Description
Walter Gaeta
Duke Ellington and Alvin Ailey
Jazz and dance
Prefaces by Pino Jodice
pages 136
price € 17,90
size cm 16×23, paperback
Scritti di Musica Series
ISBN 978-88-31274-87-6
- Accurate historical and stylistic profile on Ellington and Ailey.
- Comparison of the language of jazz music with that of dance.
- Analysis of the jazz opera Night Creatures by Duke Ellington and the choreography composed by Alvin Ailey for this opera.
- Full of colored photos of the various moments of Ailey’s choreography commented with excerpts from Ellington’s score.
- With the direct testimony of the dancer and choreographer Giacomo Molinari who worked for the company of Alvin Ailey.
- Music, videos and sitology available from Qr-code.
Reader profile
- Jazz musicians
- Dancers
- Choreographers
- Musicologists
- Jazz fans
- Dance enthusiasts
Author and preface author profile
Walter Gaeta, pianist, composer, teacher, graduated in classical piano at the Conservatory of Pescara and in Jazz Music at the Conservatory of Rome. He has played in Italy and Europe with Fabrizio Bosso, Max Ionata, Kelly Joyce, Antonella Ruggiero and many others. He has published compositions, methods and essays for Eufonia and Sinfonica. He teaches Piano Jazz at the Aquila Conservatory.
Pino Jodice, pianist, composer, arranger and conductor of the Jazz orchestra, teaches Jazz Composition at the Milan Conservatory.
