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Cargando... The Guitar Playerspor James Sallis
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This collection of essays on "neglected" guitar players like Eddie Lang, Riley Puckett and Hank Garland is a good introduction to American music in all its forms from blues to jazz to old time music to rock and roll. Written in 1982 or thereabouts, it felt a little dated to me, which is surprising since most of the musicians Sallis writes about had died by the time he wrote. Well worth reading even if it only inspires you to seek out and listen to the music of even one of the guitar players he profiles. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"The guitar and American music are inexorably intertwined," writes James Sallis in The Guitar Players. He notes that "American music was built on the backs of black slaves." The great classical blues period of the 1920s had rich antecedents goingnbsp;back further than plantation orchestras featuring fiddles and bajos. The introduction of the guitar, at first not a solo instrument, really demonstrated rhythmic ingenuity. Sallis shows how folk music and a cross-fertilization of traditions and techniques resulted in blues, ragtime, jazz, rock 'n' roll, and country-western. He writes eloquently about fourteen transitional or pivotal performers: the Mississippi Sheiks; Lonnie Johnson, the first virtuoso blues guitarist; Eddie Lang, the first great jazz guitarist; Roy Smeck, the foremost popularizer of guitar playing; Charlie Christian, the founder of modern jazz guitar; Riley Puckett, the first great country-music guitarist; T-Bone Walker, "daddy of the blues"; George Barnes; Hank Garland; Wes Montgomery, the jazz innovator; Mike Bloomfield, the heavy-rock guitarist; Ry Cooder; Ralph Towner; and Lenny Breau. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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