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Jazz Styles: History and Analysis, 10/E
Mark C. Gridley, Heidelberg College

ISBN-10: 0136005896
ISBN-13: 9780136005896

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2009
Format: Paper; 528 pp
Published: 01/07/2008

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For undergraduate courses in Jazz History, Jazz Survey, Evolution of Jazz, Introduction to Jazz, and Jazz Appreciation.

 

America’s most widely used introduction to jazz, it teaches the chronology of jazz by showing students how to listen and what to notice in each style. Though originally conceived for nonmusicians and written at a college freshmen reading level, Jazz Styles also has been widely adopted in courses for musicians because of its point-by-point specification of each style’s musical characteristics and its technical appendix. The text helps students hear how the styles differ and why the top names are important.

Retains coverage of history by charts—Listing major players in each style with silhouettes of the instruments they play.

 

Continues solid musical description for each historic style and exemplars—Early jazz, swing, bop, cool, hard bop, free jazz, fusion, smooth jazz, acid jazz, etc.

 

Respectful coverage of women vocalists within five different eras—African American vocal techniques (Origins of Jazz), vocal blues and Bessie Smith (Early Jazz), Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald (swing), Sarah Vaughan (bop), Betty Carter (1980-2005 chapter)

 

High interest listening guides—With solo-by-solo access via individual track numbers.

 

CDs availalbe to be packaged with the text or purchased separately:

 

DEMO CD is 72 minutes with the author’s narrative.  Explains 12-bar blues, A-A-B-A form, ride rhythms, walking bass, comping, syncopations, trumpet vs. flugelhorn, clarinet vs. soprano sax vs. alto sax vs. tenor sax vs. baritone sax, Harmon mute, plunger mute, chords, chord changes, blue notes, trombone, vibraphone, and flute    

 

Jazz Classics CD 3CD set of 55 historic recordings—West African folk music, African American Gospel, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, James P. Johnson, Lester Young, Roy Eldridge, Benny Goodman, Charlie Christian, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Woody Herman, Stan Getz, Lee Konitz, Stan Kenton, Lennie Tristano, Dave Brubeck, Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane, Chick Corea, Wayne Shorter, Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Albert Ayler, Weather Report, etc.

 

DVD:  Listening to Jazz—60-minute video version of the DEMO CD by Steve Gryb.  Demonstrates all the instruments plus rhythm section methods

 

NEW - 3rd CD added to the already rich selection offered with Jazz Styles. Jazz Classics CD 3CD set now contains 55 historic recordings–West African folk music, African American Gospel, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, James P. Johnson, Lester Young, Roy Eldridge, Benny Goodman, Charlie Christian, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Woody Herman, Stan Getz, Lee Konitz, Stan Kenton, Lennie Tristano, Dave Brubeck, Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane, Chick Corea, Wayne Shorter, Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Albert Ayler, Weather Report, etc. CD's are available packaged with the text, or for sale separately.  See your publisher's representative for a complete listing.

 

NEW - Improved Four-Color Design

 

NEW - Call outs for required listening

 

NEW - Visual Summaries throughout

 

NEW - Chapter Summaries and Review Lists

 

NEW - New Chapter on Contemporary Jazz

 

NEW-  More coverage of important female jazz musicians including new passages on Maria Schneider and Carla Bley.

 

NEW - CD of historic recordings containing pieces by Mary Lou Williams and Carla Bley.

 

NEW - Recording and listening guide for a piece by the Stan Kenton big band, featuring Maynard Ferguson.

CONTENTS

 

Preface                                                                     

Acknowledgements                                                    

 

1          INTRODUCTION                                                                 

 

PART I           BASICS OF JAZZ

 

2          WHAT IS JAZZ?                                                                   

3          APPRECIATING JAZZ IMPROVISATION                           

 

PART II          PREMODERN JAZZ

 

4          ORIGINS OF JAZZ                                                              

5          EARLY JAZZ: COMBO JAZZ PRIOR TO THE MIDDLE

6          SWING:  THE EARLY 1930s TO THE LATE 1940s 

7          DUKE ELLINGTON                                                             

8          THE COUNT BASIE BANDS                                               

 

PART III        MODERN JAZZ:  THE EARLY 1940s to the EARLY 1960s

 

9          BOP:  THE EARLY 1940s to the EARLY 1950s                    

10        COOL JAZZ                                                                          

11        HARD BOP                                                                            

12        MILES DAVIS, HIS GROUPS & SIDEMEN            

13        JOHN COLTRANE                                                               

 

PART IV        MODERN JAZZ:  THE EARLY 1960s to the PRESENT

 

14        1960s and 1970s AVANT-GARDE and “FREE” JAZZ          

15        BILL EVANS, HERBIE HANCOCK, CHICK COREA, and KEITH JARRETT                                                

16        JAZZ-ROCK FUSION                                                          

17        1980 to the PRESENT                                                

18        OTHER VOICES                                                                   

 

APPENDICES

 

Appendix A:     Brief Outline of Jazz Styles                               

Appendix B:     Elements of Music                                            

Appendix C:     Strategies for Buying Recorded Music             

Appendix D:     A Small Basic Collection of Jazz Videos           

Appendix E:     Glossary                                                          

Appendix F:     Supplementary Reading                                   

Appendix G:     Sources for Solo Transcriptions                       

Appendix H:     For Musicians                                                  

 

Index                                                                                       

 

 

    For undergraduate courses in Jazz History, Jazz Survey, Evolution of Jazz, Introduction to Jazz, and Jazz Appreciation.

    America’s most widely used introduction to jazz, it teaches the chronology of jazz by showing students how to listen and what to notice in each style. Though originally conceived for nonmusicians and written at a college freshmen reading level, Jazz Styles also has been widely adopted in courses for musicians because of its point-by-point specification of each style’s musical characteristics and its technical appendix. The text helps students hear how the styles differ and why the top names are important. The book’s listening guides offer in-depth analysis for 38 historic recordings contained on the 2CD Jazz Classics collection.

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    America’s most widely used introduction to jazz, it teaches the chronology of jazz by showing students how to listen and what to notice in each style. Though originally conceived for nonmusicians and written at a college freshmen reading level, Jazz Styles also has been widely adopted in courses for musicians because of its point-by-point specification of each style’s musical characteristics and its technical appendix. The text helps students hear how the styles differ and why the top names are important.

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