ghost of miles Posted 20 hours ago Report Share Posted 20 hours ago (edited) Interesting recent publication—book is arriving today, hoping to read it sometime in the coming weeks: In With the In Crowd: Popular Jazz in 1960s Black America Edited 20 hours ago by ghost of miles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted 20 hours ago Report Share Posted 20 hours ago But ..jazz began losing its Black audience in the 1950s!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster_Ties Posted 20 hours ago Report Share Posted 20 hours ago While I probably won’t rabidly devour this book, but I imagine it’ll be a good read — maybe a darn good one at that. If the reviews are positive , or if someone here reports back it’s good — I’m in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted 19 hours ago Report Share Posted 19 hours ago Looks like a good companion to Jazz With a Beat: Small Group Swing, 1940 – 1960 by member @ListeningToPrestige (Tad Richards) as well as the Soul Jazz book. I think I am in ... definitely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Beat Steve Posted 4 hours ago Report Share Posted 4 hours ago (edited) 16 hours ago, Dan Gould said: Looks like a good companion to Jazz With a Beat: Small Group Swing, 1940 – 1960 by member @ListeningToPrestige (Tad Richards) as well as the Soul Jazz book. I think I am in ... definitely. A side note: Thanks for mentioning that "Jazz With A Beat" book! I had been totally unaware of this. (Cannot recall its release has been discussed here - or did I miss something?) Ordered it at once as it is right up my alley. Glad to see (according to the sales blurb on Amazon) that the author acknolwedges the small-group R&B/Jump Blues acts as part of how Swing evolved after 1945. Good to see the days seem to be over at last when the entire R&B field was dismissed as being unworthy of serious consideration as "jazz" (of the post-WWII variety). The "In With The In Crowd" book looks interesting too (like you said - as a follow-up to the "Soul Jazz" book, maybe ...). But for now I'll sit and wait to hear from others who have read it - just to get a few more impressions. BTW, one aspect I wonder whether it will be covered in the "In Crowd" book (or in "Jazz With a Beat"?) are those "Mainstream" jazzmen who did retain a following well into the 60s at least on a local/regional level, such as Buddy Tate and his Celebrity Club orchestra who according to various period sources had a long-running club residency. Style-wise (considering the usual stylistic categories that jazz scribes tended to think in) I'd guess he fell into the "No man's land of jazz" between R&B and Soul Jazz. Edited 2 hours ago by Big Beat Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabshakeh Posted 2 hours ago Report Share Posted 2 hours ago What is the Soul Jazz book to which people are referring? Is that recommended. I'd also love a book on the Mainstream Swing side of things. Who is the author of this new one? Has he written anything else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niko Posted 2 hours ago Report Share Posted 2 hours ago the Soul Jazz book must be Bob Porter's book of the same name... (which I started reading but somehow never finished... so I'll wait with this new book until then) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted 2 hours ago Report Share Posted 2 hours ago Soul Jazz by Bob Porter (could not summon his name that is why I wasn't specific) is definitely recommended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabshakeh Posted 1 hour ago Report Share Posted 1 hour ago Oh. I think I have read that one. A useful book although I think I sold it on after reading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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