Jazz Styles : History and Analysis (8th Edition)

Jazz Styles : History and Analysis (8th Edition)

Editorial Reviews
The publisher, Prentice-Hall Humanities/Social Science
America's #1 best-selling introduction to jazz -- ideal for both non-musician and music major alike, Gridley's classic text details the basic musical principles, important styles, musical trends, history, innovations, and instruments of jazz. Easy-to-read, tightly organized, and filled with tips to help increase listening enjoyment, it focuses on what jazz is, how it is made, and how to listen to it. 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 CDs. Using a point-by-point differentiation of styles, it focuses on the inner workings of the music -- helping students learn to hear the substance and subtleties in the music itself. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of 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

Jazz Styles : History and Analysis (8th Edition),Mark C. Gridley,Prentice Hall,0131896644,General,Genres & Styles - Jazz,Jazz,Music,Music / General

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