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Jazz : essential listening / Scott DeVeaux, Gary Giddins.

By: Contributor(s): Analytics: Show analyticsPublication details: New York : W. W. Norton, c2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: xx, 404, A69 p. : ill. ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 9780393935639 (pbk.)
  • 0393935639 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 781.65 22
LOC classification:
  • ML3508 .D473 2011
Contents:
Musical orientation. Musical elements and instruments ; Jazz form and improvisation -- Early jazz (1900 - 1930). 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 David and John Coltrane -- The avant-garde, fusion, historicism, and 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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Includes bibliographical references, discography, filmography and index.

Musical orientation. Musical elements and instruments ; Jazz form and improvisation -- Early jazz (1900 - 1930). 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 David and John Coltrane -- The avant-garde, fusion, historicism, and 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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