Paul O.W. Tanner,
University of California---Los Angeles David W. Megill,
MiraCosta College Maurice Gerow,
University of California---Los Angeles
ISBN: 007297642x Copyright year: 2005
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Listening to Jazz
An Overview
Historical Frame of Reference
Understanding Jazz
What to Listen for in Jazz
Listening Guidelines
Summary
For Further Study
Notes
Chapter 2: Jazz Heritages
African and European Influences
Interpretation and Content
African Influences
European Influences
African Americans in the Early Colonies
Creole Music
Field Hollers (Cries)
Work Songs
Minstrels
Religious Music
Gospel
Mahalia Jackson and the African America Church
Marching Bands
Summary
Further Study
Additional Reading Resources
Notes
Chapter 3: The Blues
The Origin
Blue Notes
Field and Prison Hollers
Blues Lyrics
Country and Urban Blues
Singing the Blues
Contemporary Blues
Summary
For Further Study
Suggested Additional Listening
Additional Reading Resources
Chapter 4: Piano Styles: Ragtime to Boogie-Woogie
The Birth of Ragtime
Ragtime and Dixieland Merge
Ragtime Lives On
Stride Piano
Boogie-Woogie
Summary
For Further Study
Suggested Additional Listening
Additional Reading Resources
Notes
Chapter 5: Early New Orleans and Chicago Style Jazz
Early New Orleans Style
Louis Armstrong (1901-71)
Chicago Style (the 1920s)
Later Developments
Summary
For Further Study
Suggested Additional Listening
Additional Reading Resources
Notes
Chapter 6: Swing
Beginnings of the Swing Era
Jazz Arrangements
New York
Kansas City
Southwest Bands--Early Basie
Swing Becomes Accepted
The Swing Bands
Big Band Soloists
Swing Combos
The Demise of Swing
Big-Band Legacy
Swing Singers
Summary
For Further Study
Suggested Additional Listening
Additional Reading Resources
Notes
Chapter 7: Duke Ellington
Washington to New York
The Cotton Club
Touring
The Swing Period
Billy Strayhorn
New Additions and Longer Compositions
Johnny Hodges
A Period of Transition
Late Ellington
Individual and Group Expression
Innovations
Repertoire
For Further Study
Suggested Additional Listening
Additional Reading Resources
Notes
Chapter 8: Bop
The Shift to Bop
The Developing Mainstream and the Jazz Canon
Bop Arranging
Musical Expansion
The Bop Rhythm Section
The Performers
Bop and Progressive Big Bands
Summary
For Further Study
Suggested Additional Listening
Additional Reading Resources
Notes
Chapter 9: Cool/Third Stream
The Sounds of Cool
Cool Bands
The Performers
West Coast Jazz
Third Stream
Jazz in Classical Competition
Summary
For Further Study
Suggested Additional Listening
Additional Reading Resources
Notes
Chapter 10: Miles Davis
Bop
Cool
Small Groups
Modal
Jazz Rock
Jazz Pop
Legacy
Summary
For Further Study
Suggested Additional Listening
Additional Reading Resources
Notes
Chapter 11: Hard Bop, Funky, Gospel Jazz
The Music
Gospel Jazz
The Performers
Art Blakely and the Developing Mainstream
Summary
For Further Study
Suggested Additional Listening
Additional Reading Resources
Notes
Chapter 12: Free Form, Avant-Garde
Ornette Coleman
Cecil Taylor
John Coltrane
Chicago Style of Free Jazz
Contemporary Avant-Garde
The Free Jazz Controversy
Summary
For Further Study
Suggested Additional Listening
Additional Reading Resources
Notes
Chapter 13: Jazz/Rock Fusion
Early Jazz Rock
Fusion
Jazz:A New Popularity
Vocal Jazz
Jazz/Pop
Jazz/Pop Blend
Jazz in Rock
Summary
For Further Study
Suggested Additional Listening
Additional Reading Resources
Notes
Chapter 14: Contemporary Trends: A Maturing Art Form
The Neoclassical School
The Jazz Canon
The Young Lions
Wynton Marsalis
The Trumpet Legacy
The Saxophone Legacy
The Piano Legacy
The Vocal Legacy
Jazz/Pop Distinctions
Vocal Jazz Groups
Summary
For Further Study
Suggested Additional Listening
Additional Reading Resources
Notes
Chapter 15: Latin Jazz
1890s-1910, Early New Orleans
1910s-1920, The Tango Craze
1930s, The Rumba Craze
Clave
1940s, Swing to Cubop
1950s, The Mambo and Cubop
1960s, The Brazilian Wave
1970s, Latin Jazz Fusion
Contemporary Trends
Summary
Suggested Additional Listening
Additional Reading Resources
For Further Study
Notes
Appendix A: Listening Suggestions
Appendix B: Notational Examples
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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