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Contents

• IN THIS SECTION:
• 1.) BRIEF
• 2.) COMPREHENSIVE
• BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:
• Chapter 1: Introducing Jazz
• Chapter 2: Listening to Jazz
• Chapter 3: The Birth of Jazz
• Chapter 4: Early Jazz
• Chapter 5: The Swing Era
• Chapter 6: Bebop and Modern Jazz
• Chapter 7: Mainstream Jazz
• Chapter 8: Free and Exploratory Jazz
• Chapter 9: Fusion
• Chapter 10: Latin Jazz
• Chapter 11: Jazz Worldwide
• Chapter 12: Jazz Forward
• COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:
• Chapter 1: Introducing Jazz - Tad Lathrop and John Edward Hasse
• Take Note
• ISSUES: Jazz as an "American" Art Form by Richard Carlin
• STYLE/TECHNIQUE: Listening with Untrained Ears by Tad Lathrop
• First Listening
• Listening with Untrained Ears
• Defining Jazz: A Beginning
• Improvisation in Jazz
• Other Dimensions of Jazz
• Jazz and Society
• Jazz and the Arts
• Social Life and Issues
• Jazz and Historic Trends
• National Identity
• Racial Identity
• ISSUES: Jazz as African-American Music by Tad Lathrop
• Cultural Significance
• Chapter Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Key Terms and Key People
• Chapter 2: Listening to Jazz - Tad Lathrop and John Edward Hasse
• Take Note
• Listening Focus: Melody
• Listening Tips for Jazz Melody
• Listening Focus: Harmony
• Listening Tips for Jazz Harmony
• Listening Focus: Rhythm
• Listening Tips for Jazz Rhythm
• Listening Focus: Form and Structure
• Chorus Form
• Compound Form
• Listening Tips for Jazz Form and Structure
• Listening Focus: Color and Texture
• Listening Tips for Jazz Color and Texture
• Listening Focus: Voice, Feel, and Expression
• Listening Tips for Voice, Feel, and Expression
• Listening Focus: Improvisation
• Listening Tips for Jazz Improvisation
• Listening Focus: Style and Experimentation
• Listening Tips for Style and Experimentation
• Musicians' Roles, Individual and Collective
• STYLE/TECHNIQUE: The Team Sport of Jazz by John Edward Hasse
• Listening Tips for Musicians' Interaction
• Jazz as an Art Form
• STYLE/TECHNIQUE: Standard Practices in Jazz
• Listening Tips Wrap-Up
• Chapter Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Key Terms and Key People
• Chapter 3: The Birth of Jazz - John Edward Hasse
• Take Note
• Timeline
• Old-World Roots
• African Influences
• LISTENING FOCUS: Simpa (Fire)
• European Influences
• New Orleans
• New Orleans' Six Jazz-Creating Conditions
• LISTENING GUIDE: In Gloryland
• HISTORY/CULTURE: Parading with a Brass Band by Michael White
• Musical Antecedents
• The Blues
• LISTENING FOCUS: Old John Henry Died on the Mountain
• LISTENING FOCUS: Boll Weevil
• JAZZ CLASSICS: St. Louis Blues
• Ragging and Ragtime
• LISTENING GUIDE: Maple Leaf Rag
• ISSUES: The Ragtime Wars
• Jazz: An Improvisational Music for Dancing
• New Orleans Notables
• LISTENING FOCUS: Livery Stable Blues,
• New Orleans Style and "Jass" Variants
• JAZZ CLASSICS: Tiger Rag by Jack Stewart
• Chapter Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Key Terms and Key People
• Chapter 4: Early Jazz - Michael Brooks
• Take Note
• Timeline
• Chicago
• LISTENING FOCUS: Dipper Mouth Blues
• LISTENING GUIDE: West End Blues
• LISTENING GUIDE: Black Bottom Stomp
• Kansas City
• New York
• White Bands
• JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz and Classical Music: The First Half of the 20th Century by Jeffrey Magee
• Harlem and the Cotton Club
• LISTENING GUIDE: Black and Tan Fantasy
• HISTORY/CULTURE: The Cotton Club by John Edward Hasse
• JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz and Tap by Rusty Frank
• Vocalists
• Jazz Arrangers of the '20s
• Regional Bands
• ISSUES: Jazz: Musical Virtue or Vice? by Tad Lathrop
• Chapter Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Key Terms and Key People
• Chapter 5: The Swing Era - John Edward Hasse
• Take Note
• Timeline
• Jazz: A Mass Attraction
• JAZZ AND THE ARTS: The Swing Dances
• STYLE/TECHNIQUE: Big Band, Big Sound by Tad Lathrop
• The Great Black Bands
• HISTORY/CULTURE: Stompin' at the Savoy
• LISTENING GUIDE: Ko-Ko
• LISTENING GUIDE: One O'Clock Jump
• The Great White Bands
• LISTENING GUIDE: Honeysuckle Rose
• Big-Band Care and Maintenance
• All-Women Bands
• Shapers of the Sound
• STYLE/TECHNIQUE: What Does an Arranger Do?
• Anatomy of an Arrangement
• Small Groups and Solo Artists
• Solo Instrumentalists
• LISTENING FOCUS: Body and Soul
• Singers
• HISTORY/CULTURE: John Hammond: Talent Scout, Jazz Catalyst
• HISTORY/CULTURE: The New Orleans Revival
• The End of the Swing Era
• STYLE/TECHNIQUE: Boogie-Woogie
• Chapter Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Key Terms and Key People
• Chapter 6: Bebop and Modern Jazz - Bob Blumenthal
• Take Note
• Timeline
• The Postwar Jazz Scene
• HISTORY/CULTURE: After Hours at Minton's
• Parker, Gillespie, and the Birth of Bebop
• LISTENING GUIDE: Shaw 'Nuff
• ISSUES: Boppers Versus Moldy Figs by John Edward Hasse
• LISTENING GUIDE: Embraceable You, Take A
• STYLE/TECHNIQUE: Old Chords, New Melodies
• HISTORY/CULTURE: Swing Street by Tad Lathrop
• HISTORY/CULTURE:: Big Bands in the Modern Era
• HISTORY/CULTURE: Norman Granz and Jazz at the Philharmonic
• ISSUES: The Jazz Musician as Outsider
• Piano Modernists
• LISTENING GUIDE: Misterioso
• JAZZ CLASSICS: 'Round Midnight by David Baker
• Cool Jazz and the West Coast Scene
• LISTENING GUIDE: Boplicity
• JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz and Film by Krin Gabbard
• Beyond the Cool
• JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz Poetry by Sascha Feinstein
• Chapter Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Key Terms and Key People
• Chapter 7: Mainstream Jazz - Neil Tesser
• Take Note
• Timeline
• Setting the Stage
• Miles Ahead
• The Birth of Hard Bop
• LISTENING GUIDE: The Preacher
• HISTORY/CULTURE: New York Nights by Tad Lathrop
• West-Coast Bop
• STYLE/TECHNIQUE: Breaks and Fours by David Baker
• Three Tenor Torchbearers: Gordon, Rollins, and Coltrane
• LISTENING GUIDE: Giant Steps
• TWO TAKES ON THE PIANO
• LISTENING GUIDE: Blue Rondo a la Turk
• Soul Jazz
• ISSUES: Jazz and Religion by John Edward Hasse
• HISTORY/CULTURE: Down Beat and the Jazz Magazines
• HISTORY/CULTURE: Jazz Festivals
• Continuing Traditions
• JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz on Television by Larry Appelbaum
• Vocalists of the Mainstream Era
• JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz and Fiction by Gerald Early
• Alternate Currents
• JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz and Visual Art by Donna M. Cassidy
• LISTENING GUIDE: So What
• Chapter Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Key Terms and Key People
• Chapter 8: Free and Exploratory Jazz - John Litweiler
• Take Note
• Timeline
• 1959: A Turning Point in Jazz History
• ISSUES: Jazz: The Sound of Freedom by Tad Lathrop and John Litweiler
• Free-Jazz Ancestors
• Free-Jazz Innovations
• Sonic Freedom
• Harmonic Freedom
• Formal Freedom
• Rhythmic Freedom
• STYLE/TECHNIQUE: How to Listen to Free Jazz
• Free-Jazz Innovators
• Coleman, Taylor, and Coltrane
• LISTENING GUIDE: Ramblin'
• HISTORY/CULTURE: The Loft Scene
• Jazz Underground
• Other Free Instrumentalists
• LISTENING GUIDE: Ghosts (First Variation)
• LISTENING GUIDE: Bush Magic
• HISTORY/CULTURE: Jazz Cooperatives
• Free Spaces
• JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz on Radio by William H. Kenney, John Edward Hasse, and Tad Lathrop
• Experimental Composers
• JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz and Classical Music: The Second Half of the Twentieth Century
• ISSUES: The Growing Role of Women in Jazz
• Chapter Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Key Terms and Key People
• Chapter 9: Fusion - Stephen F. Pond
• Take Note
• Timeline
• Defining Fusion Jazz
• Foreshadowing Fusion
• Early Mixes
• Rock, Funk, and the Climate for Fusion
• Early Fusions
• Miles Davis: Fusion Pioneer
• LISTENING GUIDE: Miles Runs the Voodoo Down(single version)
• Fusion in the Early '70s
• STYLE/DEVELOPMENT: Offspring of Bitches Brew
• Lifetime
• Mahavishnu Orchestra
• Weather Report
• LISTENING GUIDE: Birdland
• Return to Forever
• Headhunters
• LISTENING GUIDE: Watermelon Man
• HISTORY/CULTURE: The Soul-Funk Connection
• R&B Fusion
• Polishing and Popularizing Fusion
• ISSUES: Jazz Versus Fusion
• Later Fusions
• LISTENING GUIDE: Bright Size Life
• Conclusino
• HISTORY/CULTURE: Hip-Hop and Jazz by William E. Smith
• JAZZ CLASSICS: Post-Mainstream Jazz Standards by David Baise
• Chapter Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Key Terms and Key People
• Chapter 10: Latin Jazz - Isabelle Leymarie, Tad Lathrop, and John Edward Hasse
• Take Note
• Common Sources, Different Sounds
• ISSUES: Music of Hope and Survival by Tad Lathrop
• A Heritage of Rhythm and Percussion
• Cuban Roots
• STYLE/TECHNIQUE: Cuban Rhythms by Isabelle Leymarie
• Brazilian Roots
• STYLE/TECHNIQUE: Brazilian Rhythms by Isabelle Leymarie
• STYLE/TECHNIQUE: Comparing Aspects of North American, Afro-Cuban, and Brazilian Jazz by Tad Lathrop
• Early Latin Influences on Jazz
• JAZZ CLASSICS: Caravan by John Edward Hasse
• Cuban Music and Jazz
• LISTENING GUIDE: Manteca
• LISTENING GUIDE: Airegin
• Brazilian Music and Jazz
• LISTENING GUIDE: The Girl from Ipanema,
• More Sounds from the Caribbean
• Later Trends in Latin and Caribbean Jazz
• Chapter Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Key Terms and Key People
• Chapter 11: Jazz Worldwide - Kevin Whitehead
• Take Note
• Jazz in Europe
• The Early Years
• HISTORY/CULTURE: Le Jazz Hot: Jazz in Paris Between the Wars by Philippe Baudoin
• LISTENING GUIDE: Minor Swing
• Controversies
• The War Years and After
• ISSUES: Jazz Under the Nazis by Rainer Lotz
• Regional Conceptions of Jazz
• Home-grown European Musicians and Styles
• Jazz in Asia and Oceania
• LISTENING GUIDE: Ting Ning
• Jazz in the Middle East
• Jazz in Africa
• South Africa
• LISTENING GUIDE: Mannenberg Revisited
• Ethiopia
• Senegal
• Other Locales
• Global Jazz in the 21st Century
• Chapter Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Key Terms and Key People
• Chapter 12: Jazz Forward - Jose Antonio Bowen
• Take Note
• The Continuing Life of Mainstream Acoustic Jazz
• HISTORY/CULTURE: Institutional Jazz Programs by John Edward Hasse
• HISTORY/CULTURE: Jazz Museums by John Edward Hasse
• Wynton Marsalis and the Hard-Bop Revival
• LISTENING GUIDE: Down the Avenue
• HISTORY/CULTURE: The Big-Band Revival by Calvin Wilson and Tad Lathrop
• Avant-Garde Jazz Continues to Grow
• STYLE/TECHNIQUE: So Solos Aren't Important After All?
• New Collectives and Ethnic Jazz
• ISSUES: Jazz and Race Revisited
• LISTENING GUIDE: The Glide Was in the Ride
• Reenvisioning Jazz
• LISTENING GUIDE: Planet Rock
• Vocal Jazz
• HISTORY/CULTURE: Vocal Groups
• HISTORY/CULTURE: Jazz in the Marketplace
• Conclusion
• Chapter Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Key Terms and Key People
• Glossary
• Notes
• Essential Jazz Reading
• The Contributors
• Credits
• Index