Jazz Styles

• Author : Mark C. Gridley
• Publisher : Prentice Hall
• Release : 10 April 1988

Key Benefit: This broad and encompassing survey provides a rich, informative, and chronological study of jazz, with insightful commentaries on its origins, and full descriptions of the various styles of jazz and the personalities that have contributed to this innovative form of music. Key Topics: Discussions of benchmark styles with point-by-point differentiation cover early jazz, swing, bop, hard bop, cool jazz, "free" jazz, and jazz-rock fusion--highlighting the musical characteristics of each style and contrasting each successive era. Market: For musicians

• Author : David Baker
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 10 April 1976

• Author : Ted Gioia
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release : 10 April 2021

"The History of Jazz, 3rd edition, is a comprehensive survey of jazz music from its origins until the current day. The book is designed for general readers and students, as well as those with more specialized interest in jazz and music history. It provides detailed biographical information and an overview of the musical contributions of the key innovators in development of jazz, including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles

• Author : Harry Miedema
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 10 April 1975

• Author : Chad West,Mike Titlebaum
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release : 10 April 2021

Written by an experienced and diverse lineup of veteran jazz educators, Teaching School Jazz presents a comprehensive approach to teaching beginning through high school-level jazz. Thoroughly grounded in the latest research, chapters are supported by case studies woven into the narrative. The book therefore provides not only a wealth of school jazz teaching strategies but also the perspectives and principles from which they are derived. The book opens with a philosophical foundation to describe the current landscape of school jazz

• Author : Jack Petersen
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 10 April 1979

• Author : Dave Gelly
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 14 February 2019

For its initiates, jazz is instinctive and engaging--the way that popular music should be. For non-aficionados, it can be slippery and difficult to grasp: without familiar forms or a hard-and-fast format, and largely ruled by improvisation, jazz leaves the novice baffled, not sure how to listen, and asking "how is it that they know what to play?" 30-Second Jazz explains, in easy, short riffs that keep you engaged, taking readers from the African-American roots of jazz all the way to

• Author : Damon J. Phillips
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release : 21 July 2013

There are over a million jazz recordings, but only a few hundred tunes have been recorded repeatedly. Why did a minority of songs become jazz standards? Why do some songs--and not others--get rerecorded by many musicians? Shaping Jazz answers this question and more, exploring the underappreciated yet crucial roles played by initial production and markets--in particular, organizations and geography--in the development of early twentieth-century jazz. Damon Phillips considers why places like New York played more important roles as engines of

• Author : Marc Myers
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 26 February 2019

Why Jazz Happened is the first comprehensive social history of jazz. It provides an intimate and compelling look at the many forces that shaped this most American of art forms and the many influences that gave rise to jazz's post-war styles. Rich with the voices of musicians, producers, promoters, and others on the scene during the decades following World War II, this book views jazz's evolution through the prism of technological advances, social transformations, changes in the law, economic trends,

• Author : John Mehegan
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 10 April 1970

• Author : Miles Davis,David Baker
• Publisher : Alfred Music
• Release : 10 April 1980

The Giants of Jazz series is designed to provide a method for studying, analyzing, imitating and assimilating the idiosyncratic and general facets of the styles of various jazz giants. The Davis book provides many transcriptions, plus discography, biographical data, list of innovations, genealogy, bibliography and comments.

• Author : David Baker,John Coltrane
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 10 April 1980

Transskriptioner efter pladeindspilninger med John Coltrane

• Author : David Baker,Cannonball Adderley
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 10 April 1980

Transskriptioner efter pladeindspilninger med "Cannonball" Adderley

• Author : David Urquhart-Jones
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 10 April 1995

• Author : Bruce Crowther,Mike Pinfold
• Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
• Release : 10 April 1997

Explores the evolution of jazz singing with profiles of great performers, discussing how they learned their craft and the experiences that shaped their careers