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We were surrounded by giants
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the history of jazz in Brooklyn, 1910-1980
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History of jazz in Brooklyn, 1910-1980
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Gardner
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Vincent Ramal
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1972-
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Vincent Gardner
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Lewis
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Lewis Porter
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Advisory Committee
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - Newark
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2013
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2013-05
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The purpose of this research is to chronicle the vastly under-documented independent jazz environment that existed within the borough of Brooklyn, the manner in which it developed, and to a lesser extent examine the related social and socio-economic conditions that brought about its development, and those which also came to be as a result of its continuation throughout the years described. This has been done by drawing upon several sources of information, including examination of historical newspapers, published books on jazz and related topics, interviews with primary figures from the Brooklyn jazz scene, and to a lesser extent the author’s own personal recollections from living and playing jazz in the borough. A common misconception when considering the Brooklyn jazz scene is that it was miniscule when compared to that of Manhattan during the years of the music’s most popular, most creative, and most commercially viable period. This research has found that not only was this not the case, but that it is possible that for a number of years the overall scene in Brooklyn was as active as that in Manhattan, and in the case of a particular neighborhood, Bedford-Stuyvesant, the number of jazz venues present there may have even eclipsed that of its Manhattan counterpart, Harlem, and possibly that of the entire island. During the course of this research several items of newly discovered information have been presented, and in other instances the content of previously known information has been expanded upon and collected in this singular location for the first time. Among these are items such as the whereabouts and activity of pioneering early jazz trumpeter Freddie Keppard during the summers of 1919 and 1920, an extensive documentation of the jazz activity and programming tendencies of Brooklyn’s downtown theaters during their most active periods, the Brooklyn origins of the inspiration to Ella Fitzgerald’s hit recording “A Tisket, A Tasket”, the whereabouts and musical activities of many of the important sidemen which contributed to the early Bebop and Rhythm and Blues periods, and a detailed picture of the history and activity of many important Brooklyn jazz clubs, such as Tony’s Grandean, The Continental, The Putnam Central, and Soldier Meyer’s.
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Jazz History and Research
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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xxvii, 772 p. : ill.
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M.A.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Vincent Ramal Gardner
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Jazz--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century
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Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--History--20th century
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Graduate School - Newark Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/T3DV1HHR
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ETD graduate
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Vincent
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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