Jazz: Essential listening

Now with streaming audio for every track, this text provides everything students need for listening to, understanding, and loving jazz. Written by two master storytellers, the book combines a dynamic listening experience with vivid narrative history, must-hear masterworks, and a superior media package to reveal the excitement of America’s quintessential music.

Jazz: Essential listening

DeVeaux, Scott

W.W. Norton & Company

2018

Abstract

Now with streaming audio for every track, this text provides everything students need for listening to, understanding, and loving jazz. Written by two master storytellers, the book combines a dynamic listening experience with vivid narrative history, must-hear masterworks, and a superior media package to reveal the excitement of America’s quintessential music.

Introductory book musical orientation: Musical elements and instruments; Jazz form and improvisation. Early jazz (1900 - 190): The roots of Jazz; new orleans; New York in the 1920S; Louis Armstrong and the first great soloists. The swing era: Swing bands; count basie and duke ellington; a world of soloists; rhythm in transition. Modern Jazz: Bebop; The 1950s: Cool Jazz and hard bop; Jazz composition in the 1950s; modality: Miles Davis and John Coltrance. The avant - garde, fusion, historicismand now: The avant - garde; fusion I: R & B, singers, and Latin Jazz; fusion II: Jazz, Rock, and Beyond; historicism: Jazz on Jazz; Jazz today.

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DeVeaux, Scott. Jazz: Essential listening. W.W. Norton & Company, 2018.

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