Jazz / Scott DeVeaux, University of Virginia, Gary Giddins, The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeVeaux, Scott Knowles, author.

Giddins, Gary, author.

Contributor:

Joseph B. Glossberg Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz--History and criticism.

Jazz.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xix, 475 pages, 66 variously numbered pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm

regular print

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2015]

Contents:

I. Musical orientation. 1. Musical elements and instruments ; 2. Jazz form and improvisation

II. Early jazz (1900-1930). 3. The roots of jazz ; 4. New Orleans ; 5. New York in the 1920s ; 6. Louis Armstrong and the first great soloists

III. The swing era. 7. Swing bands ; 8. Count Basie and Duke Ellington ; 9. A world of soloists ; 10. Rhythm in transition

IV. Modern jazz. 11. Bebop ; 12. The 1950s : cool jazz and hard bop ; 13. Jazz composition in the 1950s ; 14. Modality : Miles Davis and John Coltrane

V. The avant-garde, fusion, historicism, and now. 15. The avant-garde ; 16. Fusion I : R&B, singers, and Latin jazz ; 17. Fusion II : jazz, rock, and beyond ; 18. Historicism : jazz on jazz ; 19. Jazz today.

Notes:

Includes online registration code and listening guide.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Joseph B. Glossberg Fund.

ISBN:

9780393937060

0393937062

OCLC:

892304847