Early twentieth-century brass idioms [electronic resource] : art, jazz, and other popular traditions : proceedings of the international conference presented by the Institute of Jazz Studies of Rutgers University and the Historic Brass Society, November 4-5, 2005 / edited by Howard T. Weiner

Includes bibliographical references, discography and index

Brass playing in the early twentieth century : idioms and cultures of performance / Trevor Herbert -- Trombone idiom in the twentieth century : classical, jazz, and hybrid influences / Trevor Herbert -- Who's on first, what's second, and where did they come from? : the social and musical textures of early jazz / Thomas Brothers -- How the jazz artist practices / Jimmy Owens -- Struttin' with some brass : African American transformations of the trumpet / Krin Gabbard -- An interview with trumpet legends William Fielder and Joe Wilder / Ed Berger -- Expanding parameters on brass bands in early New Orleans jazz / Bruce Boyd Raeburn -- Performance practice techniques of the James Reese Europe Band / Reid Badger -- Italian jazz trumpet style : American and European influences during fascism (1920-1940) / Luca Cerchiari -- "Like a string of pearls" : reflections on the role of brass instrumentalists in Jewish instrumental Klezmer music and the trope of "Jewish jazz" / Joel E. Rubin -- The early career of Spiegle Willcox : influences to 1930 / Ralph T. Dudgeon and William Lane (discography) -- Louis Armstrong and the origins of jazz improvisation / Peter Ecklund -- The blues and the uptown brass bands of New Orleans / Vic Hobson -- Louis Armstrong, Bunk Johnson, and Jules Levy : the art of "tonation" / David Sager

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