Experiencing Jazz, with CD-ROM

Lawn, Richard

ISBN 10: 0073313254 ISBN 13: 9780073313252

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education, 2006

Riassunto

Experiencing Jazz, as the title suggests, provides an immersive experience using an integrated text, CD-ROM, and audio CD anthology designed for the non-musician or musician whose primary focus is not jazz. Listening to seminal recordings, learning about how musicians create the music, and hearing the music first hand through an interactive companion CD-ROM rich in helpful tutorials as well as audio and video examples helps the non-musician to fully appreciate and become involved in the jazz experience.

The CD-ROM offers excerpts of interviews with many of the performers who made jazz history, as well as other valuable information designed to create active, informed and discerning listeners.

The textbook helps to place important musical trends in a larger cultural and historical context, helping the reader to relate jazz history to other familiar events. It does not overwhelm with long lists of musicians, but focuses on the primary innovators who moved the music in new directions.

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PREFACE

PART I Understanding Jazz

Chapter 1 The Nature of Jazz

That Four Letter Word

Defining Jazz

Jazz Styles Timeline

Chapter Summary

Chapter 2 The Elements of Jazz

Rhythm

Meter and Tempo

Rhythmic Devices Important to Jazz

Swing as an Aspect of Jazz Rhythm

Melody

Blues

Harmony

Texture

Form

Improvisation

Something Borrowed - The European Tradition

Something New, Something Blue - The Jazz Tradition

Chapter Summary

Study Questions

Chapter 3 Listening to Jazz

Performance Practice

Instruments of Jazz

The Drum Set and Swing

A Jazz Veteran Discusses the Rhythm Section

Orchestration and Instrumentation

The Arrangement

Instrumental Techniques

Special Effects – The Sounds of Jazz

Understanding Improvisation

Understanding the Performance

Describing the Performance

The Jam Session

What Happens in a Jam Session?

Video Blues

Chapter Summary

Study Questions

Chapter 4 The Roots of Jazz

Out of Africa: The Significance of African Music to Jazz

Musical Aesthetic

Rhythm in African Music

Melody in African Music

African Music as a Means of Communication

Improvisation in African Music

Form in African Music

Early American Vocal Music

Getting the Blues

W.C. Handy -“Father of the Blues” (1873-1958)

Ragtime

Brass Bands

Jazz in Perspective

Chapter Summary

Study Questions

Suggested Supplementary Listening

PART II Classic Jazz

Chapter 5 Jazz Takes Root

New Orleans-The Birthplace of Jazz

Dixieland Jazz Band Instrumentation

Early Artists and Their Recordings

Original Dixieland Jazz Band

Kid Ory (1890-1973)

Joe “King” Oliver (1885-1938)

Jelly Roll Morton (1890-1941)

Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)

Sidney Bechet (1897-1959)

The Pianists

James P. Johnson (1891-1955)

The Reception of Early Jazz

Jazz in Perspective

Chapter Summary

Study Questions

Suggested Supplementary Listening

Chapter 6 The Jazz Age: From Chicago to New York

South Side of Chicago

And On the Other Side of Town

The Chicago Sound

New Orleans Rhythm Kings (N.O.R.K.)

A Few Among Many

Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931) and Frankie Trumbauer (1901-1956)

Paul Whiteman ( 1890-1967) and Symphonic Jazz

Boogie-Woogie, Eight to the Bar

Chicago Jazz in Retrospect

The Decline of the Chicago Era

New York and the Harlem Renaissance

Marketing Jazz

Jazz in Perspective

Chapter Summary

Study Questions

Suggested Supplementary Listening

Chapter 7 The Swing Era: Jazz at Its Peak

The Depths of the Depression

The Country Recovers

The Anatomy of Swing Era Jazz Band

Instrumentation

Repertoire and Arrangement

Swing in the East

Fletcher Henderson (1897-1952)

Coleman Hawkins-“The Father of Jazz Tenor Saxophone” (1904-1969)

Elegant Ellington (1899-1974): Music Was His Mistress

Benny Goodman-The “King of Swing” (1909-1986)

Popular White Swing Bands

Artie Shaw

Jazz in Perspective

Chapter Summary

Study Questions

Suggested Supplementary Listening

Chapter 8 Mid-West Swing and A Few More Among Many

Mid-West and Southwest Swing

Territory Bands

Mary Lou Williams (1910-1981)

Kansas City

William “Count” Basie (1904-1984)

Lester Young (1909-1959)

The Success of Big Bands

A Few More Among Many: The Swing Era Singers and Pianists

Billie Holiday (1915-1959)

Ella Fitzgerald (1918-1996): The First Lady of Song

Art Tatum (1909-1956)

Traditional Jazz Revival

Conclusion

Jazz in Perspective

Chapter Summary

Study Questions

Suggested Supplementary Listening

PART III Modern Jazz

Chapter 9 The Bebop Revolution

The End of An Era

Summary

The Life-Style and Musical Characteristics

The Birth of Bebop: The First Recordings

Characteristics of the Style

Bebop Performance Practice and Instrumental Roles Redefined

A Few Among Many

The Horn Players

Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993)

Charlie Parker (1920-1955)

J.J. Johnson (1924-2001)

Dexter Gordon (1923-1990)

Sonny Rollins (b1930)

Fats Navarro (1923-1950)

The Rhythm Section Players

Bud Powell (1924-1966)

Thelonious Sphere Monk (1917-82)

Tadd Dameron (1917-1965)

Oscar Pettiford (1922-1960)

Kenny Clarke (1914-1985)

Max Roach (b 1924)

Sarah Vaughan: The “Devine One” ((1924 – 1990)

The Decline of Bebop

Jazz in Perspective

Appendix

Chapter Summary

Appendix

Study Questions

Suggested Supplementary Listening

Chapter 10 Be Cool: Fifties and Early Sixties Cool, Intellectual and Abstract Jazz

Characteristics of Cool Jazz

West and East Coast Musicians Who Developed the Cool Sound

Miles Davis and Gil Evans: The Birth of the Cool

Gerry Mulligan (1927-1996) and Chet Baker (1929-1988)

Dave Brubeck (b1920)

Bill Evans (1929-1980)

Stan Getz (1927-1991)

A Few More Among Many

Modern Jazz Quartet

Lennie Tristano (1919-1978)

Third Stream Jazz

Who Was Popular?

Staying Cool with Jazz in the 1950s

Jazz in Perspective

Chapter Summary

Study Questions

Suggested Supplementary Listening

PART IV Post-Modern Jazz

Chapter 11 Tradition Meets the Avant-Garde: Moderns and Early Post-Moderns Coexist

The Characteristics of Hard Bop

Art Blakey Carries the Message (1919-1990)

The Messengers

More About Funky, Soul-Jazz and the ‘50s and ‘60s

Organ Trios and the Guitar

Wes Montgomery (1923-1968)

Jimmy Smith (b1925)

Clifford Brown (1930-1956) and Max Roach (b1924)

Defining Post-Modernism

Post-Modern Jazz Comes of Age With Ornette Coleman (b1930) and His Disciples

Charles Mingus (1922-1979) -The Underdog

The End of Modern Jazz Heralded by the Beginning of the Post-Moderns

Jazz in Perspective

Chapter Summary

Study Questions

Suggested Supplementary Listening

Chapter 12 Miles and Miles of Miles: Miles Davis and His Sidemen

The 1960s: An Age of Peace, Love and War

The Music

The Early Miles

The First Great Quintet

Modal Jazz

Miles and Gil

The Second Great Quintet

The Electronic Jazz-Rock Fusion Period

Miles Davis Summary

The Davis Sidemen Become Major Forces

John Coltrane (1926-1967)

John Coltrane Summary

Wayne Shorter (b1933)

Herbie Hancock (b 1940)

Jazz in Perspective

Chapter Summary

Study Questions

Suggested Supplementary Listening

Chapter 13 The Electric 1970s and 1980s

Jazz and Rock: The two-way connection

Miles Beyond: Living in the Shadow of Miles Davis

Weather Report

Herbie Hancock and the Head Hunters

John McLaughlin (b1942) and the Mahavishnu Orchestra

Chick Corea (b1941) and Return to Forever

Soul and Pop Instrumental Jazz

David Sanborn (b1945)

The Brecker Brothers

Grover Washington, Jr. (1943-1999)

Chuck Mangione (b1940)

Steps Ahead

Jazz in Perspective

Chapter Summary

Study Questions

Suggested Supplementary Listening

Chapter 14 The Unplugged, Eclectic 1970s and 1980s

Long Live Acoustic Jazz

The ECM Sound

Keith Jarrett (b1945)

Return of Ex-Patriots Unleash a Return of Acoustic Jazz

Wynton Marsalis (b1961) and the Young Lions

The Freedom Fighters Take Risks

Anthony Braxton (b1945)

Cecil Taylor (b1929)

Ornette Coleman

Old Bottles, New Wines-Big Bands are Forever

Buddy Rich (1917-1987)

Woody Herman (1913-1987)

Maynard Ferguson (b1928)

Stan Kenton (1911-1979)

Thad Jones (1923-1986) and Mel Lewis (1929-1990)

Toshiko Akiyoshi (b1929)

Signs of the Times

New Technologies, Changing Business Models, Lost Artists and High Art: The Changing Jazz Landscape as the Millennium Comes to a Close

Jazz in Perspective

Chapter Summary

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• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0073313254
• ISBN 13: 9780073313252
• Rilegatura: CD-ROM
• Numero di pagine: 288