A new history of jazz
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A new history of jazz
Continuum, 2001
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  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
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  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 931-940
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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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