Jazz Cl (Deveaux)

by Deveaux,Scott

• ISBN13: 9780393068610
• ISBN10: 0393068617
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-26
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

The story of jazz as it has never been told before, from the inside out: a comprehensive, eloquent, scrupulously researched page-turner.In this vivid history of jazz, a respected critic and a leading scholar capture the excitement of America's unique music with intellectual bite, unprecedented insight, and the passion of unabashed fans. They explain what jazz is, where it came from, and who created it and why, all within the broader context of American life and culture. Emphasizing its African American roots, Jazz traces the history of the music over the last hundred years. From ragtime and blues to the international craze for swing, from the heated protests of the avantgarde to the radical diversity of today's artists, Jazz describes the travails and triumphs of musical innovators struggling for work, respect, and cultural acceptance set against the backdrop of American history, commerce, and politics. With vibrant photographs by legendary jazz chronicler Herman Leonard, Jazz is also an arresting visual history of a century of music.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xi
Musical Orientation: Elements and Instruments	p. 1
Ghana field recording, Akuapim performance
Jazz Form and Improvisation	p. 25
The Roots of Jazz	p. 43
Georgia Sea Island Singers, "The Buzzard Lope"
"Soon One Morning"
"Reckless Blues"
"The Stars and Stripes Forever"
"Down Home Rag"
New Orleans	p. 75
Original Dixieland Jazz Band, "Dixie Jass Band One-Step"
"Dead Man Blues"
"Doctor Jazz"
"Snake Rag"
Red Onion Jazz Babies / Sidney Bechet, "Cake Walking Babies (from Home)"
New York in the 1920s	p. 113
"Changes"
"Copenhagen"
"You've Got to Be Modernistic"
"Black and Tan Fantasy"
Louis Armstrong and the First Great Soloists	p. 145
"Hotter Than That"
"Weather Bird"
"Singin' the Blues"
Mound City Blue Blowers / Coleman Hawkins, "One Hour"
Swing Bands	p. 171
"Blue Lou"
"Dinah"
"Star Dust"
"Tain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)"
Count Basie and Duke Ellington	p. 201
"It's All Right, Baby"
"Walkin' and Swingin"
"One O'clock Jump"
"Mood Indigo"
"Conga Brava"
"Blood Count"
A World of Soloists	p. 241
"Body and Soul"
"Oh! Lady Be Good"
"I'm Coming, Virginia"
"A Sailboat in the Moonlight"
"Blue Sides"
Rhythm in Transition	p. 273
"Christopher Columbus"
"Over the Rainbow"
"Swing to Bop" ("Topsy")
Modern Jazz: Bebop	p. 295
"Ko Ko"
"Embraceable You"
"Now's the Time"
"Tempus Fugue-It"
"Long Tall Dexter"
The 1950s: Cool Jazz and Hard Bop	p. 337
"Moon Dreams"
"All the Things You Are"
"The Preacher"
"A Night in Tunisia"
"Autumn Nocturne"
"Twisted Blues"
Jazz Composition in the 1950s	p. 377
"Thelonious"
"Rhythm-a-ning"
"Boogie Stop Shuffle"
"King Porter Stomp"
"Concerto for Billy the Kid"
Modality: Miles Davis and John Coltrane	p. 411
"So What"
"Giant Steps"
"Acknowledgement"
"E.S.E"
The Avant-Garde	p. 445
"Lonely Woman"
"Bulbs"
"Part 3"
"Ghosts"
"El Matador"
Fusion I: R&B, Singers, and Latin Jazz	p. 485
"The Organ Grinders Swing"
"The Birth of the Blues"
"Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?"
"Manteca"
"Watermelon Man"
"Samba Dees Days"
Fusion II: Jazz, Rock, and Beyond	p. 529
Weather Report, "Teen Town"
"Long as You Know You're Living Yours"
"Chank"
"Tutu"
Historicism: Jazz on Jazz	p. 573
"Piece Three"
"Processional"
"Now's the Time"
Jazz Today	p. 603
"You've Got to Be Modernistic"
"Planet Rock"
Selected Musicians on Primary Jazz Instruments	p. 621
Glossary	p. 635
Collecting Jazz Recordings	p. 649
Jazz on Film	p. 657
End Notes	p. 665
Credits	p. 676
Index	p. 677
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