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Music

Haggin, B. H. | June 3, 1939 issue

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The article focuses on two books on Jazz music. "American Jazz Music," by Wilder Hobson and "Jazz: Hot and Hybrid," by Winthrop Sargeant. In subsequent chapters Hobson discusses the origins of the jazz language, its characteristics of tone, rhythm, melody, and harmony, its use by the jazz musicians. He does this with warmth and color that make the art and its practitioners come alive in a superb way. And as he goes along he refers to thirty records which get a concentrated chapter at the end. Sargeant, in his book, establishes in greater and more precise detail than Hobson the origin and development of the music and its relations to other types of music.

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BOOKS; AMERICAN Jazz Music (Book); HOBSON, Wilder; SARGEANT, Winthrop; MUSICIANS; JAZZ musicians; JAZZ: Hot & Hybrid (Book)
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