Hot Jazz and Jazz Dance: Roger Pryor Dodge: Collected Writings, 1929-1964

by Roger Pryor Dodge

Long before Martin Williams, Gene Lees, or Gunther Schuller, Roger Pryor Dodge was writing seriously about jazz. A ballet, vaudeville, and jazz dancer, Dodge turned his critical attention to the music in the 1920s, helping to build the respect jazz has long since achieved. Now, for the first time, the essays and reviews of one of America's first great jazz critics has been collected in one volume.
Hot Jazz and Jazz Dance gathers thirty years of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195071859
• ISBN13: 9780195071856
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"