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Jazz : essential listening / Scott DeVeaux and Gary Giddins

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., c2011Edition: First EditionDescription: xx, 404 pages : illustrations ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 9780393935639
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • ML 3508 .D48 2011
Contents:
Part I. Musical orientation. Musical elements and instruments ; Jazz form and improvisation -- Part II. Early Jazz. The roots of jazz ; New Orleans ; New York in the 1920's ; Louis Armstrong and the first great soloists -- Part III. The swing era. Swing bands ; Count Basie and Duke Ellington ; A world of soloists ; Rhythm in transition -- Part IV. Modern jazz. Bebop ; Cool jaz and hard bop ; Jazz composition in the 1950's ; Modality: Miles Davis and John Coltrane -- Part V. The avant-garde, fusion, historicism, and now. The avant-garde ; Fusion I: R & B, singers, and Latin jazz ; Jazz, rock, and beyond ; Historicism: Jazz on jazz ; Jazz today.
Summary: Jazz: Essential Listening" provides all the materials students need to listen to, understand, and love jazz. Written by two master storytellers, this new brief text combines a dynamic listening experience with vivid narrative history, must-hear masterworks, and a superior eMedia package to reveal the excitement of America's quintessential music. Authors Scott DeVeaux and Gary Giddins write with intellectual bite, eloquence, and the passion of unabashed fans. They explain what jazz is, where it came from, how it works, and who created it, all within the broader context of American life and culture.
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Includes index.

Part I. Musical orientation. Musical elements and instruments ; Jazz form and improvisation -- Part II. Early Jazz. The roots of jazz ; New Orleans ; New York in the 1920's ; Louis Armstrong and the first great soloists -- Part III. The swing era. Swing bands ; Count Basie and Duke Ellington ; A world of soloists ; Rhythm in transition -- Part IV. Modern jazz. Bebop ; Cool jaz and hard bop ; Jazz composition in the 1950's ; Modality: Miles Davis and John Coltrane -- Part V. The avant-garde, fusion, historicism, and now. The avant-garde ; Fusion I: R & B, singers, and Latin jazz ; Jazz, rock, and beyond ; Historicism: Jazz on jazz ; Jazz today.

Jazz: Essential Listening" provides all the materials students need to listen to, understand, and love jazz. Written by two master storytellers, this new brief text combines a dynamic listening experience with vivid narrative history, must-hear masterworks, and a superior eMedia package to reveal the excitement of America's quintessential music. Authors Scott DeVeaux and Gary Giddins write with intellectual bite, eloquence, and the passion of unabashed fans. They explain what jazz is, where it came from, how it works, and who created it, all within the broader context of American life and culture.

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