| Contents |
Listening to jazz. An overview ; Historical frame of reference ; Understanding jazz ; What to listen for in jazz ; Listening guidelines -- Jazz heritages. African and European influences ; Interpretation and content ; African influences ; European influences ; African Americans in the early colonies ; Creole music ; Field hollers (cries) ; Work songs ; Minstrels ; Religious music ; Gospel ; Mahalia Jackson and the African American church ; Marching bands -- The blues. The origin ; Blue notes ; Field and prison hollers ; Blues lyrics ; Country and urban blues ; Singing the blues ; Contemporary blues -- Piano styles: ragtime to boogie-woogie. The birth of ragtime ; Ragtime and Dixieland merge ; Ragtime lives on ; Stride piano ; Boogie-woogie -- Early New Orleans and Chicago style jazz. Early New Orleans style ; Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) ; Chicago style (the 1920s) ; Later developments -- Swing. Beginnings of the swing era ; Jazz arrangements ; New York ; Kansas City ; Southwest bands: early Basie ; Swing becomes accepted ; The swing bands ; Big-band soloists ; Swing combos ; The demise of swing ; Big-band legacy ; Swing singers -- Duke Ellington. Washington to New York ; The Cotton Club ; Touring ; The swing period ; Billy Strayhorn ; New additions and longer compositions ; Johnny Hodges ; A period of transition ; Late Ellington ; Individual and group expression ; Innovations ; Repertoire -- Bop. The shift to bop ; The developing mainstream and the jazz canon ; Bop arranging ; Musical expansion ; The bop rhythm section ; The performers ; Bop and progressive big bands -- Cool/third stream. The sounds of cool ; Cool bands ; The performers ; West coast jazz ; Third stream ; Jazz in classical composition -- Miles Davis. Bop ; Cool ; Small groups ; Modal ; Jazz/rock fusion ; Jazz pop ; Legacy -- Hard bop, funky, gospel jazz. The music ; Gospel jazz ; The performers ; Art Blakey and the developing mainstream -- Free form, avant-garde. Ornette Coleman ; Cecil Taylor ; John Coltrane ; Chicago style of free jazz ; Contemporary avant-garde ; The free jazz controversy -- Jazz/rock fusion. Early jazz rock ; Fusion ; Jazz: a new popularity ; Jazz/pop ; Jazz/pop blend ; Jazz in rock -- Contemporary trends: a maturing art form. The neoclassical school ; The jazz canon ; The young lions ; Wynton Marsalis ; The trumpet legacy ; The saxophone legacy ; The piano legacy ; The vocal legacy ; Jazz/pop distinctions ; Vocal jazz groups -- Latin jazz. 1890s-1910, early New Orleans ; 1910s-1920s, the tango craze ; 1930s, the rumba craze ; Clave ; 1940s, swing to Cubop ; 1950s, the mambo and Cubop ; 1960s, the Brazilian wave ; 1970s, Latin jazz fusion ; Contemporary trends. |
| Abstract |
Accompanying CD-ROM contains demonstration recordings to illustrate jazz styles, instrument film clips, flashcards to review key terms, timelines, and matching quizzes. |
| Local note | JOYNER MUSIC LIBRARY BOOK ACCOMPANIED BY SOFTWARE LOCATED AT CALL NUMBER: MusicLib SW-67. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages B 1-5) and index. |
| Technical details | System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: Windows 98SE/2000/ME/XP/NT 4.0 SP 6; Macintosh Power PC or higher processor, MAC OS 9.2 or OS X. |
| LCCN | 2004042571 |
| ISBN | 0072945435 |
| ISBN | 9780072945430 |
