The jazz book : from ragtime to the 21st century / Joachim-Ernst Berendt and Günther Huesmann ; translated by H. and B. Bredigkeit ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berendt, Joachim-Ernst, 1922-2000.

Contributor:

Huesmann, Günther, 1957-

Standardized Title:

Grosse Jazzbuch. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Jazz--History and criticism.

Jazz.

Physical Description:

xiv, 754 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Seventh edition, revised and expanded.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : Lawrence Hill Books, [2009]

Summary:

For fifty years The Jazz Book has been the most encyclopedic interpretive history of jazz available in one volume. In this new seventh edition, each chapter has been completely revised and expanded to incorporate the dominant styles and musicians since the book's last publication in 1992, as well as the fruits of current research about earlier periods in the history of jazz. In addition, new chapters have been added on John Zorn, jazz in the 1990s and beyond, samplers, the tuba, the harmonica, non-Western instruments, postmodernist and repertory big bands, how the avant-garde has explored tradition, and many other subjects. With a widespread resurgence of interest in jazz, The Jazz Book will continue well into the 21st century to fill the need for information about an art form widely regarded as America's greatest contribution to the world's musical culture.

Contents:

The styles of jazz

The musicians of jazz

The elements of jazz

The instruments of jazz

The vocalists of jazz

The big bands of jazz

The small bands of jazz

Toward a definition of jazz.

Notes:

Includes index.

Discography: pages 669-734.

ISBN:

9781556528231

155652823X

9781556528200

1556528205

OCLC:

276815631