Jazz Styles: History & AnalysisA text for courses in jazz appreciation, focusing on American instrumental jazz and emphasizing descriptions of jazz styles rather than a decade-by-decade chronicle. Contains chapter summaries, bandw photos, a chronology, guides to jazz albums and videos, and separate appendices on elements of music for musicians and nonmusicians. In this sixth edition chapters begin on the same page numbers as the fifth. Music cassettes/CD-ROMs are available. For high school through college students with no previous knowledge of music. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR. |
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
APPRECIATING JAZZ IMPROVISATION | 10 |
Premodern Jazz | 29 |
Copyright | |
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A-section accompaniment African album alto approach bandleader bassist beat Benny big band Bill Evans Blue Note called chapter Charlie Parker Chick Corea chord changes chord progressions Chorus clarinet Coltrane's Columbia combo composer compositions Count Basie dance Demo CD Track Dizzy Gillespie drummer Duke Ellington early jazz eighth notes ensemble figures Four Measures free jazz guitar guitarist hard bop harmonies Herbie Hancock high-hat influenced instruments Jarrett Jazz Classics CD jazz history Jazz Improvisation jazz musicians jazz styles Jimmy John Coltrane Jones Konitz Lester Young lines Listen Louis Armstrong melody Miles Davis Mingus mode modern jazz original Orleans Ornette Coleman patterns performance phrases pianist piece pitch players playing popular Quartet ragtime recordings rhythm section rhythmic ride rhythms saxophone SCCJ singers soloist sound Stan swing feeling syncopated techniques tempo tenor saxophonists timekeeping tone quality trombone trombonists trumpet tunes Tyner vibrato voice Wayne Shorter Weather Report Zawinul