Edition |
Fourth edition. |
Description |
xiii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm |
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-218) and index. |
Contents |
1. Understanding and defining jazz -- The instruments of jazz -- Melody, harmony, rhythm, and form -- Some commonly used jazz terms -- 2. African music and the pre-jazz era -- The 19th-century African American -- Slavery -- Slaves and Christianity -- Minstrelsy -- The Blues -- Texas blues -- Ragtime -- Scott Joplin (1868-1917) -- 3. Jazz takes root -- History of New Orleans -- The Crescent City -- Brass bands -- Funerals -- New Orleans ethnic mix -- The earliest jazz bands and musicians -- The cornet kings of New Orleans -- Charles "Buddy" Bolden (1877-1931) Freddie Keppard (1889-1933) -- Joe "King" Oliver (1885-1938) -- Harlem stride -- Boogie-Woogie -- The first jazz recording -- 4. The jazz age -- Chicago -- The great migration -- The Black Belt -- The Chicago club scene -- Recording in Chicago -- Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) : cornet / trumpet / vocal / bandleader -- White Chicago -- The Austin High Gang -- The Chicago style -- Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931) : cornet / piano / composer -- Classic blues -- The blues as popular music -- Race records -- The Empress of the blues -- 5. New York and Kansas City -- The Harlem Renaissance -- The New York club scene -- Dancing and the dance halls -- Tin Pan Alley -- The music business and the birth of radio -- The earliest New York bands -- Jazz in New York : 1920 -- Birth of the jazz big band -- Paul Whiteman (1890-1967) : violin / bandleader -- Fletcher Henderson (1987-1952) : piano / composer / arranger / bandleader -- Duke Ellington part I. : 1899-1931 -- The Pendergast machine -- The Kansas City club scene -- The Kansas City jam session -- The Kansas City style -- The Kansas City bands and musicians -- Territory bands -- The bands -- The shouters -- The demise of the Kansas City scene. |
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6. The swing era -- Swing and popular culture -- The swing band -- Important orchestras of the swing era : Goodman, Ellington and Basie -- Benny Goodman (1909-1986) : clarinet / bandleader -- Duke Ellington part II : 1931-1974 -- William "Count" Basie (1904-1984) : piano / bandleader -- Other important swing era bandleaders -- Chick Webb (1909-1939) : drummer / bandleader -- Jimmie Lunceford (1902-1947) : bandleader -- Cab Calloway (1907-1994) : singer / bandleader -- Artie Shaw (1910-2004) : clarinet / bandleader -- Charlie Barnet (1913-1991) : saxophones / bandleader -- Other important swing-era jazz stars -- The tenor titans : Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young -- Billie Holliday (1915-1959) : vocal -- 7. The bebop revolution -- Winds of change -- The bebop counter-culture -- Minton's, Clark Monroe's, and "The Street" -- Bird, Diz, and Monk -- Charlie Parker (1920-1955) : alto sax / composer -- John Birks "Dizzie" Gillespie (1917-1993) : trumpet / composer / bandleader -- Thelonious Sphere Monk (1917-1982) : piano / composer -- Other important bebop figures -- Bud Powell (1924-1966) : piano / composer -- Kenny Clarke (1914*-1985) : drums -- Charlie Christian (1916-1942) : electric guitar -- Max Roach (1924-2007) : drums / composer / bandleader -- Dexter Gordon (1923-1990) : tenor sax -- Theodore "Fats" Navarro (1923-1950) : trumpet -- Tadd Dameron (1917-1965) : piano / composer / arranger -- Oscar Peterson (1925-2007) : piano -- J.J. Johnson (1924-2001) : trombone -- Reaction to bebop and later developments -- The backlash -- The New Orleans revival -- Modern big bands from the 1940s -- 8. Fragmentation -- Cool jazz -- The modern jazz quartet -- Lennie Tristano (1919-1978) : piano / composer -- The West Coast scene -- Los Angeles and the Central Avenue scene -- Important West Coast cool musicians -- Hard bop -- The black reaction -- Important hard bop musicians -- Other jazz styles from the 1950s -- Third stream -- Soul jazz -- The piano trio -- Miles Davis part I. : 1926-1959 -- 9. The 1960s and beyond -- Free jazz -- Important free jazz musicians -- Ornette Coleman (1930- ) : alto sax / trumpet / composer / bandleader -- Cecil Taylor (1929- ) : piano / composer / bandleader -- Eric Dolphy (1928-1964) : alto sax / bass clarinet / flute / composer -- Free jazz in the 1960s -- Miles Davis part II : 1959-1991 -- John Coltrane (1926-1967) : tenor / soprano saxophones / composer -- Jazz/rock fusion -- 10. Jazz today -- Recent jazz styles -- Smooth jazz -- The globalization of jazz -- Important jazz musicians of the last 30 years -- Wynton Marsalis (1961- ) : trumpet / composer / bandleader / educator -- Keith Jarrett (1945- ) : piano / soprano sax / composer / bandleader -- Michael Brecker (1949-2007) : tenor sax / EWI / composer -- Pat Metheny (1954- ) : guitar / guitar synthesizer / composer / bandleader -- Other important jazz musicians since 1980 -- Women in jazz -- Jazz big bands -- Repertory bands -- Jazz education -- The future of jazz. |
Subject |
Jazz -- History and criticism -- Textbooks.
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Jazz -- Analysis, appreciation -- Textbooks.
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Jazz. (OCoLC)fst00982165
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Jazz -- Analysis, appreciation.
(OCoLC)fst00982167
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Textbooks. (OCoLC)fst01423863
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Textbooks.
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Added Title |
History and tradition of jazz |
ISBN |
9780757587276 |
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0757587275 |
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9781465204912 |
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1465204911 |
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9781465250650 |
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1465250654 |
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