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Jazz Styles: Pearson New International Edition

Jazz Styles: Pearson New International Edition

  • Author: Gridley, Mark C.

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Contents

  • 1. Table of Contents
  • 2. CD Listing
  • 1. Table of Contents
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. INTRODUCTION
  • PART I BASICS OF JAZZ
  • 2. WHAT IS JAZZ?
  • 3. APPRECIATING JAZZ IMRPOVISATION
  • PART II PREMODERN JAZZ
  • 4. ORIGINS OF JAZZ
  • 5. EARLY JAZZ: COMBO JAZZ PRIOR TO THE MIDDLE 1930s
  • 6. SWING: THE EARLY 1930s TO THE LATE 1940s
  • 7. DUKE ELLINGTON
  • 8 THE COUNT BASIE BANDS
  • PART III MODERN JAZZ: THE EARLY 1940s TO THE EARLY 1950s
  • 9. BOP: THE EARLY 1940s TO THE EARLY 1950s
  • 10. COOL JAZZ
  • 11. HARD BOP
  • 12. MILES DAVIS, HIS GROUPS & SIDEMEN
  • 13. JOHN COLTRANE
  • PART IV MODERN JAZZ: THE EARLY 1960s TO THE PRESENT
  • 14. 1960s AND 1970s AVANTE-GARDE AND "FREE" JAZZ
  • 15. BILL EVANS, HERBIE HANCOCK, CHICK COREA, AND KEITH JARRETT
  • 16. JAZZ-ROCK FUSION
  • 17. 1980 TO THE PRESENT
  • 18. OTHER VOICES
  • APPENDICES
  • APPENDIX A: BREIF OUTLINE OF JAZZ STYLES
  • APPENDIX B: ELEMENTS OF MUSIC
  • APPENDIX C: STRATEGIES FOR BUYING RECORDED MUSIC
  • APPENDIX D: A SMALL BASIC COLLECTION OF JAZZ VIDEOS
  • APPENDIX E: GLOSSARY
  • APPENDIX F: SUPPLEMENTARY READING
  • APPENDIX G: SOURCES FOR SOLO TRANSSCRIPTIONS
  • APPENDIX H: FOR MUSICIANS
  • INDEX
  • 2. CD Listing
  • Track Listing
  • Please refer to the text page number, shown in bold, to view the Listening Guide for each selection.
  • CD 1
  • African Retentions Sequence
  • 1. Street Cries of Charleston (Trad.) [0:30]. African American male street vendor; p. 51.
  • Courtesy of The Concord Music Group
  • 2. Porgy and Bess: Fisherman, Strawberry, Devil Crab (Gershwin) [0:49]. Miles Davis instrumentally imitating the cry of an African American male street vendor, accompanied by the Gil Evans Orchestra; p. 51.
  • Originally released 1959. All rights reserved by Sony Music Entertainment
  • 3. Hunter's Dance excerpt (Trad.) [0:36]. West African field recording; p. 52.
  • Courtesy of Essential Media Group
  • 4. One Day excerpt (Trad.) [0:30]. The Angelic Gospel Singers and The Dixie Hummingbirds; p. 53.
  • Originally released 1952. All rights reserved by Sony Music Entertainment
  • 5. One O'Clock Jump excerpt (Basie) [0:33]. Count Basie; p. 53.
  • Originally released 1942. All rights reserved by Sony Music Entertainment
  • 6. Birdland excerpt (J. Zawinul) [0:25]. Weather Report with Joseph Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, and Jaco Pastorius; p. 53.
  • (P) 1977 Sony Music Entertainment
  • Historic Recordings
  • 7. Dixie Jazz Band One-Step (D. LaRocca-Joe Jordan) [2:35]. The Original Dixieland Jazz Band; p. 62.
  • Originally released 1917. All rights reserved by Sony Music Entertainment
  • 8. Wolverine Blues (Morton) [3:19]. Jelly Roll Morton, Johnny Dodds, and Baby Dodds; p. 66.
  • Originally released 1927. All rights reserved by Sony Music Entertainment
  • 9. Singing the Blues (J.R. Robinson-C. Conrad-S. Lewis-J. Young) [2:58]. Frankie Trumbauer and his Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke; p. 84.
  • Originally released 1927. All rights reserved by Sony Music Entertainment
  • 10. West End Blues (J. Oliver-C. Williams) [3:14]. Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five featuring Earl Hines; p. 76.
  • Originally released 1928. All rights reserved by Sony Music Entertainment
  • 11. Hotter Than That (L. Armstrong) [2:58]. Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five; p. 80.
  • Originally released 1928. All rights reserved by Sony Music Entertainment
  • 12. Handful of Keys (Fats Waller) [2:43]. Fats Waller; p. 71.
  • Originally released 1929. All rights reserved by Sony Music Entertainment
  • 13. You've Got t