The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Jazz

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Penguin, Aug 6, 2002 - Music - 304 pages
  • A concise history of jazz
  • The noteworthy composers and musicians, from Jelly Roll Morton and Thelonious Monk to Miles Davis and Charles Mingus
  • Major performers from Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald to Nat King Cole and Duke Ellington
  • Classic songs and compositions
  • The most influential recordings of all time
  • A complete guide to jazz terminology and lingo
  • Valuable resources for the Curious Listener
 

Selected pages

Contents

The Story of Jazz
7
Varieties of Jazz
49
Jazz Deconstructed
77
The Musicians
83
The Music
163
Jazz on CD
201
The Language of Jazz
233
Resources for Curious Listeners
241
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Loren Schoenberg
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Common terms and phrases

albums American artistic bandleader bass bassist became Bechet Benny Carter Benny Goodman big band Billie Holiday blues career Catlett Charles Mingus Charlie Christian Charlie Parker chord clarinet clarinetist classic recordings Coleman Hawkins Coltrane's composer composition contemporary Count Basie created culture decade Dizzy Gillespie Dolphy drum drummer Duke Ellington early Eldridge ensemble Evans featured genre Getz guitarist hand hear idiom improvisation influence innovative inspired instrument Jazz Band Jazz musicians Jazz piano Jazz world Jazz's Jelly Roll Morton Jimmy John Coltrane Johnson Kenny Konitz late 50s Lester Young listen Louis Armstrong major Marsalis Max Roach melody Miles Davis notes Orchestra original Ornette Coleman performance pianist piece players playing popular quartet quintet rhythm section rhythmic saxophone sessions Shaw small groups soloists solos Sonny Rollins sound style swing Tatum Teddy Wilson tempo tenor saxophonist Thelonious Monk trio Tristano trombonist trumpeter tune virtuosity vocalist voice Wayne Shorter

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About the author (2002)

Loren Schoenberg has been a featured tenor saxophone soloist with the big bands of Benny Carter, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Health, and Buck Clayton. A faculty member at the Essentially Ellington Band Director's Academy in Snowmass, Colorado, he was recently named the program director of Jazz Aspen Snowmass Jazz Colony summer program. He was advisor to Ken Burns's Jazz Project.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Jazz
Npr Curious Listener's Guide
AuthorLoren Schoenberg
ContributorWynton Marsalis
PublisherPenguin, 2002
ISBN039952794X, 9780399527944
Length304 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Music / Genres & Styles / Jazz
Music / History & Criticism
Music / Reference
  
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