Jazz - Softcover

Tanner, Paul O. W.; Gerow, Maurice; Megill, David

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0697288072 ISBN 13: 9780697288073

Publisher: Brown (William C.) Co ,U.S., 1996

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This outstanding introduction to the art of jazz -- and the art of listening to jazz -- offers eye-catching design, a conversational style, and broad scope to appeal to the widest audience. Helping readers make sense of changes in style and offering detailed listening guides that increase their musical pleasure, this book offers the total jazz experience from the African heritage to Ragtime and Dixieland through Swing, Bop, and Cool to Avant Garde, Latin Jazz, and Jazz Fusion.

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Jazz Listening Software: Listening guide software is available for free download from the book website. The software offers real-time listening guides that navigate you through the pieces on the Jazz CD set.
'Witness to Jazz': A new series of essays featuring the images of reknowned photographer William Gottlieb. These pieces give students a sense of the jazz experience by conveying personal anecdotes about musicians like Dizzy Gillespie, Mary Lou Williams, and Louis Armstrong.
Listening-based approach: Jazz is designed primarily to serve an audience of students outside the music major. For that reason, the text pays specific attention to the appreciation and understanding of jazz as a listener, instead of as a historian or performer.
Student-focused: In keeping with the text's focus on the non-major, key terms and fundamentals are called out and discussed.
Detailed listening guides: To further improve the accessibility of the text, the listening guides include extensive detail so that novice listeners do not become confused or lost within a piece.
Summary, Suggestions for Further Listening, Additional Reading: Further support for the new student of jazz comes in the form of these three chapter closing elements. The Summary reviews the chapter material - names, styles, recordings - to provide a handy reference for study. The Suggestions for Further Listening and for Additional Reading offer a stepping off point from which students can expand their study of an individual, a style, or a period.
Free Audio CD: Each copy of the text comes with a complimentary audio CD featuring recordings that illustrate the variations that create jazz styles.

Synopsis:

This comprehensive introduction to the art of jazz aims to provides the reader with an accessible source of reference. The chronological coverage includes discussions of history that should help the reader make sense of the changes in style.

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