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Listening Guide CD Tracks | |
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Preface | |
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About the Authors | |
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Roots | |
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African American Music in the Nineteenth Century | |
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Sources of Musical Diversity | |
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The Preservation of African Traditions | |
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European Music in the Nineteenth Century | |
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Instrumentation, Form, and Harmony | |
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Written Versus Head Arrangements | |
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Early African American Music | |
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The Character of Early African American Music | |
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Christianity, the Ring Shout, Spirituals, and Work Songs | |
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Blue Notes and Syncopation | |
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The Blues Scale | |
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Minstrelsy | |
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Ragtime | |
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Scott Joplin | |
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Piano Rolls | |
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James Scott | |
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Joseph Lamb | |
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Artie Matthews | |
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Ragtime's Relationship to Jazz | |
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The Blues | |
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Pioneers of the Delta Blues | |
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Ma Rainey | |
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W. C. Handy | |
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Blues Form | |
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Bessie Smith | |
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Characteristics of Early Jazz Singing | |
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Boogie-woogie and Other Forms of the Blues | |
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Questions and Topics for Discussion | |
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Additional Listening Downloads | |
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Key Terms | |
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Early Jazz | |
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The Shift from Ragtime to Jazz | |
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New Orleans | |
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How Did Jazz Arise in New Orleans? | |
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Buddy Bolden | |
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The Evolution of the Jazz Band | |
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Early Jazz Performance Terms | |
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Early Jazz Instruments and Their Players | |
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Cornet | |
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Trombone | |
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Clarinet | |
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Bass/Tuba | |
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Guitar/Banjo | |
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Drums | |
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Piano | |
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The Exodus from New Orleans | |
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The Migration North | |
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The Advent of Jazz Recording | |
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The ODJB and the First Jazz Recording | |
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Sidney Bechet | |
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King Oliver and the Creole Jazz Band | |
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The Evolution of Improvisation | |
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Questions and Topics for Discussion | |
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Additional Listening Downloads | |
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Key Terms | |
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Morton, Armstrong, and Beiderbecke | |
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Jelly Roll Morton | |
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Jelly's Last Jam | |
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Louis Armstrong | |
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Armstrong's Classic Style | |
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Armstrong in Chicago and His Later Career | |
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Trombone Technique | |
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The Chicagoans and Bix Beiderbecke | |
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Questions and Topics for Discussion | |
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Additional Listening Downloads | |
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Key Terms | |
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1920s Jazz in New York and Europe | |
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Tin Pan Alley | |
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The Harlem Renaissance | |
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Harlem Stride Piano | |
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Eubie Blake | |
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James P. Johnson | |
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Fats Waller | |
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Art Tatum | |
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Paul Whiteman and George Gershwin | |
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Beginnings of the Big Bands | |
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Fletcher Henderson | |
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Duke Ellington's Early Career | |
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Bubber Miley and Tricky Sam Nanton | |
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Jazz in Europe | |
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Questions and Topics for Discussion | |
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Additional Listening Downloads | |
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Key Terms | |
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The Swing Era | |
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Overview: A Decade of Swing | |
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The Big Band in the Swing Era | |
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Instrumentation, Technique, and Arrangement | |
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Big-band Terms | |
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The Changing Role of the Rhythm Section | |
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Territory Bands | |
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The Original Blue Devils | |
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Kansas City | |
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Mary Lou Williams and the Clouds of Joy | |
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Count Basie | |
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Jazz Performance Terms | |
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Benny Goodman: King of Swing | |
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Race Relations in Early Jazz | |
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Ellington After the Cotton Club | |
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Building on the Band | |
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Changes for the Better | |
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The 1940s and Beyond | |
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Questions and Topics for Discussion | |
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Additional Listening Downloads | |
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Key Terms | |
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Swing-era Bands and Stylists | |
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Influential Big Bands of the Swing Era | |
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Cab Calloway | |
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Jimmie Lunceford | |
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Chick Webb | |
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The Casa Loma Orchestra | |
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McKinney's Cotton Pickers | |
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Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey | |
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Glenn Miller | |
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Artie Shaw | |
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World War II and the "All-girl" Bands | |
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Swing-era Stylists | |
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Benny Goodman | |
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Coleman Hawkins | |
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Lester Young | |
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Lester Young's Use of Formulas in "Shoe Shine Boy" | |
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Roy Eldridge | |
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Jack Teagarden | |
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Earl Hines | |
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Teddy Wilson | |
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Jimmy Blanton | |
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Jo Jones | |
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Gene Krupa | |
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Charlie Christian | |
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Benny Carter | |
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"All of Me": A Benny Carter Arrangement | |
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Billie Holiday | |
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Summary of the Features of Swing | |
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Questions and Topics for Discussion | |
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Additional Listening Downloads | |
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Key Terms | |
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The Bebop Era | |
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Revolution Versus Evolution | |
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Characteristics of the Bebop Style | |
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A Contrafact: Dizzy Gillespie's "Groovin' High" | |
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The Historical Origins of Bebop | |
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The Early Forties: Jamming at Minton's and Monroe's | |
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Big Bands in the Early 1940s | |
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The American Federation of Musicians Strike in 1942 | |
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Bebop Moves to Fifty-second Street | |
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The Architects of Bebop | |
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Charlie Parker | |
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Charlie Parker's Use of Formulas | |
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Dizzy Gillespie | |
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Latin Jazz | |
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Bud Powell | |
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Thelonious Monk | |
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Monk and Metric Displacement | |
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Other Bebop Artists | |
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J. J. Johnson | |
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Fats Navarro | |
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Dexter Gordon | |
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Bop-style Big Bands of the Late 1940s | |
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Woody Herman | |
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Swing Bands in the Bebop Era | |
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Claude Thornhill | |
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Questions and Topics for Discussion | |
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Additional Listening Downloads | |
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Key Terms | |
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The 1950s and New Jazz Substyles | |
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Jazz and the New Substyles | |
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Technological Advances in the 1950s | |
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Cool Stylists | |
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Miles Davis and Birth of the Cool | |
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Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker | |
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The Modern Jazz Quartet | |
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Dave Brubeck | |
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Stan Getz | |
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Lennie Tristano | |
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Jazz on the West Coast | |
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Third-stream Music | |
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Piano Stylists | |
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Vocalists | |
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Ella Fitzgerald | |
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Other Jazz Singers of the 1950s: Sarah Vaughan and Joe Williams | |
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Cool Singing in the 1950s: The Big-band Legacy | |
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Vocalese: Eddie Jefferson and Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross | |
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Frank Sinatra | |
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Hard Bop and Funky/Soul Jazz | |
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Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers | |
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Horace Silver | |
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Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet | |
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Max Roach and Modern Drumming | |
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Sonny Rollins | |
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Sonny Rollins and Improvisation | |
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Charles Mingus | |
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Miles Davis in the 1950s | |
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What Is Modal Jazz? | |
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Questions and Topics for Discussion | |
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Additional Listening Downloads | |
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Key Terms | |
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The 1960s Avant-garde | |
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Ornette Coleman and Free Jazz | |
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Ornette Coleman's Chamber and Orchestral Compositions | |
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John Coltrane | |
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Overview of Coltrane's Career | |
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Early Years | |
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Hard Bop with Miles Davis | |
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Coltrane's Classic Quartet | |
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Coltrane's Modal Compositions | |
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Coltrane and the Avant-garde | |
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Eric Dolphy | |
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Eric Dolphy and Booker Little | |
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Avant-garde Jazz and Black Activism | |
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Voices of Discontent | |
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Archie Shepp | |
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Albert Ayler | |
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Black Activism and the Avant-garde Today | |
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Cecil Taylor | |
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Taylor's Unit Structures | |
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Sun Ra | |
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Chicago: AACM, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and Anthony Braxton | |
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Black Artists Group and the World Saxophone Quartet | |
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Questions and Topics for Discussion | |
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Additional Listening Downloads | |
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Key Terms | |
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Mainstream Jazz in the 1960s | |
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Miles Davis in the 1960s | |
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Pianists | |
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Bill Evans | |
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Herbie Hancock | |
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Chick Corea | |
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Keith Jarrett and ECM Records | |
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ECM Records | |
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Funky/Soul Jazz | |
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Cannonball Adderley | |
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The Blues in Funky/Soul Jazz | |
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Jimmy Smith and Jazz Organists | |
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Guitarists | |
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The Hard Bop Legacy in the 1960s | |
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Blue Note Records | |
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Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard | |
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Wayne Shorter | |
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Joe Henderson | |
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Big Bands in the 1960s | |
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Other Blue Note Artists | |
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Questions and Topics for Discussion | |
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Additional Listening Downloads | |
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Key Terms | |
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Jazz-Rock, Jazz-Funk Fusion | |
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Synthesizers | |
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The Appeal of Rock and Funk | |
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The Fusion Music of Miles Davis | |
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Miles Davis in the Early 1970s | |
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Other Fusion Pioneers | |
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CTI Records | |
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Lifetime | |
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Mahavishnu Orchestra | |
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Herbie Hancock and Headhunters | |
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Herbie Hancock's Synthesizer Solo on "Chameleon" | |
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Chick Corea and Return to Forever | |
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Weather Report | |
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Pat Metheny | |
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Other Fusion Bands: The Brecker Brothers and Steps | |
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Questions and Topics for Discussion | |
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Additional Listening Downloads | |
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Key Terms | |
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Jazz Since the 1980s | |
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Classicism and the Jazz Repertory Movement | |
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Complete Jazz-recording Reissues | |
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Jazz Pedagogy | |
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Jazz Repertory | |
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Wynton Marsalis | |
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The Blakey Alumni | |
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Big Bands | |
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The Popular Connection | |
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Digital Technology | |
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Smooth Jazz | |
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Acid Jazz | |
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The Mass Market: Radio and the Internet | |
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Neo-swing | |
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The Avant-garde, Crossover, World Music, and Jazz to Come | |
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Jazz and Feminism | |
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Jazz Abroad | |
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Crossover, Postmodernism, and World Music | |
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Directions for Crossover Jazz | |
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The Future of Jazz | |
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Questions and Topics for Discussion | |
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Additional Listening Downloads | |
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Key Terms | |
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Jazz Basics | |
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Notes | |
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Glossary | |
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Selected Readings | |
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Selected Discography | |
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Selected Jazz DVDs and Videos | |
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Index | |
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Audio Primer CD Tracks | |