The Majesty of Chicago Jazz Twenty – Five Visionaries Who Define the City’s Sound

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Title: The Majesty of Chicago Jazz Twenty – Five Visionaries Who Define the City’s Sound
Author: Howard Reich
Category: Jazz, Reference, Music, History & Criticism
Language: English | 294 Pages | ISBN: 9780226852355

The first book to trace the vast influence of Chicago jazz from its origins to today-from Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton to Anita O’Day, Herbie Hancock, and the AACM.
Author and Chicago native Howard Reich gives readers a front-row seat to the history of Chicago jazz as it roared forth in jazz clubs, concert halls, and festivals. Reich covered Chicago jazz for more than thirty years as the Chicago Tribune’s staff critic, and in this collection, he argues that jazz as an art form is inconceivable without Chicago. Carefully choosing from among his thousands of articles on jazz, Reich highlights twenty-five of the most important Chicago jazz artists who pushed the art form forward.
The Majesty of Chicago Jazz begins with two New Orleans visionaries who achieved their artistic pinnacles in Chicago in the Roaring Twenties: Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong. In the decades that followed, Chicago produced an uninterrupted line of…