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Jazz Styles : History and Analysis
ISBN: 9780131896642 | 0131896644
Edition: 8thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2003
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Key Benefit: This broad and encompassing survey provides a rich, informative, and chronological study of jazz, with insightful commentaries on its origins, and full descriptions of the various styles of jazz and the personalities that have contributed to this innovative form of music. Key Topics: Discussions of benchmark styles with point-by-point differentiation cover early jazz, swing, bop, hard bop, cool jazz, "free" jazz, and jazz-rock fusion--highlighting the musical characteristics of each style and contrasting each successive era. Market... MORE
| Preface | p. v |
| Acknowledgements | p. xii |
| A Small Basic CD Collection | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 2 |
| Basics of Jazz | |
| What is Jazz? | p. 4 |
| Appreciating Jazz Improvisation | p. 10 |
| Premodern Jazz | |
| Origins of Jazz | p. 28 |
| Early Jazz: Combo Jazz Prior to the Middle 1930s | p. 48 |
| Swing: The Early 1930s to the L... MORE | p. 80 |
| Duke Ellington | p. 104 |
| The Count Basie Bands | p. 122 |
| Modern Jazz: The Early 1940s to the Early 1960s | |
| Bop: The Early 1940s to the Middle 1950s | p. 133 |
| Cool Jazz | p. 166 |
| Hard Bop | p. 187 |
| Miles Davis, His Groups & Sidemen | p. 214 |
| John Coltrane | p. 240 |
| Modern Jazz: The Early 1960s to the Early 1990s | |
| 1960s and 1970s Avant-Garde & "Free" Jazz | p. 256 |
| Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, & Keith Jarret | p. 282 |
| Jazz-Rock Fusion | p. 303 |
| 1980-2005 | p. 328 |
| Appendices | |
| Brief Outline of Jazz Styles | p. 355 |
| Elements of Music | p. 356 |
| Strategies for Album Buying | p. 380 |
| A Small Basic Collection of Jazz Videos | p. 387 |
| Glossary | p. 388 |
| Supplementary Reading | p. 392 |
| Sources for Solo Transcriptions | p. 397 |
| For Musicians | p. 399 |
| Index | p. 410 |
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Mark C. Gridley is an active jazz musician and educator. He has done field research in Africa, the Caribbean, and all the jazz centers of America. His books have been translated into five foreign languages. His articles appear in the Grove Dictionaries of Music, Encyclopaedia Britannica, The Musical Quarterly, The Black Perspective in Music, The Instrumentalist, and Jazz Educators Journal.
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