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Jazz Styles : History and Analysis
ISBN: 9780132609852 | 0132609851
Edition: 6thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
Pub. Date: 7/1/1996
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'Teaching students how to listen and what to listen for in jazz... a highly effective textbook for students who have had little or no exposure to jazz... a broad, penetrating view of jazz history... luminously clear.' - Down Beat
| 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 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
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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