JAZZ NO PAÍS DO IMPROVISO!

3 de fevereiro de 2006

30 contos de jazz

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Se tiver por aí cerca de 150 euros que não lhe façam falta (o que deve ser difícil nestes tempos de crise...) pode levar para casa este magnífico livro.

São 700 grandes páginas que, com imagens do conceituado fotógrafo William Claxton e textos do musicólogo Joachim Berendt, percorrem os cantos e recantos do jazz nos EUA dos anos 59/60.

Com eles cruzaram-se desde os mais reputados jazzmen (Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Muddy Waters, Gabor Szabo, Dave Brubeck, Stan Getz, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane) ao anónimo músico de rua.

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At sexta fev. 03, 08:08:00 da tarde 2006, Marco Lourenço said...: vou tentar comprar isto na noite de aderente da fnac. porque parece ser mesmo imperdivel
At sexta fev. 03, 09:54:00 da tarde 2006, Anónimo said...: Caro Marc,

E é mesmo, já para não falar nas versões de temas como "Angel Eyes" ou "You'd be so nice to come home to".
At sábado fev. 04, 04:41:00 da tarde 2006, Anónimo said...: Na amazon.com custa 126 dolares e consegue-se em 2a mao por 116. Mas claro que ha depois o custo dos portes.
At sábado fev. 04, 04:54:00 da tarde 2006, Anónimo said...: Pois, os portes encarecem um pouco, mas segundo me disseram mesmo assim vale a pena.

PS: Por lapso no nosso comentário anterior estávamos a referir-nos ao disco de Al Cohn e Zoot Sims.
At domingo fev. 05, 07:16:00 da tarde 2006, Anónimo said...: Estive agora a dar uma voltinha no ebay e lembrei-me de procurar este livro. Está lá um autografado pelo autor, $135/112.3EUR, mas portes dos EUA para cá para um livro tão pesado devem elevar bastante o preço final.
At domingo fev. 05, 08:06:00 da tarde 2006, Anónimo said...: Creio que deve tratar-se de um exemplar da primeira edição e não dste editado agora pela Taschen.
At segunda fev. 06, 12:59:00 da manhã 2006, Anónimo said...: Sim estive agora a ver e é realmente a 1ª edição. Quais são as diferenças para a nova edição?
At segunda fev. 06, 11:42:00 da tarde 2006, JMS said...: Para responder a essa pergunta nada melhor do que usar a própria ficha editorial do livro:

"The book Jazzlife (...) has become a collector?s item that is highly treasured among jazz and photography fans.

In 2003, TASCHEN began reassembling this important collection of material?along with many never-before-seen color images from those trips. They are brought together in this updated volume, which includes a foreword by Claxton tracing his travels with Berendt and his love affair with jazz music in general.

Utilizing the benefits of today's digital technology, a restored audio CD from Joachim Berendt's original recordings has been produced and is included in this package".
At terça fev. 07, 12:01:00 da tarde 2006, Anónimo said...: :-) Bem haja!

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PARA QUE A HISTÓRIA NÃO SE REPITA...

...aqui ficam algumas das condições que o Ministério da Educação Popular definiu, durante o Governo de Hitler, para a atribuição de licenças para espectáculos de música de dança.

DEPARTMENT OF POPULAR EDUCATION AND ART

Conditions Governing the Grant of Licenses for Dance Music

NEGROID: Belonging to a Negro race. This includes the African Negroes (and also those living outside of Africa), also Pygmies, Bushmen and Hottentots. NEGRITO: In the wider sense of the term, the short-statured, curly or frizzy-haired, dark-skinned inhabitants of Southeastern Asia, Melanesia and Central Africa.

1. Music: The Embargo on Negroid and Negrito Factors in dance Music and Music for Entertainments.

2. Introduction: The following regulations are intended to indicate the revival of the European spirit in the music played in this country for dances and amusements, by freeing the latter from the elements of that primitive Negroid and/or Negrito music, which may be justly regarded as being in flagrant conflict with the Europeon conception of music. These regulations constitute a transitory measure born of practical considerations and which must of necessity precede a general revival.

3. Prohibition: It is forbidden to play in public music which possesses to a marked degree characteristic features of the method of improvisation, execution, composition and arrangement adopted by Negroes and colored people. It is forbidden in publications, reports, programs, printed or verbal announcements, etc.: (a) to describe music played or to be played with the words "jazz" or "jazz music." (b) to use the technical jargon described below, except in reference to or as a description of the instrumental and vocal dance music of the North American Negroes. Exceptions may Be permitted where such music is intended for a strictly scientific or strictly educational purpose and where such music is interpreted by persons having two or more Negroid or Negritic grandparents.

4. Descripton of The Main Characteristic Features of the Above-Mentioned Music which Differ from the European Conception of Music: The use of tonally undefined mordents, Ostentatious trills, double-stopping or ascendant glissandi, obtained in the Negro style by excessive vibrato, lip technique and/or shaking of the musical instrument. In jazz terminology, the effects known as "dinge," "smear" and "whip." Also the use of intentional vocalization of an instrumental tone by imitating a throaty sound. In jazz terminology, the adoption of the "growl" on brass wind instruments, and also the "scratchy" clarinet tone. Also the use of any intentional instrumentalization of the singing voice by substituting senseless syllables for the words in the text by "metalizing" the voice. In jazz terminology, so-called "scat" singing and the vocal imitation of brass wind instruments. Also the use in Negro fashion of harshly timbered and harshly dynamic intonations unless already described. In jazz terminology, the use of "hot" intonations. Also the use in Negro fashion of dampers on brass and woodwind instruments in which the formation of the tone is achieved in solo items with more than the normal pressure. This does not apply to saxophones or trombones. Likewise forbidden, in the melody, is any melody formed in the manner characteristic of Negro players, and which can be unmistakably recognized.

5. Expressly Forbidden: The adoption in Negro fashion of short motifs of exaggerated pitch and rhythm, repeated more than three times without interruption by a solo instrument (or soloist), or more than sixteen times in succession without interruption by a group of instruments played by a band. In jazz terminology, any adoption of "licks" and "riffs" repeated more than three times in succession by a soloist or more than sixteen times for one section or for two or more sections. Also the exaggeration of Negroid bass forms, based on the broken tritone. In jazz terminology, the "boogie-woogie," "honky tonk" or "barrelhouse" style.

6. Instruments Banned: Use of very primitive instruments such as the Cuban Negro "quijada" (jaw of a donkey) and the North American Negro "washboard." Also the use of rubber mutes (plungers) for wind brass instruments, the imitation of a throaty tone in the use of mutes which, whether accompanied by any special movement of the hand or not, effect an imitation of a nasal sound. In jazz terminology, use of "plungers" and "Wah Wah" dampers. The so-called "tone color" mutes may, however, be used. Also the playing in Negro fashion of long, drawn-out percussion solos or an imitation thereof for more than two or four three-time beats, more frequently than three times or twice in the course of 32 successive beats in a complete interpretation. In jazz terminology, "stop choruses" by percussion instruments, except brass cymbals. There is no objection to providing a chorus with percussion solos in places where a break could also come, but at not more than three such places. Also the use of a constant, long drawn-out exaggerated tonal emphasis on the second and fourth beats in 4/4 time. In jazz terminology, the use of the long drawn-out "off beat" effect.

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