The guide to classic recorded jazzIn a single source, this book serves as a field guide to available recordings as well as a highly accessible vision of the development and sound of the music, one that will give the reader some sense of what musicians think about when they play, what kinds of demands are placed on them, and what kinds of solutions they have to come up with. |
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Contents
Many Voices | 3 |
The Red Hot Peppers | 9 |
The Soloist and the Arranger | 15 |
Copyright | |
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Common terms and phrases
accents album alto altoist Art Blakey ballad band's bass bassist bebop Ben Webster Benny big band Billy Bird Blue Note Bud Powell Charlie Parker chords chorus clarinet classic Coleman Hawkins Coltrane's Columbia ck Count Basie Davis's Dizzy Gillespie Dolphy Dorham drummer drums duet Duke Ellington ensemble especially Fletcher Henderson harmonic hear horn improvisation jazz Jimmy John Coltrane Johnny Johnson Kenny Lester Young listen Louis Armstrong Love lyrical Max Roach medium-tempo melody Miles Davis Monk's mood musicians Navarro orchestra original Orleans Paul Chambers performances Philly Joe Jones phrases pianist piano players playing quartet quintet RcA/Bluebird recorded rhythm section rhythmic riffs Rollins's Roy Eldridge saxophone session sextet sideman sides small-group solo soloists Sonny Rollins sound standards Stitt straight-ahead studio style swing takes tempo tenor saxophonist tenorist Thelonious Monk title track trio trombone trombonist trumpet up-tempo Verve vocal Volume 1 Blue Webster
Bibliographic information
| Title | The guide to classic recorded jazz |
| Author | Tom Piazza |
| Publisher | University of Iowa Press, 1995 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Oct 24, 2009 |
| Length | 391 pages |
| Subjects | › › Discography Jazz Jazz/ Discography Music / Discography & Buyer's Guides Music / Genres & Styles / Jazz Music / Reference Reference / Bibliographies & Indexes Reviews Sound recordings Sound recordings/ Reviews |
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