An ensemble of jazz musiocologists have written these pieces especially for this book, intended to "place jazz, its history and its language in fuller perspective". Jazz, from its source in West African music to its transposition here, its variations (it is a "collective creation"), its form and its content, to some of its performers and some aspects of its performance today is discussed with considerable musicianship throughout. There are interesting, differentiating pieces on jazz styles- ragtime and the blues, boogie-woogie and bebop; tributes to Jelly Roll Morton and Charlie Parker and Ellington; evaluations of some of the current writing on jazz, as well as its new "respectability" as an art form; etc., etc. For the collector-connoisseurs who are probably familiar with other books under the aegis of these editors and to whom the biblio and discography will be important.
Pub Date: Dec. 3, 1959
ISBN: 0306800020
Page Count: 406
Publisher: Rinehart
Review Posted Online: April 3, 2012
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 1, 1959
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
BOOK REVIEW
BOOK REVIEW
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
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