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About the series: Popular Music History publishes books that challenge established orthodoxies in popular music studies, examine the formation and dissolution of canons, interrogate histories of genres, focus on previously neglected forms, or engage in archaeologies of popular music.
Edited by Alyn Shipton, author of “A New History of Jazz" (Continuum, winner of the 2001 Jazz Journalists Award for Best Book on Jazz).
Titles in this series:
Forthcoming October 2006:
LEE MORGAN: His Life, Music and Culture, by Tom Perchard
This is the first biography of the jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan (1938- 72). He was a prodigy: recruited to Dizzy Gillespie's big band while still a teenage and joining Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers not much after; by his early 20s, Morgan had played on four continents and dozens of albums. The trumpeter would go on to cultivate a personal and highly influential style, and to make records--most notably The Sidewinder - which would sell amounts almost unheard of in jazz.
While what should have been Morgan's most successful years were hampered by a heroin addiction, the ascendant black liberation movement of the late 1960s gave the musician a new, political impulse, and he returned to the jazz scene to become a vociferous campaigner for black musicians' rights and representation. But Morgan's personal life remained troubled, and during a fight with his girlfriend at a New York club, he was shot and killed at age 33.
Although Lee Morgan lived and died in sensational style, the story told in this book doesn't just stumble between stages, studios, bars and needles; such a narrative couldn't do justice to the richness of the trumpeter's music, nor to the culture from which it came. Here, then, the events of Morgan's life are presented not just as items of biography, but also as points of departure for wider historical investigations that aim to situate the musician and his contemporaries in changing aesthetic, social and economic contexts. The work draws on many original interviews with Morgan's colleagues and friends, as well as extensive archival research and critical engagement with the music itself.
256p (Equinox Publishing 2006); ISBN 1845532058. Hardback; Price US $29.95.
JAZZ VISIONS: Lennie Tristano and His Legacy, by Peter Ind
“Jazz Visions is a remarkable book which presents a fascinating double portrait of the subject and the author"--John Chilton, professional jazz trumpeter and writer on jazz
“This book is just what is needed to inform musicians, students, teachers, and historians around the world with an 'up close and personal' view of the genius of jazz, pianist/composer/teacher, Lennie Tristano. Bassist Peter Ind describes vividly how exciting it was to be living in New York City as a creative musician. Peter's writing skills throughout will enlighten and entertain the novice and non-musician as well. The best part for me is that it was written by a great player who was there right in the thick of it all"--Rufus Reid, jazz bassist
192p, 12 b/w photos (Equinox 2005); ISBN 1845530454. Hardback. Price US $29.95
OUT OF THE LONG DARK : The Life of Ian Carr, by Alyn Shipton
“Out of the Long Dark is a worthy successor to Shipton's excellent earlier biography of Dizzy Gillespie. It will further educate a new generation of jazz fans with an appetite for delving back into earlier British jazz, and will please greatly many of those who grew up with Carr's music first time round."--Jazzwise
“Trumpeter, composer, bandleader and writer Ian Carr grew up in the north-east, and his music has always had an appropriately down-to-earth grittiness about it. He has been a major force in British jazz for 40 years, and his story--stylishly and perceptively told by Alyn Shipton--also stands as a history of the music in this country over that period"--Yorkshire Post
256p, 24 b/w photos (Equinox Publishing 2006); ISBN 1845532228. Paperback. Price US $25.00.
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