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Introducing Jazz | |
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Listening to Jazz | |
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The Birth of Jazz | |
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Early Jazz | |
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The Swing Era | |
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Bebop and Modern Jazz | |
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Mainstream Jazz | |
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Free and Exploratory Jazz | |
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Fusion | |
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Latin Jazz | |
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Jazz Worldwide | |
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Jazz Forward | |
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Introducing Jazz | |
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Take Note | |
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ISSUES: Jazz as an "American" Art Form | |
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STYLE/TECHNIQUE: Listening with Untrained Ears | |
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First Listening | |
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Listening with Untrained Ears | |
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Defining Jazz: A Beginning | |
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Improvisation in Jazz | |
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Other Dimensions of Jazz | |
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Jazz and Society | |
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Jazz and the Arts | |
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Social Life and Issues | |
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Jazz and Historic Trends | |
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National Identity | |
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Racial Identity | |
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ISSUES: Jazz as African-American Music | |
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Cultural Significance | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Key Terms and Key People | |
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Listening to Jazz | |
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Take Note | |
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Listening Focus: Melody | |
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Listening Tips for Jazz Melody | |
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Listening Focus: Harmony | |
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Listening Tips for Jazz Harmony | |
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Listening Focus: Rhythm | |
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Listening Tips for Jazz Rhythm | |
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Listening Focus: Form and Structure | |
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Chorus Form | |
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Compound Form | |
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Listening Tips for Jazz Form and Structure | |
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Listening Focus: Color and Texture | |
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Listening Tips for Jazz Color and Texture | |
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Listening Focus: Voice, Feel, and Expression | |
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Listening Tips for Voice, Feel, and Expression | |
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Listening Focus: Improvisation | |
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Listening Tips for Jazz Improvisation | |
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Listening Focus: Style and Experimentation | |
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Listening Tips for Style and Experimentation | |
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Musicians' Roles, Individual and Collective | |
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STYLE/TECHNIQUE: The Team Sport of Jazz | |
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Listening Tips for Musicians' Interaction | |
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Jazz as an Art Form | |
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STYLE/TECHNIQUE: Standard Practices in Jazz | |
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Listening Tips Wrap-Up | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Key Terms and Key People | |
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The Birth of Jazz | |
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Take Note | |
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Timeline | |
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Old-World Roots | |
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African Influences | |
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LISTENING FOCUS: Simpa (Fire) | |
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European Influences | |
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New Orleans | |
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New Orleans' Six Jazz-Creating Conditions | |
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Listening Guide: In Gloryland | |
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History/Culture: Parading with a Brass Band | |
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Musical Antecedents | |
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The Blues | |
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LISTENING FOCUS: Old John Henry Died on the Mountain | |
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LISTENING FOCUS: Boll Weevil | |
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JAZZ CLASSICS: St. Louis Blues | |
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Ragging and Ragtime | |
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Listening Guide: Maple Leaf Rag | |
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ISSUES : The Ragtime Wars | |
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Jazz: An Improvisational Music for Dancing | |
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New Orleans Notables | |
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LISTENING FOCUS: Livery Stable Blues , | |
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New Orleans Style and "Jass" Variants | |
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JAZZ CLASSICS: Tiger Rag | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Key Terms and Key People | |
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Early Jazz | |
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Take Note | |
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Timeline | |
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Chicago | |
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LISTENING FOCUS: Dipper Mouth Blues | |
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Listening Guide: West End Blues | |
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Listening Guide: Black Bottom Stomp | |
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Kansas City | |
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New York | |
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White Bands | |
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JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz and Classical Music: The First Half of the 20<sup>th</sup> Century | |
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Harlem and the Cotton Club | |
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Listening Guide: Black and Tan Fantasy | |
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History/Culture: The Cotton Club | |
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JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz and Tap | |
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Vocalists | |
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Jazz Arrangers of the '20s | |
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Regional Bands | |
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ISSUES: Jazz: Musical Virtue or Vice? | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Key Terms and Key People | |
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The Swing Era | |
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Take Note | |
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Timeline | |
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Jazz: A Mass Attraction | |
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JAZZ AND THE ARTS: The Swing Dances | |
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STYLE/TECHNIQUE: Big Band, Big Sound | |
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The Great Black Bands | |
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History/Culture: Stompin' at the Savoy | |
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Listening Guide: Ko-Ko | |
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Listening Guide: One O'Clock Jump | |
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The Great White Bands | |
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Listening Guide: Honeysuckle Rose | |
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Big-Band Care and Maintenance | |
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All-Women Bands | |
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Shapers of the Sound | |
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STYLE/TECHNIQUE: What Does an Arranger Do? | |
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Anatomy of an Arrangement | |
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Small Groups and Solo Artists | |
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Solo Instrumentalists | |
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LISTENING FOCUS: Body and Soul | |
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Singers | |
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History/Culture: John Hammond: Talent Scout, Jazz Catalyst | |
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History/Culture: The New Orleans Revival | |
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The End of the Swing Era | |
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STYLE/TECHNIQUE: Boogie-Woogie | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Key Terms and Key People | |
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Bebop and Modern Jazz | |
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Take Note | |
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Timeline | |
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The Postwar Jazz Scene | |
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History/Culture: After Hours at Minton's | |
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Parker, Gillespie, and the Birth of Bebop | |
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Listening Guide: Shaw 'Nuff | |
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ISSUES: Boppers Versus Moldy Figs | |
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Listening Guide: Embraceable You, Take A | |
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STYLE/TECHNIQUE: Old Chords, New Melodies | |
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History/Culture: Swing Street | |
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HISTORY/CULTURE:: Big Bands in the Modern Era | |
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History/Culture: Norman Granz and Jazz at the Philharmonic | |
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ISSUES: The Jazz Musician as Outsider | |
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Piano Modernists | |
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Listening Guide: Misterioso | |
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JAZZ CLASSICS: 'Round Midnight | |
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Cool Jazz and the West Coast Scene | |
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Listening Guide: Boplicity | |
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JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz and Film | |
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Beyond the Cool | |
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JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz Poetry | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Key Terms and Key People | |
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Mainstream Jazz | |
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Take Note | |
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Timeline | |
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Setting the Stage | |
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Miles Ahead | |
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The Birth of Hard Bop | |
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Listening Guide: The Preacher | |
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History/Culture: New York Nights | |
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West-Coast Bop | |
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STYLE/TECHNIQUE: Breaks and Fours | |
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Three Tenor Torchbearers: Gordon, Rollins, and Coltrane | |
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Listening Guide: Giant Steps | |
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TWO TAKES ON THE PIANO | |
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Listening Guide: Blue Rondo a la Turk | |
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Soul Jazz | |
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ISSUES: Jazz and Religion | |
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History/Culture: Down Beat and the Jazz Magazines | |
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History/Culture: Jazz Festivals | |
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Continuing Traditions | |
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JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz on Television | |
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Vocalists of the Mainstream Era | |
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JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz and Fiction | |
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Alternate Currents | |
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JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz and Visual Art | |
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Listening Guide: So What | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Key Terms and Key People | |
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Free and Exploratory Jazz | |
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Take Note | |
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Timeline | |
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1959 A Turning Point in Jazz History | |
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ISSUES: Jazz: The Sound of Freedom | |
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Free-Jazz Ancestors | |
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Free-Jazz Innovations | |
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Sonic Freedom | |
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Harmonic Freedom | |
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Formal Freedom | |
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Rhythmic Freedom | |
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STYLE/TECHNIQUE: How to Listen to Free Jazz | |
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Free-Jazz Innovators | |
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Coleman, Taylor, and Coltrane | |
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Listening Guide: Ramblin' | |
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History/Culture: The Loft Scene | |
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Jazz Underground | |
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Other Free Instrumentalists | |
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Listening Guide: Ghosts (First Variation) | |
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Listening Guide: Bush Magic | |
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History/Culture: Jazz Cooperatives | |
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Free Spaces | |
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JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz on Radio | |
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Experimental Composers | |
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JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz and Classical Music: The Second Half of the Twentieth Century | |
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ISSUES: The Growing Role of Women in Jazz | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Key Terms and Key People | |
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Fusion | |
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Take Note | |
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Timeline | |
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Defining Fusion Jazz | |
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Foreshadowing Fusion | |
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Early Mixes | |
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Rock, Funk, and the Climate for Fusion | |
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Early Fusions | |
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Miles Davis: Fusion Pioneer | |
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Listening Guide: Miles Runs the Voodoo Down (single version) | |
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Fusion in the Early '70s | |
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STYLE/DEVELOPMENT: Offspring of Bitches Brew | |
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Lifetime | |
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Mahavishnu Orchestra | |
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Weather Report | |
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Listening Guide: Birdland | |
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Return to Forever | |
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Headhunters | |
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Listening Guide: Watermelon Man | |
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History/Culture: The Soul-Funk Connection | |
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R&B Fusion | |
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Polishing and Popularizing Fusion | |
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ISSUES: Jazz Versus Fusion | |
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Later Fusions | |
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Listening Guide: Bright Size Life | |
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Conclusino | |
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History/Culture: Hip-Hop and Jazz | |
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JAZZ CLASSICS: Post-Mainstream Jazz Standards | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Key Terms and Key People | |
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Latin Jazz | |
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