Jazz styles : history and analysis / Mark C. Gridley.
| Author/creator | Gridley, Mark C., 1947- |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | Tenth edition. |
| Publication Info | Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson Prentice Hall, ©2009. |
| Description | xv, 514 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 1. Introduction -- 2. What is jazz? -- 3. Appreciating jazz improvisation -- 4. Origins of jazz -- 5. Early jazz : combo jazz prior to the middle 30s -- 6. Swing : the early 1930s to the late 1940s -- 7. Duke Ellington -- 8. The Count Basie Bands -- 9. Bop : the early 1940s to the early 1950s -- 10. Cool jazz -- 11. Hard bop -- 12. Miles Davis, his groups & sidemen -- 13. John Coltrane -- 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 -- 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. |
| Abstract | This book gives readers a peek into how jazz musicians put together performances and how their methods have differed from style to style. There is discussion of how jazz originated, and provides examples of the roots, the earliest recordings, and many major styles that developed later. Styles are described in ways that should help the reader get more out of listening to them. The music is presented in roughly chronological order, and the historically minded reader can use that order to examine major currents in the history of jazz. This particular book was intended, however, more as a description of the styles themselves rather than a decade-by-decade chronicle of the changing jazz scene. It was designed as a smorgasbord of information so readers would have a flexible reference source. It can be used in an introductory course in jazz appreciation or a single-semester course in jazz history. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-487) and index. |
| LCCN | 2007050313 |
| ISBN | 0136005896 |
| ISBN | 9780136005896 |