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Jazz styles : history and analysis / Mark C. Gridley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: upper saddle river Pearson, 2012.Edition: 2nd custom editionDescription: 513 p. : ill. (some col.)ISBN:
  • 9781256406396
  • 1256406392
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • ML 3506 .G7 2012
Contents:
Part I: Basics of jazz. What is jazz? ; Appreciating jazz improvisation -- Part II: Premodern jazz. Origins of jazz ; Early jazz: combo jazz prior to the middle 1930s ; Swing: the early 1930s to the late 1940s ; Duke Ellington ; The Count Basie bands -- Part III: Modern jazz: the early 1940s to the early 1960s. Bop: the early 1940s to the early 1950s ; Cool jazz ; Hard Bop ; Miles Davis, his groups and sidemen ; John Coltrane -- Part IV: Modern jazz: the early 1960s to the present. 1960s and 1970s avant-garde and "free" jazz ; Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, and Keith Jarrett ; Jazz-rock fusion ; 1980 to the present ; 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.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode
General circulation General circulation Mtito Andei Centre Library General Stacks ML 3506 .G7 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3kwa 2016/015217
General circulation General circulation Mtito Andei Centre Library General Stacks ML 3506 .G7 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3kwa 2016/015218
General circulation General circulation Mtito Andei Centre Library General Stacks ML 3506 .G7 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3kwa 2016/015220

Includes bibliographical references (p. 483-489) and index.

Part I: Basics of jazz. What is jazz? ; Appreciating jazz improvisation -- Part II: Premodern jazz. Origins of jazz ; Early jazz: combo jazz prior to the middle 1930s ; Swing: the early 1930s to the late 1940s ; Duke Ellington ; The Count Basie bands -- Part III: Modern jazz: the early 1940s to the early 1960s. Bop: the early 1940s to the early 1950s ; Cool jazz ; Hard Bop ; Miles Davis, his groups and sidemen ; John Coltrane -- Part IV: Modern jazz: the early 1960s to the present. 1960s and 1970s avant-garde and "free" jazz ; Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, and Keith Jarrett ; Jazz-rock fusion ; 1980 to the present ; 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.

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