Blue Note: Uncompromising Expression: The Finest in Jazz Since 1939 - Hardcover

Havers, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500517444 ISBN 13: 9780500517444

Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

A celebration of over seven decades of extraordinary music from a company that has stayed true to its founders’ commitment to ‘Uncompromising Expression’

About this title

About the Author

Richard Havers was Universal Music’s jazz consultant. He produced box sets, including '100 Years of the Blues', 'Louis Armstrong – Ambassador of Jazz', 'Ella – The Voice of Jazz', 'Verve ­– The Sound of America', 'Blue Note’s Uncompromising Expression' and a ten-CD career retrospective of Nat King Cole. He wrote numerous sleeve notes and books to accompany album and DVD releases, including many for The Rolling Stones. A prolific music writer he won the Blues Foundation’s Award for Literature in 2002. His articles have been published in the Daily Telegraph, The Times, Goldmine and Record Collector.

From the Back Cover

The first official illustrated history of Blue Note, the most influential and important brand in jazz, published on the label's 75th anniversary.

From the Inside Flap

Released to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the coolest and best- known label in jazz, this book celebrates over seven decades of extraordinary music from a company that has stayed true to its founders commitment to Uncompromising Expression. Tracing the evolution of jazz from the boogie- woogie and swing of the 1930s, through bebop, funk and fusion, to the eclectic mix Blue Note releases today, the book also narrates a complex social history from the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany to the developments in music and technology in the late 20th century. Blue Note is not only known as the purveyor of extraordinary jazz but is also famous as an arbiter of cool.

Edition details

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0500517444
• ISBN 13: 9780500517444
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400