Jazz : the basics / Christopher Meeder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meeder, Christopher.

Series:

The Basics

The Basics ; v.10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz--History and criticism.

Jazz.

Jazz musicians--United States.

Jazz musicians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Routledge, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jazz: The Basics gives a brief introduction to a century of jazz, ideal for students and interested listeners who want to learn more about this important musical style. The heart of the book traces jazz's growth from its folk origins through early recordings and New Orleans stars; the big-band and swing era; bebop; cool jazz and third stream; avant-garde; jazz-rock; and the neo-conservative movement of the 1980s and 1990s. Key figures from each era including: Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and Wynton Marsalis are highlighted along with classic works. The book conc

Contents:

JAZZ THE BASICS; Copyright; CONTENTS; Introduction and Acknowledgments; 1 Fundamentals; Improvisation; Instrumentation and Its Role within Form; Common Jazz Wind Instruments; Rhythm and Melody; Rhythm; Form; Example: Jones-Smith Incorporated, "Oh, Lady, Be Good"; "Swing"; Jazz in Society; Race; Listening to Jazz; 2 Pre-Jazz; Africa; Europe; African American Music; Minstrelsy; Ragtime; Blues; Bessie Smith, "Back Water Blues"; New Orleans; James Reese Europe; Lieut. Jim Europe's 369th Infantry ("Hell Fighters") Band, "Memphis Blues"; Buddy Bolden and Origin Mythology; 3 Early Jazz Recordings

The Original Dixieland Jazz BandThe Original Dixieland Jazz Band, "Livery Stable Blues"; "Jelly Roll" Morton (1890-1941); Joe "King" Oliver (1885-1938); Other Early Recordings; King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, "Chimes Blues"; 4 Louis Armstrong; Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra, "Sugar Foot Stomp"; Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven, "West End Blues"; 5 The 1920s; The Chicagoans and Bix Beiderbecke; Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra, "Singin' the Blues"; Stride Piano; Making A Lady Out of Jazz; 6 The Swing Era, Part I: Big Bands; Instrumentation; Winds; Rhythm; Fletcher Henderson

Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra, "Hotter than 'Ell"Duke Ellington; Count Basie; Benny Goodman; Other Bands; 7 The Swing Era, Part II: Small Groups and Soloists; Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young; Colemand Hawkins, "Body and Soul"; Roy Eldridge; Art Tatum; Django Reinhardt; Billie Holiday; Billie Holiday with Eddie Heywood and His Orchestra, "Solitude"; Ella Fitzgerald; 8 Bebop and the Moldy Figs; Elements of Bebop Style; Tritone Substitution; Dizzy Gillespie; "Salt Peanuts," Dizzy Gillespie and His All Star Quintet; Bud Powell; Other Bebop Musicians; 9 Charlie Parker; Early Career

New York and Dizzy Gillespie"Ko-Ko," Charlie Parker's Re-Boppers; Los Angeles and Back; Norman Granz, Jazz at the Philharmonic, and Verve Records; 10 Thelonious Monk; "Epistrophy," Thelonious Monk; 11 The 1950s: The Beginning of Jazz; Hard Bop and Soul Jazz; Max Roach and Clifford Brown; Sonny Rollins; Art Blakey and Horace Silver; Cool Jazz and the West Coast Scene; Horace Silver and the Jazz Messingers, "Doodlin"; The Tristano School; Dave Brubeck; The Dave Brubeck Quartet, "Take Five"; Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker; Third Stream; 12 Miles Davis; Three Biographical Treatments of Miles Davis

Bebop with ParkerBirth of the Cool; The Prestige Albums; The First Great Quintet; Gil Evans; Kind of Blue; The Second Great Quintet; Early Electricity; Fusion; Warner Brothers and Proto-Smooth Jazz; 13 Avant-Garde Jazz of the 1950s and Early 1960s; Charles Mingus; "Original Fairbus Fables," Charles Mingus; Sun Ra; Cecil Taylor; "Conqistador," Cecil Taylor Unit; Ornette Coleman; "Cronology," Ornette Coleman Quartet; 14 John Coltrane; The Early Years; With Miles Davis; The Classic Quartet; The Avant-Garde; 15 The 1960s, Part I: Inside; Big Bands and Arrangers of the 1960s; Bossa Nova

The Organ Trio

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references discography and index.

ISBN:

1-135-88712-8

1-281-10137-0

9786611101374

0-203-93145-9

9780203931455

OCLC:

247133579