Jazz: Essential Listening (Second Edition)
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Scott DeVeaux / Gary Giddins
résumé
The Essentials edition of the No.1 jazz text, now with Total Access Now with streaming audio for every track, this text provides everything students need for listening to, understanding, and loving jazz. Written by two master storytellers, the book combines a dynamic listening experience with vivid narrative history, must-hear masterworks, and a superior media package to reveal the excitement of America’s quintessential music.
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Preface
Introduction
PART I: EARLY JAZZ (1900?1930)
Chapter 1: The Roots of Jazz
Chapter 2: New Orleans
Chapter 3: New York in the 1920s
Chapter 4: Louis Armstrong and the First Great Soloists
PART II: THE SWING ERA
Chapter 5: Swing Bands
Chapter 6: Count Basie and Duke Ellington
Chapter 7: A World of Soloists
PART III: MODERN JAZZ
Chapter 8: Bebop
Chapter 9: The 1950s: Cool Jazz and Hard Bop
Chapter 10: Jazz Composition in the 1950s
Chapter 11: Modality: Miles Davis and John Coltrane
PART IV: THE AVANT-GARDE, FUSION, HISTORICISM, AND NOW
Chapter 12: The Avant-Garde
Chapter 13: Fusion
Chapter 14: Historicism: Jazz on Jazz
Chapter 15: Jazz Today