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Louis Prima by Garry Boulard,

This is the first paperback edition of the only biography of Louis Prima, one of the most under-rated jazz musicians big band jazz music and entertainers of the twentieth century. In a career that spanned four decades, Prima infused the grit big band jazz music and grace of Dixieland jazz with swing big band jazz music and big band sounds, the first whiffs of rock 'n' roll, big band jazz music and a vaudevillian stage presence. A native of New Orleans, the Guy Lombardo protege known as "The Italian Satchmo" was the country's smashing new jazz sensation at New York's Famous Door in the 1930s. He went on to be a successful big band leader, was a Las Vegas nightclub staple, big band jazz music and virtually created the concept of the lounge act. Despite his longstanding success, Prima's over-the-top on-stage antics induced critics not to take him seriously, big band jazz music and he was relegated to the status of mere "entertainer." Married five times big band jazz music and involved with numerous women in between, Prima has more often been remembered for his colorful relationships big band jazz music and quirky personality than for his abilities as a trumpeter big band jazz music and singer. After his death in 1978, his music gradually disappeared big band jazz music and jazz scholars rarely mentioned his name. Nudging Prima's legacy into the limelight the musician deserved, Garry Boulard nimbly explores Prima's ability to maintain a lifelong career, his knack for self-promotion, big band jazz music and how the cities in which he lived big band jazz music and performed -- New York, Los Angeles, big band jazz music and Las Vegas -- uniquely big band jazz music and indelibly informed his style. In a new preface, the author considers how the resurgence of big band big band jazz music and swing music in the late 1990s catapulted Prima big band jazz music and his music back into the public eye.
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The Creation of Jazz: Music, Race, and Culture in Urban America by Burton W. Peretti,

As musicians, listeners, big band jazz music and scholars have sensed for many years, the story of jazz is more than a history of the music. Burton Peretti presents a fascinating account of how the racial big band jazz music and cultural dynamics of American cities created the music, life, big band jazz music and business that was jazz. From its origins in the jook joints of sharecroppers big band jazz music and the streets big band jazz music and dance halls of 1890s New Orleans, through its later metamorphoses in the cities of the North, Peretti charts the life of jazz culture to the eve of bebop big band jazz music and World War II. In the course of those fifty years, jazz was the story of players who made the transition from childhood spasm bands to Carnegie Hall big band jazz music and worldwide touring big band jazz music and fame. It became the music of the Twenties, a decade of Prohibition, of adolescent discontent, of Harlem pride, big band jazz music and of Americans hoping to preserve cultural traditions in an urban, commercial age. And jazz was where black big band jazz music and white musicians performed together, as uneasy partners, in the big bands of Artie Shaw big band jazz music and Benny Goodman. "Blacks fought back by using jazz", states Peretti, "with its unique cultural big band jazz music and intellectual properties, to prove, assess, big band jazz music and evade the "dynamic of minstrelsy". Drawing on newspaper reports of the times big band jazz music and on the firsthand testimony of more than seventy prominent musicians big band jazz music and singers (among them Benny Carter, Bud Freeman, Kid Ory, big band jazz music and Mary Lou Williams), The Creation of Jazz is the first comprehensive analysis of the role of early jazz in American social history.
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Big band - A big band is a large musical ensemble that plays jazz music. The term is synonymous with the bands of the Swing Era, which were popular through the 1930s and 1940s, but is generally applied to any large jazz ensemble.

Bohuslän Big Band - The Bohuslän Big Band is a modern jazz ensemble from Sweden which started as a military orchestra in the 19th century. They play original music as well as compositions by Lars Jansson, Maria Schneider, Frank Zappa and others.

Misty's Big Adventure - Misty's Big Adventure are a nine piece band from Birmingham, England. Their music is an eclectic mix of jazz, lounge, psychedelia, two tone, pop and punk.

Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame - The Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame is a non-profit organization founded

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