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Essential Jazz : The First 100 Years

by: Martin, Henry; Waters, Keith

ISBN: 9780534638108 | 0534638104

Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Schirmer
Pub. Date: 7/5/2004

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A complete jazz course at one unbeatable price, ESSENTIAL JAZZ, THE FIRST 100 YEARS and its complete listening package explores the development of jazz from its nineteenth-century roots in ragtime and blues, through swing and bebop, to fusion and contemporary jazz styles. Unique in its up-to-date coverage, ESSENTIAL JAZZ devotes a full third of its length to performers of the 1960s to the present day. Extensive, accessible Listening Guides tie the history of jazz music directly to the CD selections, giving newcomers and aficionados alike a true... MORE feel for the vibrant, ever-changing sound of jazz. Free with every book, two CDs include all the musical examples from the text, as well as an "Audio Jazz Primer" that allow you to hear the key terms, basic music concepts, and jazz instruments discussed in the book.

INTRODUCTION. The Three Fundamentals of Western Music. Dynamics and Articulation. Instruments of Jazz. Form and Organization. Jazz Performance Terms. Ways of Listening to Jazz. Key Terms. 1. ROOTS. African-American Music in the Nineteenth Century. Listening Guide: "Kasuan", People of Dagomba, Ghana (CD). European Music in the Nineteenth Century. Early African-American Music. Listening Guide: "Daniel", Georgia Sea Island Singers (CD). Listening Guide: "Field Hands'' Call", Grace/Dodson (CD). Minstrelsy. Ragtime. Listening Guide: "Maple Leaf Rag", Scott Joplin (CD). Ragtime''s Relation to Jazz Listening Guide: "Maple Leaf Rag", Jelly Roll Morton CD. The Blues. Listening Guide: "Backwater Blues", Bessie Smith. Questions and Topics for Discussion. Key Terms. 2. EARLY JAZ Z. The Shift from Ragtime to Jazz. New Orleans. The Evolution of the Early Jazz Band. The Exodus from New Orleans. The Migration North. The ODJB and the First Jazz Recording. Listening Guide: "Tiger Rag", Original Dixieland Jazz Band CD. Listening Guide "Dippermouth Blues", King Oliver (CD). Louis Armstrong. Listening Guide: "Hotter Than That", Louis Armstrong. The Chicagoans and Bix Beiderbecke Listening Guide "Singin'' the Blues", Beiderbecke/Trumbauer (CD). Jazz in New York. Jazz in Europe Listening Guide: "Tiger Rag", Quitette du Hot Club de France (CD). The Harlem Renaissance. Listening Guide: "Tiger Rag", Art Tatum (CD). Whiteman and Grishwin. Beginnings of the Big Bands. Listening Guide: "East St. LouisToodle-Oo", Duke Ellington (CD). Questions and Topics for Discussion. Key Terms. 3. THE SWING ERA. Overview: A Decade of Swing. The Big Band in the Swing Era. Listening Guide: "Down South Camp Meeting", Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra (CD). The Changing Role of the Rhythm Section (Audio Primer). Territory Bands Listening Guide: Mary''s Idea, Andy Kirk and his Twelve Clouds of Joy (CD). Count Basie. Listening Guide: "Shoe Shine Boy", Jones-Smith (CD). Beny Goodman-King of Swing. Listening Guide: "Avalon", The Benny Goodman Quartet (CD). Ellington After the Cotton Club. Listening Guide: "Sepia Panorama." Influential Big Bands of the Swing Era. Listening Guide: "Vi Vigor", International Sweethearts of Swing. Swing Era Stylists. Listening Guide: "Body and Soul", Coleman Hawkins (CD). Listening Guide: "Body and Soul", Billie Holiday (CD). Ella Fitzgerald: Sixty Years of Son. Questions and Topics for Discussion. Key Terms. 4. THE BEBOP ERA. Revolution Versus Evolution. Characteristics of the Bebop Style. The Historical Origins of Bebop. The Architects of Bebop. Listening Guide: "Salt Peanuts", Parker/Gillespie (CD). Listening Guide: "Manteca", Dizzy Gillespie Big Band (CD Listening Guide: "Four in One", Thelonious Monk. Questions and Topics for Discussion. Key Terms. 5. THE FIFTIES AND NEW JAZZ SUBSTYLES. Jazz and the New Substyles. Cool Stylists. Listening Guide: "Jeru", Miles Davis (CD). Jazz on the West Coast. Third-Stream Music. Piano Stylists. Vocalists. Hard Bop and Funky/ Soul Jazz. Listening Guide: "Moanin''", Art Blakey (CD). Listening Guide: "Hora Decubitus", Charles Mingus (CD). Listening Guide: "Prowell''s Prances", Brown/Roach (CD). Miles Davis in the 1950''s. Listening Guide: "So What", Miles Davis (CD). Questions and Topics for Discussion. Key Terms. 6. THE SIXTIES. The 1960''s Avant-Garde. Avant-Garde Jazz and Black Activism. Listening Guide: "Ghosts: First Variation", Albert Ayler Trio (CD). Ornette Coleman and Free Jazz Listening Guide: "Street Woman", Ornette Coleman (CD). John Coltrane. Listening Guide: "Acknowledgement", John Coltrane (CD). Coltrane and the Avant-Garde. Cecil Taylor. Chicago: AACM, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and Anthony Braxton Other Avant-Garde Performers. The 1960''s Mainstream. Miles Davis in the Sixties. Pianists. Listening Guide: "Peri''s Scope", Bill Evans. Funky/Soul Jazz. The Hard Bop Legacy. Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard. Questions and Topics for Discussion. Key Terms. 7. JAZZ-ROC K AND JAZZ-FUNK FUSION. The Appeal of Ro

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