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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 ...
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“By ’59, as opposed to recording and arranging standard songs, there was, now, a predominance of original compositions in jazz recordings,” says trombonist and composer Ron Westray, York University’s Oscar Peterson Chair in Jazz Performance, of the environment that yielded these five influential ‘concept-records.’ “And the ...
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Aug 27, 2019 · The latest in the historical concerts presented by Richard Pite's Jazz Repertory Company, focuses on a jazz icon, Miles Davis, and his annus mirabilis, 1959. Peter Vacher fills in the background to the 21 September concert in Cadogan Hall: In the course of some 30 or more concerts at Cadogan Hall, Richard Pite’s Jazz Repertory…
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?
This double valence captures the contrast between searing memories of battlefield death and anticipation of pleasure and plenitude in the Jazz Age. The central figures in this entry are at once newly confident in the adversarial mission of modernism and fully aware of the social complacency and cultural conservatism arrayed against them.
Jul 6, 2020 · The poem concludes with an emphasis on London’s future as a great trade seaport, interacting with the countries once its enemies. Mainly through Dryden’s energy, the poem concludes on an optimistic note, despite the desolation it has described. Miner, Earl, ed. Selected Poetry and Prose of John Dryden.
In the excerpts chosen by the Norton editors, "Annus Mirabilis" concludes with a distinctly river- and ocean-oriented, naval view of London's place in the world. Previous empires centered in Macedonia (Alexander) and Rome depended on armies and land-travel to conquer and maintain their colonies.
