Cookin' : Hard Bop and Soul Jazz, 1954-65

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• ISBN13: 9780857866202
• ISBN10: 0857866206
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2012-09-01
• Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd

Summary

Following on from Giant Steps, comes the second instalment in Kenny Mathieson's series of jazz histories.Cookin' examines the birth and development of two of the key jazz styles of the post-war era, hard bop and its related offshoot, soul jazz. Hard bop was the most exciting jazz style of its day, and remains at the core of the modern jazz mainstream even now. It drew on the twin poles of bebop and the blues for its foundation, spiced up with gospel, Latin and rhythm and blues influences.The book looks at the founding fathers of the form, Art Blakey and Horace Silver, and goes on to trace the music through its peak decade.

Author Biography

Kenny Mathieson is the author of Giant Steps: Bebop and the Creators of Modern Jazz 1945-1965.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Author's Note-2012	p. ix
The Hardening of Bebop	p. 1
Art Blakely and The Jazz Messengers	p. 11
Horace Silver	p. 33
Jimmy Smith	p. 53
Dexter Gordon / Wardell Gray	p. 69
J.J. Johnson	p. 89
Modern Jazz Quartet	p. 107
Cannonball Adderley / Nat Adderley	p. 127
Lee Morgan / Hank Mobley	p. 143
Wes Montgomery	p. 164
Kenny Dorham / Howard McGhee	p. 181
Donald Byrd / Blue Mitchell / Booker Little	p. 201
Sonny Stitt / Johnny Griffin	p. 223
James Moody / Serge Chaloff / Jimmy Heath	p. 241
Lou Donaldson / Stanley Turpentine	p. 257
Booker Ervin / Tina Brooks / Gigi Gryce	p. 273
Sonny Clark / Elmo Hope / Wynton Kelly	p. 297
Kenny Burrell / Grant Green	p. 325
The Jazztet	p. 341
Jackie McLean	p. 357
Selected Further Reading	p. 375
Index	p. 379
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