jazz today, and Better Git It In Your Soul finds him at the top of his game. The writing is crisp, charming, and funny, a pleasure to read. The author’s love of.
Billie Holiday has one of the most distinctive voices of all time; her very personal style continues to inspire singers decades after her death in 1959. Holiday herself was inspired by great musicians she heard. Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz singer and songwriter. She was also called 'Lady Day', a nickname that her friend and musical partner Lester Young gave her. Holiday. This comprehensive lesson uses Billy Holiday's song 'Strange Fruit' as a discussion point for the history of lynching in the United States. Use this lesson during Black History Month (February).
Better Git It in Your Soul - Krin Gabbard - Hardcover. Charles Mingus is one of the most important—and most mythologized—composers and performers in jazz history. Classically trained and of mixed race, he was an outspoken innovator as well as a bandleader, composer, producer, and record- label owner. His vivid autobiography, Beneath the Underdog, has done much to shape the image of Mingus as something of a wild man: idiosyncratic musical genius with a penchant for skirt- chasing and violent outbursts. But, as the autobiography reveals, he was also a hopeless romantic. After exploring the most important events in Mingus’s life, Krin Gabbard takes a careful look at Mingus as a writer as well as a composer and musician. He digs into how and why Mingus chose to do so much self- analysis, how he worked to craft his racial identity in a world that saw him simply as “black,” and how his mental and physical health problems shaped his career.
'Strange Fruit' is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday, who first sang and recorded it in 1939. Written by teacher Abel Meeropol as a poem and published in 1937, it protested American racism, particularly the.
Billie Holiday (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), born Eleanora Fagan Goughy, was an American singer, generally considered one of the greatest jazz voices of all time; she was also known as Lady Day. Most artists belong to their times, but Billie Holiday, born 100 years ago Tuesday, fits in the present. In a way, she died before her time, just as the country was beginning to talk about race, drugs, feminism and.
Gabbard sets aside the myth- making and convincingly argues that Charles Mingus created a unique language of emotions—and not just in music. Capturing many essential moments in jazz history anew, Better Git It in Your Soul will fascinate anyone who cares about jazz, African American history, and the artist’s life.
INTRODUCTION. Charles Mingus Changed My Life. PART I. A Circus in a Bathtub. PART II. Autobiography, Autofiction, and Some Poetry. PART III. Third Stream Music and the Rest of Jazz History. PART IV. On and Off the Bandstand with Richmond, Dolphy, and Knepper. EPILOGUE. Mingus in the Movies.
Acknowledgments. Discography. Notes. Bibliography.
Index. Krin Gabbard retired after thirty- three years of teaching at Stony Brook University, and he now teaches in the jazz studies program at Columbia University. His previous books include Hotter than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture and Jammin’ at the Margins: Jazz and the American Cinema. He lives in New York City with his wife, Paula, and he is busy playing his trumpet and writing a memoir about his parents. Will likely long stand as the definitive account of the genius, and enigma, that was this great bassist, bandleader, and composer. Certainly no one has heretofore delved as deeply and thoroughly into what made him tick."—W. Royal Stokes Blog"'Better Git It In Your Soul draws the reader to listening to its subject’s productions. If already familiar with Mingus’ music, a reader may return to favorites with fresh ears and deeper insights.
Gabbard’s greatest personal contribution to understanding Mingus is his contextualization of events through his own broad, well- informed perspective."—Down. Beat"Offers several lenses through which to view Mingus and his music—the milieu in which he lived, wrote and played; literary life; closest musical associations; and as a coda his experience in film.
There is much in Better Git It In Your Soul to limn one’s understanding of and approach to Mingus’ tremendous body of work as well as the challenges he faced and orchestrated as a black artist in America."—The New York City Jazz Record"This is a wonderful book! This book completely absorbed me. You really took me in with your own emotional palette." —NPR/On Point with Tom Ashbrook"An important contribution to not only the study of Charles Mingus but also of the evolution of postwar jazz."—STARRED REVIEW—Library Journal"A solid addition to the literature of jazz."—Booklist. Krin Gabbard is one of the finest stylists writing about jazz today, and Better Git It In Your Soul finds him at the top of his game.
The writing is crisp, charming, and funny, a pleasure to read. The author’s love of this immensely rich body of music comes through on every page.”—Thomas Brothers, author of Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism“One of the reasons that the great musician Charles Mingus is not better known is that the raw complexity of his life and the scale and sweep of his work seem to demand a whole team of artists and scholars to fathom and explain his importance in several different arts. Finally, Krin Gabbard—biographer, musician, film scholar, and literary critic—steps in with a book worthy of this twentieth- century master, and one that will surprise even those familiar with his legacy.”—John Szwed, author of Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth“Gabbard conveys the complexity of Mingus’s life and his changing representation in an engaging and accessible book. A fascinating and thought- provoking read, this book is a must for anyone interested in jazz.”—Tony Whyton, author of Beyond “A Love Supreme” and Jazz Icons. March 1. 7, 2. 01. Duke Ellington Society (NY Chapter).