Concise Guide to Jazz 7th Edition by Mark Gridley, ISBN-13: 978-0205937004
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- Publisher: Pearson; 7th edition (December 27, 2012)
- Language: English
- 320 pages
- ISBN-10: 0205937004
- ISBN-13: 978-0205937004
An introduction to jazz and how to listen to it.
Written by active jazz musician and jazz historian Mark Gridley, the Concise Guide to Jazz was created in response to students and professors asking for a clear and accurate introductory jazz text. This brief text examines how jazz originated, how it is made, what to listen for, and the major style eras. By focusing on just over fifty historical figures, Concise Guide to Jazz, seventh edition allows students to understand a broad range of jazz styles without feeling overloaded. Concise Guide to Jazz focuses on the diversity of jazz styles and serves as a basis for further jazz exploration.
Upon completing this book, readers will be able to:
- Begin to appreciate how jazz is made
- Know how to extract the most depth of experience from listening to jazz
- Know who the most historically significant jazz musicians are
- Know why each significant musician is important
- Distinguish the main style eras
Table of Contents:
Contents
Prentice Hall Jazz Collection
Preface
THE BOOK AND ITS SUPPLEMENTS
DESIGNING YOUR COURSE
WHAT IS NEW TO THIS EDITION?
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Chapter 1 What is Jazz?
Chapter Outline
The World of Jazz
Defining Jazz
Improvisation
Swing Feeling
Studying Different Jazz Styles Historically
Summary
Further Resources
Chapter 2 How to Listen to Jazz
Chapter Outline
Open Your Ears
How Do Musicians Keep Their Place While Improvising?
Instrument Roles
Are Solo Improvisations Completely Original?
Summary
Key Terms
Further Resources
Chapter 3 The Origins of Jazz
Chapter Outline
Beginnings
New Orleans
The Blues
Brass Bands
Ragtime
Combining Influences
The Party Atmosphere
Summary
Key Terms
Further Resources
Chapter 4 Early Jazz
Chapter Outline
A New Style
Instruments In Early Jazz Bands
Early Jazz Innovators
Jelly Roll Morton
James P. Johnson
Fats Waller
Earl Hines
Louis Armstrong
Bix Beiderbecke
Vocal Blues
Popularity Of Early Jazz
Summary
Key Terms
Further Resources
Chapter 5 Swing
Chapter Outline
How Swing Differs From Early Jazz
Instruments In Swing Bands
Swing Era Soloists
Roy Eldridge
Coleman Hawkins
Swing Era Bandleaders
Kansas City Style
Count Basie
Lester Young
Benny Goodman
Duke Ellington
Ellington’s Compositions and Repertory
Vocalists
Billie Holiday
Ella Fitzgerald
Pianists
Art Tatum
Mary Lou Williams
The Popularity of Swing
Summary
Key Terms
Further Resources
Chapter 6 Bebop
Chapter Outline
The Birth of Bebop
How Bebop Differs from Swing Style
Charlie Parker
Dizzy Gillespie
Thelonious Monk
Bud Powell
Dexter Gordon
Stan Getz
Sarah Vaughan
The Popularity of Bebop
Summary
Key Terms
Further Resources
Chapter 7 Cool Jazz
Chapter Outline
Lennie Tristano
Lee Konitz
Birth of The Cool
Gerry Mulligan
Dave Brubeck
Stan Kenton
The Popularity of Cool Jazz
Summary
Key terms
Further Resources
Chapter 8 Hard Bop
Chapter Outline
Horace Silver
Miles Davis
The Classic Miles Davis Quintet
The Miles Davis Trumpet Style
Clifford Brown
Freddie Hubbard
Cannonball Adderley
Sonny Rollins
John Coltrane
Wes Montgomery
The Popularity of Hard Bop
Summary
Further Resources
Chapter 9 Avant-Garde of the 1960s and 70s
Chapter Outline
Ornette Coleman
Cecil Taylor
Modal Jazz
Bill Evans
Miles Davis Mid-’60s Quintet
The Popularity of Avant-Garde Jazz
Summary
Key Terms
Further Resources
Chapter 10 Fusion
Chapter Outline
Fusion
Distinguishing Jazz from Rock
How Did Jazz and Rock Merge?
Miles Davis and Fusion
Instrumentation
Performance Format
John McLaughlin
Weather Report
Herbie Hancock
Chick Corea
Smooth Jazz
Acid Jazz
Sampling
Looping
Overdubbing
Turntablists
Categories of Acid Jazz
Dominant Aspects of Acid Jazz
But is It Jazz?
The Appeal of Fusion
Summary
Key Terms
Further Resources
Chapter 11 1985 to the Present
Chapter Outline
Soul Saxes and “Contemporary Jazz”
Continuing Legacies
Fresh Approaches
Latin Jazz
Contemporary Big Bands
Celebrating the Past
Popular Appeal
Summary
Key Terms
Further Resources
Elements of Music
Beat
Tempo
Meter
Rhythm
Syncopation
Eighth Notes
Triplets
Sixteenth Notes
Dotted Eighth-Sixteenth Note Pattern
Tied Triplet Figure
Legato and Staccato
Swing Eighth-Note Pattern
Polyrhythm
Scales, Keys, Tonality, and Modality
Blue Notes
Chords and Chord Progressions
Chord Voicing
The Blues
The Thirty-Two-Bar A-A-B-A Tune
Listening for the Twelve-Bar Blues and Thirty-Two-Bar Forms
Detecting Other Forms
Modal Forms
The Effects of Form on Improvisation
Phrasing in Relation to Form
Tone Color
Music Buying Strategies
Minimizing Risk in Selecting Albums
Confusing Album Titles
About Reissues
Many Versions of the Same Tune
Rare Record Dealers, Importers, and Auctioneers
Mail Order In-Print Albums
A Small Basic Collection of Jazz Videos
Glossary
For Musicians
Chords and Chord Progressions
Twelve-Bar Blues Progressions
Modes
Modal Construction for “So What” and “Impressions”
Walking Bass Lines
Comping
Comping Figures for “Rhythm Changes”
Index
Media Reviews
Author Biography
Demonstration Compact Disc Contents
Dr. Mark C. Gridley is the author of Jazz Styles: History and Analysis, America’s most widely used introduction to jazz. It emerged from the History and Styles of Jazz course that he had developed at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Jazz Styles has been required for jazz history classes in more than 400 colleges and universities. The book has been translated into 5 foreign languages, and its influence and reference value led to Gridley’s listing in Who’s Who in America. A Cleveland-based jazz flutist-saxophonist-bandleader, Gridley has also conducted field research in Africa and the Caribbean. For his studies of jazz popularity, Gridley earned the Distinguished Achievement Award of the Educational Press Association of America. His articles on jazz styles and teaching jazz appreciation appear in the Grove Dictionaries of Music, Encyclopaedia Britannica, The Black Perspective in Music, Black Music Research Journal, The Musical Quarterly, The Instrumentalist, Current Musicology, College Music Symposium, Popular Music and Society, and Jazz Educator’s Journal. His research on perception and preferences in music and art has been published in several scientific journals.
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