Jazz: the Basics

Contents

• Introduction and
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Fundamentals
• 2. Pre-Jazz
• 3. Early Jazz Recordings
• 4. Louis Armstrong
• 5. The 1920s
• 6. The Swing Era,
• Part I : Big Bands
• 7. The Swing Era,
• Part II : Small Groups and Soloists
• 8. Bebop and the Moldy Figs
• 9. Charles Parker
• 10. Thelonious Monk
• 11. The 1950s: The Beginning of Jazz Postmodernism
• 12. Miles Davis
• 13. Avant-Garde Jazz of the 1950s and Early 1960s
• 14. John Coltrane
• 15. The 1960s,
• Part I : Inside
• 16. The 1960s,
• Part II : Free Jazz
• 17. The 1960s,
• Part III : Chicago and the AACM
• 18. Postbop Pianists
• 19. Fusion
• 20. The 1980s and New Conservatism
• 21. The Genre Busters
• 22. Lately
• Appendix Recommended Recordings