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Jazz Styles : History and Analysis
by Mark C. GridleyEdition:
6th
ISBN13:
9780132609852
ISBN10:
0132609851
Format:
Paperback
Pub. Date:
7/1/1996
Publisher(s):
Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
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Summary
'Teaching students how to listen and what to listen for in jazz... a highly effective textbook for students who have had little or no exposure to jazz... a broad, penetrating view of jazz history... luminously clear.' - Down Beat
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 | p. v |
| Acknowledgements | p. xii |
| A Small Basic CD Collection | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 2 |
| Basics of Jazz | |
| What is Jazz? | p. 4 |
| Appreciating Jazz Improvisation | p. 10 |
| Premodern Jazz | |
| Origins of Jazz | p. 28 |
| Early Jazz: Combo Jazz Prior to the Middle 1930s | p. 48 |
| Swing: The Early 1930s to the Late 1940s | p. 80 |
| Duke Ellington | p. 104 |
| The Count Basie Bands | p. 122 |
| Modern Jazz: The Early 1940s to the Early 1960s | |
| Bop: The Early 1940s to the Middle 1950s | p. 133 |
| Cool Jazz | p. 166 |
| Hard Bop | p. 187 |
| Miles Davis, His Groups & Sidemen | p. 214 |
| John Coltrane | p. 240 |
| Modern Jazz: The Early 1960s to the Early 1990s | |
| 1960s and 1970s Avant-Garde & "Free" Jazz | p. 256 |
| Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, & Keith Jarret | p. 282 |
| Jazz-Rock Fusion | p. 303 |
| 1980-2005 | p. 328 |
| Appendices | |
| Brief Outline of Jazz Styles | p. 355 |
| Elements of Music | p. 356 |
| Strategies for Album Buying | p. 380 |
| A Small Basic Collection of Jazz Videos | p. 387 |
| Glossary | p. 388 |
| Supplementary Reading | p. 392 |
| Sources for Solo Transcriptions | p. 397 |
| For Musicians | p. 399 |
| Index | p. 410 |
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