Synopsis
This set includes all of the pieces that are analyzed in the text. Further, when played back using the Automated Listening software included in MyMusicKit, students can cue up specific moments and listen carefully to each composition as it unfolds. We highly recommend that all students purchase this CD set alng with the book so they may maximize their learning.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Review
"...the best approach to contemporary classroom jazz education extant." — Jazz Times
"...clearly a text designed to fit a ten-week college quarter; but it can also serve nicely as an informative introduction to jazz for novice fans...Gridley manages to touch most of the important musical bases with chapters devoted to early jazz, swing, bebop, cool jazz, hard bop, avant-garde and fusion ...a few hours with the Concise Guide to jazz will add immeasurably to one's enjoyment of the music." — Jazz Forum
From the Back Cover
The author tells what jazz is, how it originated, and how it is made. He emphasizes effective strategies to get the most out of listening to jazz. Focusing on 46 of the most historically significant musicians, Gridley offers a basic, first-time orientation to jazz.
Special Features- NEW TO THIS EDITION is a chapter entitled NOW which considers recent developments in contemporary jazz and discusses such players as: John Zorn, Kenny G, Dave Sanborn, Joe Henderson, and Wayne Shorter.
- EASY-TO-FOLLOW LISTENING GUIDES are keyed to 99 track numbers, chorus-by-chorus, on the 76-minute Classics CD (ISBN 0-13--142497-1): 21 historic recordings by Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and many more.
- The 72-minute Demonstration CD (ISBN 0-13-142496-3): 157 narrated illustrations of instruments and methods that jazz musicians use to make their music.
- The text is available at a discounted package price combined with the 2 accompanying CDs (ISBN 0-13-183979-9), or with just the Classics CD (ISBN 0-13-183980-2), or with just the Demonstration CD (ISBN 0-13-142519-6).
- Both CDs and a videocassette version of the Demonstration CD (Listening to jazz by Steve Gryb; ISBN 0-13-532$624) can be ordered by phoning $00-947-7700.
- 104 STUNNING PHOTOS of top musicians at work, with captions summarizing their contributions.
- ELEMENTS OF MUSIC APPENDIX offers an illustrated short course in the basics of music: rhythm, scales, blue notes, chord progressions, song forms, and tone color.
- ALBUM BUYING STRATEGIES APPENDIX gives handy pointers for quickly selecting and locating the best albums.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Search results for Jazz Classics CDs for Concise Guide to Jazz
Stock Image
Jazz Classics CDs for Concise Guide to Jazz
Seller: World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Condition: Very Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Seller Inventory # 00046963761
Stock Image
Jazz Classics Compact Discs Concise Guide to Jazz
Seller: Booksavers of Virginia, Harrisonburg, VA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Audio CD. Condition: Good. CD pasteboard case (8" x 10") and disc holder are good and the 2 disc are scratchless. Your purchase benefits the world-wide relief efforts of Mennonite Central Committee. Seller Inventory # mon0000315423