Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical DevelopmentEarly Jazz is one of the seminal books on American jazz, ranging from the beginnings of jazz as a distinct musical style at the turn of the century to its first great flowering in the 1930s. Schuller explores the music of the great jazz soloists of the twenties--Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, and others--and the big bands and arrangers--Fletcher Henderson, Bennie Moten, and especially Duke Ellington--placing their music in the context of the other musical cultures of the twentieth century and offering analyses of many great jazz recordings. Early Jazz provides a musical tour of the early American jazz world. A classic study, it is both a splendid introduction for students and an insightful guide for scholars, musicians, and jazz aficionados. |
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Page 54
... popular music . TIMBRE Timbre is generally the least discussed musical element in jazz , and yet it is probably the characteristic more than any other that identifies something as jazz or non - jazz for the uninitiated . This fact ...
... popular music . TIMBRE Timbre is generally the least discussed musical element in jazz , and yet it is probably the characteristic more than any other that identifies something as jazz or non - jazz for the uninitiated . This fact ...
Page 179
... popular dancing away from gentility , ballroom decorum and elegance of motion to a franker , jerkier , faster and snappier kind of dance ; and in cabarets and on the vaudeville circuits . . . a persistent vogue for barnyard hokum ...
... popular dancing away from gentility , ballroom decorum and elegance of motion to a franker , jerkier , faster and snappier kind of dance ; and in cabarets and on the vaudeville circuits . . . a persistent vogue for barnyard hokum ...
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... popular styles developing at that time , rang- ing from pure ragtime , through its various adulterated and sweetened sub - forms , all the way to semi- " classical , " European - based operetta music . In those years , jazz was but one ...
... popular styles developing at that time , rang- ing from pure ragtime , through its various adulterated and sweetened sub - forms , all the way to semi- " classical , " European - based operetta music . In those years , jazz was but one ...
Contents
The Origins | 3 |
The Beginnings | 63 |
The First Great Soloist | 89 |
Copyright | |
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