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The jazz book : from ragtime to the 21st century / Joachim-Ernst Berendt and Günther Huesmann ; translated by H. and B. Bredigkeit ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berendt, Joachim-Ernst, 1922-2000.
- Standardized Title:
- Grosse Jazzbuch. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jazz--History and criticism.
- Jazz.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (770 p.)
- Edition:
- 7th ed., rev. and expanded.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Ill. : Lawrence Hill Books, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Considered the most encyclopedic interpretive history of jazz available in one volume for more than 50 years, this reference 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 1990's and beyond, samplers, the tuba, the harmonica, non-Western instruments, postmodernist and repertory big bands, how the avant-garde has ex
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes discography (p. 669-734) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-55652-823-X
- 1-61374-602-4
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