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Mar 28, 2024 · It was modern jazz’s annus mirabilis. As James Kaplan writes in his book about trumpeter Miles Davis, saxophonist John Coltrane and pianist Bill Evans — three mid-century geniuses — 1959 ...
- Jonathan Derbyshire
The year 1922 has been known as the annus mirabilis (“miracle year”) of Anglo-American literary modernism, chiefly because of the near-simultaneous publication of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” James Joyce’s Ulysses, and Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room.
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1922 is seen as the 'miracle year' of literary modernism, with the publication of TS Eliot’s The Waste Land, James Joyce’s Ulysses, and Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room. What was it about this moment of history - under the shadow of the Great War and with the ‘Jazz Age’ about to begin - that produced these astonishing classics?
Their output comprised an eclectic set of recordings that encompassed the key styles of the day—cool, modal, hard bop, avante garde—and consisted primarily of tunes penned by the leaders, yielding classics such as “So What,” “Take Five” and “Naima.”
Analysis. Penn has been thinking a lot about John Dryden lately. Dryden is the kind of poet students are forced to read in graduate school but never bother reading in real life. Dryden wrote a poem, “Annus Mirabilis,” all about England’s worst year, 1666, in which war, plague, and fire threatened to destroy it.
Heralded as “modern jazz,” the new music favored small combos playing an opening melodic theme (the “head”) that introduced a set of chords, followed by a succession of solos in which players improvised new versions of the theme with agile, quicksilver runs through the governing chord progression, free to enrich the harmonic texture with substit...
Jul 6, 2020 · With Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666 John Dryden published his first major nondramatic poem, and his last major poem utilizing the heroic quatrain format. In addition to its subtitle, The Year of Wonders, 1666, the work contained an explanation beneath the title identifying those wonders: “AN HISTORICAL POEM: CONTAINING THE ...
