Gridley:Jazz Styles & Demo b/CD _7 (Jazz Styles and Demo CD and Classics CD Package: History and Analysis) - Softcover

Gridley, Mark C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130145165 ISBN 13: 9780130145161

Publisher: Longman Higher Education, 1999

Synopsis

For undergraduate courses in Jazz History, Evolution of Jazz, Jazz and Rock, American Music, Popular Music, African-American Music, Black Music in African-American Music, Jazz in America, Jazz Survey, Understanding Jazz, Jazz Styles, Jazz Appreciation, and Twentieth Century Music.

Focusing on what Jazz is, how it is made, and how to listen to it, this best-selling introduction to jazz skillfully mixes written text with audio recordings to help students learn how to improve their ear for music and gain a deeper appreciation of the many layers of sound found in each recording. Highlighting the musical characteristics of each style and contrasting each successive era in a point-by-point manner, it details the basic musical principles, important styles, musical trends, history, innovations, and instruments of jazz, ideal for both non-musicians and music majors alike, it is easy-to-read, tightly organized, and filled with tips to help increase listening enjoyment as it guides students through the full spectrum of jazz history―from Africa to New Age―examining the major artists and providing an abundance of examples throughout the text and in the accompanying cassettes and CD's.

About this title

From the Back Cover

JAZZ — FROM DIXIELAND TO BEBOP TO FUSION

America's most. widely-used introductory text

Special Features:

• A new chapter on recent jazz (Chapter 17 "Contemporary jazz: 1980 to the Early 2000s")
• Twenty-one guides for listening to historic recordings
• Appendix for nonmusicians explains the elements of music
• Appendix for musicians illustrates comping, bass lines, modes, chord progressions
• JAZZ CLASSICS CD: 23 historic recordings by Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and others, available at an additional cost
• DEMONSTRATION CD: 171 demonstrations of instruments and methods that jazz musicians use, available at an additional cost
• PRENTICE HALL JAZZ COLLECTION: 12 recordings by jelly Roll Morton, Benny Goodman, Thelonius Monk, Herbie Hancock, John Zorn, Uri Caine, and others

About the Author

Mark C. Gridley is an active jazz musician and educator. He has done field research in Africa, the Caribbean, and all the jazz centers of America. His books have been translated into five foreign languages. His articles appear in the Grove Dictionaries of Music, Encyclopaedia Britannica, The Musical Quarterly, The Black Perspective in Music, The Instrumentalist, and Jazz Educators Journal.

David Cutler is a jazz and classical composer and pianist. His compositions have been performed throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. He currently serves on the Duquesne University and Brevard Summer Music Festival faculties.

Edition details

• Publisher: Longman Higher Education
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0130145165
• ISBN 13: 9780130145161
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English