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Beneath Missouri Skies

Carolyn Glenn Brewer
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      The New Yorker recently referred to Pat Metheny as 'possibly the most influential jazz guitarist of the past five decades.' A native of Lee's Summit, Missouri, just southeast of Kansas City, Metheny started playing in pizza parlors at age fourteen. By the time he graduated from high school he was the first-call guitarist for Kansas City jazz clubs, private clubs, and jazz festivals. Now 66, he attributes his early success to the local musical environment he was brought up in and the players and teachers who nurtured his talent and welcomed him into the jazz community. Metheny's twenty Grammys in ten categories speak to his versatility and popularity. Despite five decades of interviews, none have conveyed in detail his stories about his teenage years. Beneath Missouri Skies also reveals important details about jazz in Kansas City during the sixties and early seventies, often overlooked in histories of Kansas City jazz. Yet this time of cultural change was characterized by an outstanding level of musicianship. Author Carolyn Glenn Brewer shows how his keen sense of ensemble had its genesis in his school band under the guidance of a beloved band director. Drawn from news accounts, archival material, interviews, and remembrances, to which the author had unique access, Beneath Missouri Skies portrays a place and time from which Metheny still draws inspiration and strength.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Carolyn Glenn Brewer EAN: 9781574418231 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 548 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University of North Texas Press,U.S. DATE PUBLISHED: 2021-06-14 CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Jazz, Popular music, Composers and songwriters, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Biography: arts and entertainment

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      Carolyn Glenn Brewer is a retired band director and active social historian. She has written for Jam Magazine and previously published Changing the Tune: The Kansas City Women's Jazz Festival with UNT Press. She has played clarinet in bands, chamber groups, and orchestras throughout the Kansas City area. She lives in Kansas City with her husband and Bernese Mountain dog, Herbie.
      The New Yorker recently referred to Pat Metheny as 'possibly the most influential jazz guitarist of the past five decades.' A native of Lee's Summit, Missouri, just southeast of Kansas City, Metheny started playing in pizza parlors at age fourteen. By the time he graduated from high school he was the first-call guitarist for Kansas City jazz clubs, private clubs, and jazz festivals. Now 66, he attributes his early success to the local musical environment he was brought up in and the players and teachers who nurtured his talent and welcomed him into the jazz community. Metheny's twenty Grammys in ten categories speak to his versatility and popularity. Despite five decades of interviews, none have conveyed in detail his stories about his teenage years. Beneath Missouri Skies also reveals important details about jazz in Kansas City during the sixties and early seventies, often overlooked in histories of Kansas City jazz. Yet this time of cultural change was characterized by an outstanding level of musicianship. Author Carolyn Glenn Brewer shows how his keen sense of ensemble had its genesis in his school band under the guidance of a beloved band director. Drawn from news accounts, archival material, interviews, and remembrances, to which the author had unique access, Beneath Missouri Skies portrays a place and time from which Metheny still draws inspiration and strength.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Carolyn Glenn Brewer EAN: 9781574418231 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 548 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University of North Texas Press,U.S. DATE PUBLISHED: 2021-06-14 CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Jazz, Popular music, Composers and songwriters, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Biography: arts and entertainment

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      Carolyn Glenn Brewer is a retired band director and active social historian. She has written for Jam Magazine and previously published Changing the Tune: The Kansas City Women's Jazz Festival with UNT Press. She has played clarinet in bands, chamber groups, and orchestras throughout the Kansas City area. She lives in Kansas City with her husband and Bernese Mountain dog, Herbie.

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