Jazz The First 100 Years (with Audio CD)

by Martin, Henry; Waters, Keith

• ISBN13: 9780534628048
• ISBN10: 0534628044
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-02
• Publisher: Schirmer

Summary

Explore the development of jazz music with JAZZ: THE FIRST 100 YEARS with accompanying audio CD! From its nineteenth-century roots in blues and ragtime, through swing and bebop, to fusion and contemporary jazz styles, this music text gives you a true feel for the vibrant, ever-changing sound of jazz. Learning is made easy with The Audio Jazz Primer CD that allows you to hear the key terms, basic music concepts, and jazz instruments discussed in the book. Key terms, topics for discussion, and the jazz basics appendix help you master difficult concepts.

Table of Contents

Listening Guide CD Tracks
Preface	p. xix
About the Authors	p. xxvi
Roots	p. 2
African American Music in the Nineteenth Century	p. 4
Sources of Musical Diversity	p. 4
The Preservation of African Traditions	p. 4
European Music in the Nineteenth Century	p. 8
Instrumentation, Form, and Harmony	p. 8
Written Versus Head Arrangements	p. 10
Early African American Music	p. 10
The Character of Early African American Music	p. 11
Christianity, the Ring Shout, Spirituals, and Work Songs	p. 12
Blue Notes and Syncopation	p. 14
The Blues Scale	p. 16
Minstrelsy	p. 17
Ragtime	p. 21
Scott Joplin	p. 23
Piano Rolls	p. 25
James Scott	p. 25
Joseph Lamb	p. 26
Artie Matthews	p. 26
Ragtime's Relationship to Jazz	p. 26
The Blues	p. 28
Pioneers of the Delta Blues	p. 29
Ma Rainey	p. 31
W. C. Handy	p. 31
Blues Form	p. 33
Bessie Smith	p. 34
Characteristics of Early Jazz Singing	p. 35
Boogie-woogie and Other Forms of the Blues	p. 36
Questions and Topics for Discussion	p. 37
Additional Listening Downloads	p. 37
Key Terms	p. 37
Early Jazz	p. 38
The Shift from Ragtime to Jazz	p. 39
New Orleans	p. 42
How Did Jazz Arise in New Orleans?	p. 44
Buddy Bolden	p. 45
The Evolution of the Jazz Band	p. 46
Early Jazz Performance Terms	p. 47
Early Jazz Instruments and Their Players	p. 47
Cornet	p. 47
Trombone	p. 48
Clarinet	p. 48
Bass/Tuba	p. 49
Guitar/Banjo	p. 49
Drums	p. 49
Piano	p. 50
The Exodus from New Orleans	p. 50
The Migration North	p. 52
The Advent of Jazz Recording	p. 53
The ODJB and the First Jazz Recording	p. 55
Sidney Bechet	p. 59
King Oliver and the Creole Jazz Band	p. 60
The Evolution of Improvisation	p. 64
Questions and Topics for Discussion	p. 65
Additional Listening Downloads	p. 65
Key Terms	p. 65
Morton, Armstrong, and Beiderbecke	p. 66
Jelly Roll Morton	p. 67
Jelly's Last Jam	p. 69
Louis Armstrong	p. 71
Armstrong's Classic Style	p. 72
Armstrong in Chicago and His Later Career	p. 73
Trombone Technique	p. 79
The Chicagoans and Bix Beiderbecke	p. 79
Questions and Topics for Discussion	p. 85
Additional Listening Downloads	p. 85
Key Terms	p. 85
1920s Jazz in New York and Europe	p. 86
Tin Pan Alley	p. 89
The Harlem Renaissance	p. 90
Harlem Stride Piano	p. 93
Eubie Blake	p. 94
James P. Johnson	p. 95
Fats Waller	p. 96
Art Tatum	p. 97
Paul Whiteman and George Gershwin	p. 101
Beginnings of the Big Bands	p. 102
Fletcher Henderson	p. 102
Duke Ellington's Early Career	p. 105
Bubber Miley and Tricky Sam Nanton	p. 106
Jazz in Europe	p. 111
Questions and Topics for Discussion	p. 117
Additional Listening Downloads	p. 117
Key Terms	p. 117
The Swing Era	p. 118
Overview: A Decade of Swing	p. 119
The Big Band in the Swing Era	p. 122
Instrumentation, Technique, and Arrangement	p. 122
Big-band Terms	p. 123
The Changing Role of the Rhythm Section	p. 127
Territory Bands	p. 128
The Original Blue Devils	p. 129
Kansas City	p. 130
Mary Lou Williams and the Clouds of Joy	p. 130
Count Basie	p. 133
Jazz Performance Terms	p. 137
Benny Goodman: King of Swing	p. 138
Race Relations in Early Jazz	p. 141
Ellington After the Cotton Club	p. 144
Building on the Band	p. 146
Changes for the Better	p. 146
The 1940s and Beyond	p. 149
Questions and Topics for Discussion	p. 153
Additional Listening Downloads	p. 153
Key Terms	p. 153
Swing-era Bands and Stylists	p. 154
Influential Big Bands of the Swing Era	p. 155
Cab Calloway	p. 156
Jimmie Lunceford	p. 156
Chick Webb	p. 157
The Casa Loma Orchestra	p. 158
McKinney's Cotton Pickers	p. 158
Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey	p. 158
Glenn Miller	p. 159
Artie Shaw	p. 159
World War II and the "All-girl" Bands	p. 160
Swing-era Stylists	p. 163
Benny Goodman	p. 164
Coleman Hawkins	p. 166
Lester Young	p. 170
Lester Young's Use of Formulas in "Shoe Shine Boy"	p. 170
Roy Eldridge	p. 174
Jack Teagarden	p. 175
Earl Hines	p. 175
Teddy Wilson	p. 176
Jimmy Blanton	p. 179
Jo Jones	p. 179
Gene Krupa	p. 179
Charlie Christian	p. 180
Benny Carter	p. 183
"All of Me": A Benny Carter Arrangement	p. 184
Billie Holiday	p. 184
Summary of the Features of Swing	p. 188
Questions and Topics for Discussion	p. 189
Additional Listening Downloads	p. 189
Key Terms	p. 189
The Bebop Era	p. 190
Revolution Versus Evolution	p. 192
Characteristics of the Bebop Style	p. 194
A Contrafact: Dizzy Gillespie's "Groovin' High"	p. 195
The Historical Origins of Bebop	p. 197
The Early Forties: Jamming at Minton's and Monroe's	p. 197
Big Bands in the Early 1940s	p. 198
The American Federation of Musicians Strike in 1942	p. 199
Bebop Moves to Fifty-second Street	p. 199
The Architects of Bebop	p. 200
Charlie Parker	p. 200
Charlie Parker's Use of Formulas	p. 207
Dizzy Gillespie	p. 209
Latin Jazz	p. 210
Bud Powell	p. 212
Thelonious Monk	p. 213
Monk and Metric Displacement	p. 215
Other Bebop Artists	p. 218
J. J. Johnson	p. 218
Fats Navarro	p. 218
Dexter Gordon	p. 218
Bop-style Big Bands of the Late 1940s	p. 219
Woody Herman	p. 219
Swing Bands in the Bebop Era	p. 220
Claude Thornhill	p. 220
Questions and Topics for Discussion	p. 221
Additional Listening Downloads	p. 221
Key Terms	p. 221
The 1950s and New Jazz Substyles	p. 222
Jazz and the New Substyles	p. 224
Technological Advances in the 1950s	p. 225
Cool Stylists	p. 226
Miles Davis and Birth of the Cool	p. 226
Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker	p. 229
The Modern Jazz Quartet	p. 230
Dave Brubeck	p. 232
Stan Getz	p. 234
Lennie Tristano	p. 235
Jazz on the West Coast	p. 236
Third-stream Music	p. 238
Piano Stylists	p. 239
Vocalists	p. 241
Ella Fitzgerald	p. 241
Other Jazz Singers of the 1950s: Sarah Vaughan and Joe Williams	p. 244
Cool Singing in the 1950s: The Big-band Legacy	p. 244
Vocalese: Eddie Jefferson and Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross	p. 245
Frank Sinatra	p. 245
Hard Bop and Funky/Soul Jazz	p. 246
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers	p. 246
Horace Silver	p. 249
Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet	p. 250
Max Roach and Modern Drumming	p. 251
Sonny Rollins	p. 253
Sonny Rollins and Improvisation	p. 254
Charles Mingus	p. 255
Miles Davis in the 1950s	p. 258
What Is Modal Jazz?	p. 261
Questions and Topics for Discussion	p. 265
Additional Listening Downloads	p. 265
Key Terms	p. 265
The 1960s Avant-garde	p. 266
Ornette Coleman and Free Jazz	p. 268
Ornette Coleman's Chamber and Orchestral Compositions	p. 271
John Coltrane	p. 274
Overview of Coltrane's Career	p. 274
Early Years	p. 275
Hard Bop with Miles Davis	p. 276
Coltrane's Classic Quartet	p. 278
Coltrane's Modal Compositions	p. 280
Coltrane and the Avant-garde	p. 283
Eric Dolphy	p. 284
Eric Dolphy and Booker Little	p. 285
Avant-garde Jazz and Black Activism	p. 286
Voices of Discontent	p. 286
Archie Shepp	p. 288
Albert Ayler	p. 289
Black Activism and the Avant-garde Today	p. 290
Cecil Taylor	p. 291
Taylor's Unit Structures	p. 292
Sun Ra	p. 293
Chicago: AACM, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and Anthony Braxton	p. 295
Black Artists Group and the World Saxophone Quartet	p. 297
Questions and Topics for Discussion	p. 299
Additional Listening Downloads	p. 299
Key Terms	p. 299
Mainstream Jazz in the 1960s	p. 300
Miles Davis in the 1960s	p. 301
Pianists	p. 304
Bill Evans	p. 305
Herbie Hancock	p. 311
Chick Corea	p. 313
Keith Jarrett and ECM Records	p. 314
ECM Records	p. 316
Funky/Soul Jazz	p. 316
Cannonball Adderley	p. 317
The Blues in Funky/Soul Jazz	p. 318
Jimmy Smith and Jazz Organists	p. 318
Guitarists	p. 319
The Hard Bop Legacy in the 1960s	p. 319
Blue Note Records	p. 320
Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard	p. 320
Wayne Shorter	p. 321
Joe Henderson	p. 321
Big Bands in the 1960s	p. 322
Other Blue Note Artists	p. 322
Questions and Topics for Discussion	p. 323
Additional Listening Downloads	p. 323
Key Terms	p. 323
Jazz-Rock, Jazz-Funk Fusion	p. 324
Synthesizers	p. 326
The Appeal of Rock and Funk	p. 328
The Fusion Music of Miles Davis	p. 330
Miles Davis in the Early 1970s	p. 332
Other Fusion Pioneers	p. 334
CTI Records	p. 335
Lifetime	p. 336
Mahavishnu Orchestra	p. 337
Herbie Hancock and Headhunters	p. 338
Herbie Hancock's Synthesizer Solo on "Chameleon"	p. 340
Chick Corea and Return to Forever	p. 343
Weather Report	p. 348
Pat Metheny	p. 351
Other Fusion Bands: The Brecker Brothers and Steps	p. 353
Questions and Topics for Discussion	p. 355
Additional Listening Downloads	p. 355
Key Terms	p. 355
Jazz Since the 1980s	p. 356
Classicism and the Jazz Repertory Movement	p. 358
Complete Jazz-recording Reissues	p. 358
Jazz Pedagogy	p. 360
Jazz Repertory	p. 360
Wynton Marsalis	p. 362
The Blakey Alumni	p. 366
Big Bands	p. 370
The Popular Connection	p. 373
Digital Technology	p. 373
Smooth Jazz	p. 373
Acid Jazz	p. 375
The Mass Market: Radio and the Internet	p. 376
Neo-swing	p. 376
The Avant-garde, Crossover, World Music, and Jazz to Come	p. 377
Jazz and Feminism	p. 377
Jazz Abroad	p. 379
Crossover, Postmodernism, and World Music	p. 380
Directions for Crossover Jazz	p. 387
The Future of Jazz	p. 389
Questions and Topics for Discussion	p. 391
Additional Listening Downloads	p. 391
Key Terms	p. 391
Jazz Basics	p. 392
Notes	p. 399
Glossary	p. 405
Selected Readings	p. 414
Selected Discography	p. 418
Selected Jazz DVDs and Videos	p. 420
Index	p. 424
Audio Primer CD Tracks
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