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Such Melodious Racket: The Lost History of Jazz in Canada, 1914-1949
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by Mark Miller
Sales Rank: 3495656
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Cover Type: Paperback with 288 pages
Published by: Mercury PressEdition: 1st Edition September 1998
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1551280469
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1551280462
Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 15.5 ounces
Book Description
Such Melodious Racket traces, for the first time, the introduction, dissemination and early development of jazz in Canada. Beginning with the appearances in vaudeville of a pioneering New Orleans ensemble, the Creole Band, in 1914, and concluding with Oscar Peterson's celebrated US debut at Carnegie Hall in 1949, the book documents the activities both of the Americans who brought this audacious new music to Canada - the legendary Jelly Roll Morton not least among them - and of the Canadians who soon took jazz for their own. This fascinating study is based on extensive archival research, as well as interviews with more than seventy musicians - many now in their seventies or eighties - and includes numerous rare and wonderful photographs.
About The Author
Mark Miller, a Toronto freelance writer and photographer, has been the jazz critic for the Globe and Mail since 1978. He has also written for Down Beat, Coda, Saturday Night and many other periodicals, and was associate editor of the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada (1992). He is the author of four books on jazz: Jazz in Canada: Fourteen Lives (1982), Boogie, Pete & The Senator: Canadian Musicians in Jazz, the Eighties (1987), Cool Blues: Charlie Parker in Canada, 1953 (1989) (all Nightwood Editions), Such Melodious Racket: The Lost History of Jazz in Canada (1997, Mercury), and The Miller Companion to Jazz in Canada (2001, Mercury).
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