Catherine Tackley: 3 books
by Catherine Tackley
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
On January 16, 1938 Benny Goodman brought his swing orchestra to America's venerated home of European classical music, Carnegie Hall. The resulting concert - widely considered one of the most significant events in American music history - helped to usher jazz and swing music into the American cultural...
by Catherine Tackley (nee Parsonage)
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
As a popular music, the evolution of jazz is tied to the contemporary sociological situation. Jazz was brought from America into a very different environment in Britain and resulted in the establishment of parallel worlds of jazz by the end of the 1920s: within the realms of institutionalized culture...
Black British Jazz
Routes, Ownership and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Black British musicians have been making jazz since around 1920 when the genre first arrived in Britain. This groundbreaking book reveals their hidden history and major contribution to the development of jazz in the UK. More than this, though, the chapters show the importance of black British jazz...