Magic City: How the Birmingham Jazz Tradition Shaped the Sound of America Mathews Burgin
Magic City: How the Birmingham Jazz Tradition Shaped the Sound of America Mathews Burgin Magic City is the story of one of American music's essential unsung places: Birmingham, Alabama, birthplace of…
Specifikacia Magic City: How the Birmingham Jazz Tradition Shaped the Sound of America Mathews Burgin
Magic City: How the Birmingham Jazz Tradition Shaped the Sound of America Mathews Burgin
Magic City is the story of one of American music's essential unsung places: Birmingham, Alabama, birthplace of a distinctive and influential jazz heritage. He also celebrates the contributions of local educators, club owners, and civic leaders who nurtured a vital culture of Black expression in one of the country's most notoriously segregated cities. In a telling replete with colorful characters, iconic artists, and unheralded masters, Burgin Mathews reveals how Birmingham was the cradle and training ground for such luminaries as big band leader Erskine Hawkins, cosmic outsider Sun Ra, and a long list of sidemen, soloists, and arrangers.
In Birmingham, jazz was more than entertainment: long before the city emerged as a focal point in the national civil rights movement, its homegrown jazz heroes helped set the stage, crafting a unique tradition of independence, innovation,