Jazz styles : history and analysis
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Jazz styles : history and analysis
Pearson Prentice Hall, c2009
10th ed
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Bibliography: p. 483-487
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
America's most widely used introduction to jazz, it teaches the chronology of jazz by showing readers how to listen and what to notice in each style.
Table of Contents
CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 INTRODUCTION
PART I BASICS OF JAZZ
2 WHAT IS JAZZ?
3 APPRECIATING JAZZ IMPROVISATION
PART II PREMODERN JAZZ
4 ORIGINS OF JAZZ
5 EARLY JAZZ: COMBO JAZZ PRIOR TO THE MIDDLE
6 SWING: THE EARLY 1930s TO THE LATE 1940s
7 DUKE ELLINGTON
8 THE COUNT BASIE BANDS
PART III MODERN JAZZ: THE EARLY 1940s to the EARLY 1960s
9 BOP: THE EARLY 1940s to the EARLY 1950s
10 COOL JAZZ
11 HARD BOP
12 MILES DAVIS, HIS GROUPS & SIDEMEN
13 JOHN COLTRANE
PART IV MODERN JAZZ: THE EARLY 1960s to the PRESENT
14 1960s and 1970s AVANT-GARDE and "FREE" JAZZ
15 BILL EVANS, HERBIE HANCOCK, CHICK COREA, and KEITH JARRETT
16 JAZZ-ROCK FUSION
17 1980 to the PRESENT
18 OTHER VOICES
APPENDICES
Appendix A: Brief Outline of Jazz Styles
Appendix B: Elements of Music
Appendix C: Strategies for Buying Recorded Music
Appendix D: A Small Basic Collection of Jazz Videos
Appendix E: Glossary
Appendix F: Supplementary Reading
Appendix G: Sources for Solo Transcriptions
Appendix H: For Musicians
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"