Jazz Styles

by Gridley, Mark C.

• ISBN13: 9780130212276
• ISBN10: 013021227X
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

For undergraduate courses in Jazz History, Evolution of Jazz, Jazz and Rock, American Music, Popular Music, African-American Music, Black Music in African-American Music, Jazz in America, Jazz Survey, Understanding Jazz, Jazz Styles, Jazz Appreciation, and Twentieth Century Music. Focusing on what Jazz is, how it is made, and how to listen to it, this best-selling introduction to jazz skillfully mixes written text with audio recordings to help students learn how to improve their ear for music and gain a deeper appreciation of the many layers of sound found in each recording. Highlighting the musical characteristics of each style and contrasting each successive era in a point-by-point manner, it details the basic musical principles, important styles, musical trends, history, innovations, and instruments of jazz, ideal for both non-musicians and music majors alike, it is easy-to-read, tightly organized, and filled with tips to help increase listening enjoyment as it guides students through the full spectrum of jazz historyfrom Africa to New Ageexamining the major artists and providing an abundance of examples throughout the text and in the accompanying cassettes and CD's.

Author Biography

Mark C. Gridley is an active jazz musician and educator. He has done field research in Africa, the Caribbean, and all the jazz centers of America. His books have been translated into five foreign languages. His articles appear in the Grove Dictionaries of Music, Encyclopaedia Britannica, The Musical Quarterly, The Black Perspective in Music, The Instrumentalist, and Jazz Educators Journal.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Introduction	2	(2)
part I BASICS OF JAZZ
What is Jazz?	4	(7)
Appreciating Jazz Improvisation	11	(21)
part II PREMODERN JAZZ
Origins of Jazz	32	(21)
Early Jazz: Combo Jazz Prior To The Middle 1930s	53	(37)
Swing: The Early 1930s To The Late 1940s	90	(24)
Duke Ellington	114	(20)
The Count Basie Bands	134	(13)
part III MODERN JAZZ: THE EARLY 1940s TO THE EARLY 1960s
Bop	147	(37)
Cool Jazz	184	(21)
Lennie Tristano and Lee Konitz	187	(2)
Birth of the Cool	189	(1)
West Coast Style of the 1950s	190	(15)
Hard Bop	205	(24)
Miles Davis, His Groups & Sidemen	229	(33)
John Coltrane	262	(20)
part IV MODERN JAZZ: THE EARLY 1960s TO THE EARLY 1990s
1960s And 1970s Avant-Garde & ``Free'' Jazz	282	(29)
Ornette Coleman	284	(3)
Don Cherry	287	(1)
Cecil Taylor	288	(3)
Albert Ayler	291	(1)
Charles Mingus	292	(3)
Eric Dolphy	295	(4)
Sun Ra	299	(4)
The Art Ensemble of Chicago	303	(2)
Anthony Braxton	305	(1)
The World Saxophone Quartet	305	(6)
Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, & Keith Jarrett	311	(23)
Bill Evans	312	(6)
Herbie Hancock	318	(4)
Chick Corea	322	(4)
Keith Jarrett	326	(8)
Jazz-Rock Fusion	334	(114)
Miles Davis	341	(4)
John McLaughlin	345	(3)
Larry Coryell/Joe Zawinul	348	(4)
Weather Report	352	(2)
Jaco Pastorius	354	(2)
Pat Metheny	356	(1)
New Age/Smooth Jazz	357	(2)
Acid Jazz	359	(13)
APPENDIX
Chronology of Jazz Styles Chart	372	(2)
Elements of Music	374	(34)
Rhythm:
Beat	374	(1)
Tempo	374	(1)
Meter	375	(1)
Rhythm	375	(1)
syncopation	376	(3)
swing eighths	379	(1)
polyrhythm	380	(1)
Scales, Keys, Tonality, and Modality	381	(6)
Blue Notes	387	(1)
Chords and Chord Progressions	388	(3)
Chord Voicing	391	(1)
The Blues	392	(1)
The Thirty-Two-Bar A-A-B-A Tune	393	(1)
Listening for Twelve-Bar Blues/Thirty-Two-Bar Forms	394	(3)
Detecting Other Forms	397	(2)
Modal Forms	399	(2)
The Effects of Form on Improvisation	401	(1)
Phrasing in Relation to Form	402	(1)
Tone Color	403	(5)
Guide To Album Buying	408	(8)
Guide To Jazz Videos	416	(1)
Glossary	417	(5)
Supplementary Reading	422	(6)
Sources For Notated Jazz Solos	428	(3)
For Musicians	431	(17)
Chords and Chord Progressions	431	(1)
Twelve-Bar Blues Progressions	432	(1)
Turnarounds	432	(1)
Voicing	433	(1)
Modes	434	(6)
Comping	440	(1)
Walking Bass Lines	441	(1)
Rock Bass Lines	442	(2)
Latin American Bass Line	444	(1)
Syncopations	444	(1)
Comping Figures for ``Rhythm Changes''	445	(1)
Ride Rhythms	446	(1)
Jazz-Rock/Jazz-Funk Drumming	447	(1)
Index	448