A new history of jazz
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A new history of jazz
Continuum, 2001
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Bibliography: p. 931-940
Includes index
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Alyn Shipton examines material from the string bands and francophone vocal ensembles of the plantation to the highly developed and sophisticated world of turn-of-the century African American Theatre. He continues with the major trends in jazz during the last 30 years of the 20th century.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Origins: precursors - ragtime, blues, Cajun, military and brass bands, classical elements
- classical jazz - New Orleans, Chicago in the 1920s, ODJB, Keppard, Oliver, Armstrong, Morton, Bix Beiderbecke
- piano jazz - ragtime to stride, boogie woogie, Eubie Blake, Johnson, Walter, Smith Tatum, Ammons, Yancey
- the move to larger bands - Whiteman, Goldkette, Henderson, Ellington, Russell, Goodman, Shaw, Basie, Doreys. Part 2 Interlude 1: international jazz. Part 3 From swing to bop: small groups in transition - John Kirby, Benny Carter, Coleman Hawkins, 52nd St
- birth of Bebop - Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Earl Hines, Kenny Clarke, Thelonious Monk, Oscar Pettiford
- how bop developed - rhythm
- how bop developed - soloists. Part 4 Interlude 2: dissemination of popular music. Part 5 Consolidation of bop: Earl Miles Davis, hard bop/soul jazz
- cool jazz, West Coast, Sonny Rollins. Part 6 Interlude 3: jazz singing from Armstrong to Vaughan. Part 7 New jazz: free jazz, Coltrane and Mingus, politicisation. Part 8 Interlude 4: New Orleans, traditional revival, mainstream, JATPK. Part 9 Jazz as world music: out of Africa, Latin jazz, Europe. Interlude 5: jazz singing since 1950. Part 11 Post-modern jazz: jazz fusions, big band renaissance, jazz repertory and education, urban movements, current movements.
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