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Introduction: Jazz basics. The three fundamentals of Western music. Rhythm ; Melody ; Harmony -- Texture and timbre -- Dynamics and articulation -- Instruments of jazz -- Form and organization. Form in early jazz ; Song forms ; Rhythm changes ; Blues changes ; The blues scale -- Jazz performance terms -- Ways of listening to jazz -- Roots. African-American music in the nineteenth century. Sources of musical diversity ; The preservation of African traditions -- European music in the nineteenth century. Instrumentation, form, and harmony -- Early African-American music. The problem of transcribing African-American music ; Christianity, spirituals, the ring shout, and work songs ; Blue notes and syncopation -- Minstrelsy -- Ragtime. Scott Joplin ; Ragtime's relationship to jazz -- The blues. Bessie Smith ; Characteristics of early jazz singing -- Early jazz. The shift from ragtime to jazz -- New Orleans. Charles "Buddy" Bolden ; Sidney Bechet ; Jelly Roll Morton ; Creoles of color ; Jelly's last jam -- The evolution of the early jazz band -- The exodus from New Orleans -- The migration north -- The advent of jazz recording. The ODJB and the first jazz recording -- King Oliver and the Creole jazz band -- Louis Armstrong. Armstrong's classic style ; Armstrong in Chicago and his later career ; Trombone technique -- The Chicagoans and Bix Beiderbecke -- Jazz in New York -- Jazz in Europe -- The Harlem renaissance -- Harlem stride piano. Piano rolls ; Eubie Blake ; James P. Johnson ; Fats Waller ; Art Tatum -- Whiteman and Gershwin -- Beginnings of the big bands. Fletcher Henderson ; Duke Ellington's early career ; Bubbey Miley and Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton -- The swing era. Overview: a decade of swing -- The big band in the swing era. Instrumentation, technique, and arrangement ; Big-band terms ; The changing role of the rhythm section -- Territory bands. Kansas City ; Mary Lou Williams and the clouds of joy -- Count Basie. Jo Jones: modernizing the drums ; Saxophonist Lester Young -- Benny Goodman: king of swing. Race relations in early jazz ; Gene Krupa: drums with drive -- Ellington after the Cotton Club. Building on the band ; Changes for the better ; The 1940s and beyond ; Jimmy Blanton: bassist as soloist -- Influential big bands of the swing era. World War II and the "All-girl" bands -- Swing-era stylists. Coleman Hawkins: elevating the saxophone ; Roy Eldridge: from Armstrong to Gillespie ; Jack Teagarden: trombone styles ; Earl Hines: fluid and linear piano ; Teddy Wilson: elegant ensemble piano ; Charlie Christian: shift to electric guitar ; Benny Carter: composer and arranger ; Billie Holiday: tragic singer ; Ella Fitzgerald: sixty years of song -- Summary of the features of swing -- The bebop era. Revolution versus evolution -- Characteristics of the bebop style. A recomposition: Dizzy Gillespie's "Groovin' high" -- The historical origins of bebop. The early forties: jamming at Minton's and Monroe's ; The American Federation of Musicians strike in 1942 ; Big bands in the early 1940s ; Jazz moves to fifty-second street -- The architects of bebop. Charlie Parker ; Dizzy Gillespie ; Latin Jazz ; Bud Powell ; Thelonious Monk -- |
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The fifties and new jazz substyles. Jazz and the new substyles. Technological advances in the 1950s -- Cool stylists. Miles Davis and the Birth of the Cool ; The modern jazz quartet ; Dave Brubeck ; Stan Getz -- Jazz on the West Coast -- Third-stream music -- Piano stylists -- Vocalists. Joe Williams ; Vocalese: Eddie Jefferson and Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross ; Frank Sinatra -- Hard bop and funky/soul jazz. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers ; Horace Silver ; Charles Mingus ; Clifford Brown: Max Roach Quintet ; Sonny Rollins -- Miles Davis in the 1950s. What is modal jazz? -- The sixties. The 1960s avant-garde. Voices of discontent -- Avant-garde jazz and black activism. Archie Shepp ; Albert Ayler ; Black activism and the avant-garde today ; Ornette Coleman and free jazz ; Ornette Coleman's chamber and orchestral compositions -- John Coltrane. Overview of Coltrane's career ; Early years ; Hard bop with Miles Davis ; Coltrane's classic quartet ; Coltrane and the avant-garde -- Cecil Taylor -- Chicago: AACM, the art ensemble of Chicago, and Anthony Braxton -- Other avant-garde performers. Black artists group and the world saxophone quartet ; Sun Ra ; Eric Dolphy ; Eric Dolphy and Booker Little -- The 1960s mainstream -- Miles Davis in the sixties -- Pianists. Bill Evans ; Herbie Hancock ; Chick Corea ; Keith Jarrett and ECM Records ; ECM Records -- Funky/soul jazz. Cannonball Adderly ; The blues in funky/soul jazz ; Jimmy Smith and jazz organists ; Guitarists -- The hard bop legacy. Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard ; Wayne Shorter ; Joe Henderson -- Jazz-rock, jazz-funk fusion. Synthesizers -- The appeal of rock and funk -- The fusion music of Miles Davis. Miles Davis in the early 1970s -- Other fusion pioneers. Lifetime ; Mahavishnu orchestra ; Herbie Hancock and Headhunters ; Chick Corea and return to forever ; Weather report ; Pat Metheny -- Jazz since the 1980s. Classicism and the jazz repertory movement. Complete jazz-recording reissues ; Live performance ; Wynton Marsalis ; The Blakey alumni and the hard bop renaissance ; Big bands -- The popular connection. Digital technology ; Smooth jazz ; Acid jazz ; The mass market: radio and the internet ; Neo-swing -- The avant-garde, crossover, world music, and jazz to come. Jazz and feminism ; Jazz abroad ; Crossover, postmodernism, and world music ; Directions for crossover jazz -- The future of jazz -- Glossary. |
| Abstract |
A complete jazz chronology, this text delivers a thorough and engaging introduction to jazz and American culture. Designed for nonmajors, this brief text explores the development of jazz from its nineteenth-century roots in ragtime and blues through swing and bebop to fusion and contemporary jazz styles. Unique in its up-to-date coverage, one-third of this text is devoted to performers of the 1960s through present-day performers. The text's flexible organization and clear, interesting presentation are designed to appeal to learners with little or no music background. Accessible, informative Listening Guides provide a rich sociocultural context for each selection, giving both newcomers and aficionados a true feel for the vibrant, ever-changing sound of jazz. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-294), discography (pages 295-298), and index. |
| LCCN | 2004106597 |
| ISBN | 0534638104 |
