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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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1 day ago · In this ode to Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and more, James Kaplan evokes a pivotal moment in modern music. It was modern jazz's annus mirabilis. As Kaplan writes in his book about trumpeter Davis, saxophonist Coltrane and pianist Evans — three mid-century geniuses — 1959 brought on “jazz's future with ruthless speed.”.
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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.
“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 ...
Apr 22, 2021 · 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?
Annus mirabilis (pl. anni mirabiles) is a Latin phrase that means "marvelous year", "wonderful year", ... which saw the emergence of modern science in Europe.
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.
