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Introduction. America's classical music, precursors -- Ragtime. A southern rag, style characteristics, piano rags, Scott Joplin, James Scott, Joseph F. Lamb, ragtime jazz -- The blues. Blues form, country blues, "Papa" Charlie Jackson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Huddie Ledbetter, Robert Johnson, the classic blues, Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, W.C. Handy, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, Bertha "Chippie" Hill, Mamie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Ethel Waters, Jimmy Rushing, urban blues, instrumental blues, Joe "King" Oliver -- Jazz in its infancy. Historical overview: from the beginning to World War I, jazz: a musical definition, the east, the midwest, the southwest, the south, New Orleans, the jazz combo, early jazz musicians and their music, ragtime jazz bands, thoughts on the history of jazz -- The jazz age: from World War I through the roaring twenties. Jazz and morality, Bunk Johnson, Papa Celestin, Sidney Bechet, the New Orleans sound, King Oliver, Kid Ory and friends, the ODJB, Jelly Roll Morton, the jazz explosion, the New York School, James P. Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Earl "Fatha" Hines, the jazz community, women in jazz, Bix Beiderbecke, boogie-woogie, Chicago jazz -- The swing era. The great depression, jazz, and popular music, the emergence of substyles, the arranger: Don Redman, the composer: Duke Ellington, early swing bands, Kansas City swing, the "king of swing": Benny Goodman, musical characteristics, vocalists, Art Tatum, Gene Krupa, Charlie Christian, Coleman Hawkins, the Basie Band, Lester Young, Lionel Hampton, territory bands, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Glenn Miller, World War II, women instrumentalists, post-war swing -- The bebop revolution. Origins of a new style, musical characteristics, The Bird: Charlie Parker, "Dizzy": John Birks Gillespie, the music, three aspects of the repertoire, more about Bird, the pianists: Tadd Dameron, Bud Powell, and Thelonious Monk, more about Mary Lou Williams, big bands, looking back -- A proliferation of styles: from the '40s through the '50s. Overview, cool jazz, third stream, west coast jazz, funky and hard bop, something old and something new, Sonny Rollins, something borrowed, modal jazz: Miles Davis and Kind of Blue, social cause and musical effect, summing up the '50s -- Social and musical revolution: the 1960s. Free jazz: Ornette Coleman, musical reactions, a central figure: John Coltrane, Out in Front: Miles Davis in the '60s and '70s, the new groups, the AACM, one more time -- Confusion and fusion: from the '70s to the '80s. Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis again, Cecil Taylor, the keyboard players: Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Joe Zawinul, Weather Report, the Mahavishnu orchestra, the AACM and the Art Ensemble of Chicago, rehearsal and recording bands, the decade in review -- A plurality of styles: through the '80s and into the '90s. Fusion and Miles Davis, neoclassicism and modern bebop, Wynton Marsalis, other neoclassicists, free jazz of the '80s: George Lewis, jazz composition in the 1980s: Anthony Davis, postmodernism and jazz: Jane Ira Bloom, new sounds, new wave, new age, and good old-fashioned jazz, Ray Anderson, today and tomorrow -- Appendices -- Listening guides. Robert Johnson, "I believe I'll dust my broom" ; Louis Armstrong, "Cornet Chop Suey" ; Frankie Trumbauer, "Ostrich walk" ; Art Tatum, "Tiger Rag" ; Duke Ellington, "Clarinet lament (Barney's concerto)" ; Count Basie, "Tickle-toe" ; Benny Goodman, "Mission to Moscow" ; Dizzy Gillespie, "Groovin' high" ; Lee Konitz, "Marshmallow" ; Charlie Parker, "Confirmation" ; Gerry Mulligan, "I can't believe that you're in love with me" ; Horace Silver, "The preacher" ; George Russell, "All about Rosie" ; Miles Davis, "Dr. Jekyll" ; John Coltrane, "Giant steps" ; Ornette Coleman, "Change of the century" ; Thelonious Monk, "Bemsha swing" ; Miles Davis, "Circle" ; Weather Report, "Tears" ; Wynton Marsalis, "Delfeayo's dilemma" -- Transcriptions. "S.O.L. Blues," Louis Armstrong solo ; "Struttin' with some barbecue," Louis Armstrong solo ; "West end blues," Louis Armstrong solo ; "Body and soul," Coleman Hawkins solo ; "Lester leaps in," Head and Lester Young solo ; "I can't get started," Dizzy Gillespie solo ; "Embraceable you," Charlie Parker solo ; "Little Benny," Head and Charlie Parker solo ; "Parker's mood," introduction and Charlie Parker solo ; "Giant steps," Head and John Coltrane solo ; "Blue train," Head and John Coltrane solo ; "So what," Miles Davis solo -- Synoptic table -- Annotated bibliography -- Selected discography -- Indices to the record collections -- Glossary. |
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