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Article: Early Twentieth-Century Brass Idioms: Art, Jazz, and other Popular Traditions.(Book review)
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Early Twentieth-Century Brass Idioms: Art, Jazz, and Other Popular Traditions. Edited by Howard T. Weiner. (Studies in Jazz, no. 58.) Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2009. [xvii. 168 p. ISBN-13: 9780810862456. $50.] Illustrations, music examples, bibliography, index.
The thirteen articles in this slender volume represent the proceedings of a November 2005 conference held at the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University, and organized by the Institute and the Historic Brass Society (HBS). Two things about this conference made it a milestone event. First, despite the prominence in early jazz of trumpet, cornet, trombone and other brass instruments, there had ...