Essential jazz : the first 100 years / Henry Martin, Keith Waters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Henry, 1950- author.

Waters, Keith, 1958- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz--History and criticism.

Jazz.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 311 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm + 2 audio discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

Place of Publication:

Australia ; United States : Thomson/Schirmer, [2005]

Summary:

A complete jazz chronology, this text delivers a thorough and engaging introduction to jazz and American culture. Designed for nonmajors, this brief text explores the development of jazz from its nineteenth-century roots in ragtime and blues through swing and bebop to fusion and contemporary jazz styles. Unique in its up-to-date coverage, one-third of this text is devoted to performers of the 1960s through present-day performers. The text's flexible organization and clear, interesting presentation are designed to appeal to learners with little or no music background. Accessible, informative Listening Guides provide a rich sociocultural context for each selection, giving both newcomers and aficionados a true feel for the vibrant, ever-changing sound of jazz.

Contents:

Introduction: Jazz basics

Roots

Early jazz

The swing era

The bebop era

The fifties and new jazz substyles

The sixties

Jazz-rock, jazz-funk fusion

Jazz since the 1980s.

Introduction: Jazz basics. The three fundamentals of Western music. Rhythm ; Melody ; Harmony

Texture and timbre

Dynamics and articulation

Instruments of jazz

Form and organization. Form in early jazz ; Song forms ; Rhythm changes ; Blues changes ; The blues scale

Jazz performance terms

Ways of listening to jazz

Roots. African-American music in the nineteenth century. Sources of musical diversity ; The preservation of African traditions

European music in the nineteenth century. Instrumentation, form, and harmony

Early African-American music. The problem of transcribing African-American music ; Christianity, spirituals, the ring shout, and work songs ; Blue notes and syncopation

Minstrelsy

Ragtime. Scott Joplin ; Ragtime's relationship to jazz

The blues. Bessie Smith ; Characteristics of early jazz singing

Early jazz. The shift from ragtime to jazz

New Orleans. Charles "Buddy" Bolden ; Sidney Bechet ; Jelly Roll Morton ; Creoles of color ; Jelly's last jam

The evolution of the early jazz band

The exodus from New Orleans

The migration north

The advent of jazz recording. The ODJB and the first jazz recording

King Oliver and the Creole jazz band

Louis Armstrong. Armstrong's classic style ; Armstrong in Chicago and his later career ; Trombone technique

The Chicagoans and Bix Beiderbecke

Jazz in New York

Jazz in Europe

The Harlem renaissance

Harlem stride piano. Piano rolls ; Eubie Blake ; James P. Johnson ; Fats Waller ; Art Tatum

Whiteman and Gershwin

Beginnings of the big bands. Fletcher Henderson ; Duke Ellington's early career ; Bubbey Miley and Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton

The swing era. Overview: a decade of swing

The big band in the swing era. Instrumentation, technique, and arrangement ; Big-band terms ; The changing role of the rhythm section

Territory bands. Kansas City ; Mary Lou Williams and the clouds of joy

Count Basie. Jo Jones: modernizing the drums ; Saxophonist Lester Young

Benny Goodman: king of swing. Race relations in early jazz ; Gene Krupa: drums with drive

Ellington after the Cotton Club. Building on the band ; Changes for the better ; The 1940s and beyond ; Jimmy Blanton: bassist as soloist

Influential big bands of the swing era. World War II and the "All-girl" bands

Swing-era stylists. Coleman Hawkins: elevating the saxophone ; Roy Eldridge: from Armstrong to Gillespie ; Jack Teagarden: trombone styles ; Earl Hines: fluid and linear piano ; Teddy Wilson: elegant ensemble piano ; Charlie Christian: shift to electric guitar ; Benny Carter: composer and arranger ; Billie Holiday: tragic singer ; Ella Fitzgerald: sixty years of song

Summary of the features of swing

The bebop era. Revolution versus evolution

Characteristics of the bebop style. A recomposition: Dizzy Gillespie's "Groovin' high"

The historical origins of bebop. The early forties: jamming at Minton's and Monroe's ; The American Federation of Musicians strike in 1942 ; Big bands in the early 1940s ; Jazz moves to fifty-second street

The architects of bebop. Charlie Parker ; Dizzy Gillespie ; Latin Jazz ; Bud Powell ; Thelonious Monk

The fifties and new jazz substyles. Jazz and the new substyles. Technological advances in the 1950s

Cool stylists. Miles Davis and the Birth of the Cool ; The modern jazz quartet ; Dave Brubeck ; Stan Getz

Jazz on the West Coast

Third-stream music

Piano stylists

Vocalists. Joe Williams ; Vocalese: Eddie Jefferson and Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross ; Frank Sinatra

Hard bop and funky/soul jazz. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers ; Horace Silver ; Charles Mingus ; Clifford Brown: Max Roach Quintet ; Sonny Rollins

Miles Davis in the 1950s. What is modal jazz?

The sixties. The 1960s avant-garde. Voices of discontent

Avant-garde jazz and black activism. Archie Shepp ; Albert Ayler ; Black activism and the avant-garde today ; Ornette Coleman and free jazz ; Ornette Coleman's chamber and orchestral compositions

John Coltrane. Overview of Coltrane's career ; Early years ; Hard bop with Miles Davis ; Coltrane's classic quartet ; Coltrane and the avant-garde

Cecil Taylor

Chicago: AACM, the art ensemble of Chicago, and Anthony Braxton

Other avant-garde performers. Black artists group and the world saxophone quartet ; Sun Ra ; Eric Dolphy ; Eric Dolphy and Booker Little

The 1960s mainstream

Miles Davis in the sixties

Pianists. Bill Evans ; Herbie Hancock ; Chick Corea ; Keith Jarrett and ECM Records ; ECM Records

Funky/soul jazz. Cannonball Adderly ; The blues in funky/soul jazz ; Jimmy Smith and jazz organists ; Guitarists

The hard bop legacy. Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard ; Wayne Shorter ; Joe Henderson

Jazz-rock, jazz-funk fusion. Synthesizers

The appeal of rock and funk

The fusion music of Miles Davis. Miles Davis in the early 1970s

Other fusion pioneers. Lifetime ; Mahavishnu orchestra ; Herbie Hancock and Headhunters ; Chick Corea and return to forever ; Weather report ; Pat Metheny

Jazz since the 1980s. Classicism and the jazz repertory movement. Complete jazz-recording reissues ; Live performance ; Wynton Marsalis ; The Blakey alumni and the hard bop renaissance ; Big bands

The popular connection. Digital technology ; Smooth jazz ; Acid jazz ; The mass market: radio and the internet ; Neo-swing

The avant-garde, crossover, world music, and jazz to come. Jazz and feminism ; Jazz abroad ; Crossover, postmodernism, and world music ; Directions for crossover jazz

The future of jazz

Glossary.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-294), discography (p. 295-298) and index.

Local Notes:

Library copy wanting 2 audio discs.

From the personal collection of Penn composer James Primosch, presented to the Penn Libraries by his wife, Mary Murphy.

ISBN:

0534638104

9780534638108

OCLC:

58042911

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