Jazz

Giddins, Gary. (Author). DeVeaux, Scott Knowles. (Added Author).

Summary: History of jazz that explains what jazz is, where it came from, and who created it and why, all within the broader context of American life and culture. Emphasizing its African American roots, Jazz traces the history of the music over the last hundred years. From ragtime and blues to the international craze for swing, from the heated protests of the avant-garde to the radical diversity of today's artists, Jazz describes the travails and triumphs of musical innovators struggling for work, respect, and cultural acceptance set against the backdrop of American history, commerce, and politics. With vibrant photographs by legendary jazz chronicler Herman Leonard, Jazz is also an arresting visual history of a century of music.

Record details

ISBN: 0393068617 (hardcover)
ISBN: 9780393068610 (hardcover)
Physical Description: xiii, 704 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., music ; 25 cm.
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Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, c2009.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 665-675) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

10. Rhythm in transition. Fats Waller, "Christopher Columbus" -- Art Tatum, "Over the rainbow" -- Charlie Christian, "Swing to bop" ("Topsy") -- 11. Modern jazz : bebop. Charlie Parker, "Ko Ko" -- Charlie Parker, "Embraceable you" -- Charlie Parker, "Now's the time" -- Bud Powell, "Tempus fugue-it" -- Dexter Gordon, "Long tall Dexter" -- 12. The 1950s : cool jazz and hard bop. Miles Davis, "Moon dreams" -- Modern Jazz Quartet, "All the things you are" -- Horace Silver, "The preacher" -- Clifford Brown, "A night in Tunisia" -- Sonny Rollins, "Autumn nocturne" -- Wes Montgomery, "Twisted blues" -- 13. Jazz composition in the 1950s. Thelonious Monk, "Thelonious" -- Thelonious Monk, "Rhythm-a-ning" -- Charles Mingus, "Boogie stop shuffle" -- Gil Evans, "King porter stomp" -- George Russell, "Concerto for Billy the Kid" -- 14. Modality : Miles Davis and John Coltrane. Miles Davis, "So what" -- John Coltrane, "Giant steps" -- John Coltrane, "Acknowledgement" -- Miles Davis, "E.S.P." -- 15. The avant-garde. Ornette Coleman, "Lonely woman" -- Cecil Taylor, "Bulbs" -- Cecil Taylor, Willisau concert, "Part 3" -- Albert Ayler, "Ghosts" -- David Murray, "El matador" -- 16. Fusion I : R&B, singers, and Latin jazz. Jimmy Smith, "The organ grinder's swing" -- Frank Sinatra, "The birth of the blues" -- Sarah Vaughan, "Baby, won't you please come home?" -- Dizzy Gillespie, "Manteca" -- Mongo Santamaria, "Watermelon man" -- Stan Getz / Charlie Byrd, "Samba dees days" -- 17. Fusion II : jazz, rock, and beyond. Weather Report, "Teen town" -- Keith Jarrett, "Long as you know you're living yours" -- John Scofield / Medeski, Martin and Wood, "Chank" -- Miles Davis, "Tutu" -- 18. Historicism : jazz on jazz. Anthony Braxton, "Piece three" -- Wynton Marsalis, "Processional" -- Ronald Shannon Jackson, "Now's the time" -- 19. Jazz today. Jason Moran, "You've got to be modernistic" -- Jason Moran, "Planet rock" -- Selected musicians on primary jazz instruments -- Collecting jazz recordings -- Jazz on film.