Where's The Melody? A Listener's Introduction To Jazz

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Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Book Synopsis Where's The Melody? A Listener's Introduction To Jazz by : Martin Williams

Download or read book Where's The Melody? A Listener's Introduction To Jazz written by Martin Williams and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1983-03-21 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Williams has probably introduced more people to jazz than anyone alive, as editor of "The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz", editor of "The Jazz Masters Series", and author of this superb beginner's guide to jazz. The book addresses the basic questions -- what jazz players do to a popular melody when they improvise and how best to hear and appreciate it. With chapters on the blues, the art of Billie Holiday, Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck, and notes on live jazz -- close-ups of Thelonious Monk and Big Joe Turner in performance -- and suggestions for a basic library of jazz records, this book will aid the perplexed and reward the already knowledgeable. -- From publisher's description.

Jazz

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136776028
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Book Synopsis Jazz by : Eddie S. Meadows

Download or read book Jazz written by Eddie S. Meadows and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jazz: Research and Pedagogy is the third edition of an annotated bibliography to books, recordings, videos, and websites in the field of jazz. Since the publication of the 2nd edition in 1995, the quantity and quality of books on jazz research, performance, and teaching materials have increased. Although the 1995 book was the most comprehensive annotated jazz bibliography published to that date, several books on research, performance, and teaching materials were omitted. In addition, given the proliferation of new books in all jazz areas since 1995, the need for a new, comprehensive, and annotated reference book on jazz is apparent. Multiply indexed, this book will serve as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars in sorting through the massive amount of new material that has appeared in the field over the last decade.

Thinking in Jazz

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226044521
Total Pages : 904 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Book Synopsis Thinking in Jazz by : Paul F. Berliner

Download or read book Thinking in Jazz written by Paul F. Berliner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-10-05 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark in jazz studies, Thinking in Jazz reveals as never before how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. Chronicling leading musicians from their first encounters with jazz to the development of a unique improvisatory voice, Paul Berliner documents the lifetime of preparation that lies behind the skilled improviser's every idea. The product of more than fifteen years of immersion in the jazz world, Thinking in Jazz combines participant observation with detailed musicological analysis, the author's experience as a jazz trumpeter, interpretations of published material by scholars and performers, and, above all, original data from interviews with more than fifty professional musicians: bassists George Duvivier and Rufus Reid; drummers Max Roach, Ronald Shannon Jackson, and Akira Tana; guitarist Emily Remler; pianists Tommy Flanagan and Barry Harris; saxophonists Lou Donaldson, Lee Konitz, and James Moody; trombonist Curtis Fuller; trumpeters Doc Cheatham, Art Farmer, Wynton Marsalis, and Red Rodney; vocalists Carmen Lundy and Vea Williams; and others. Together, the interviews provide insight into the production of jazz by great artists like Betty Carter, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, and Charlie Parker. Thinking in Jazz overflows with musical examples from the 1920s to the present, including original transcriptions (keyed to commercial recordings) of collective improvisations by Miles Davis's and John Coltrane's groups. These transcriptions provide additional insight into the structure and creativity of jazz improvisation and represent a remarkable resource for jazz musicians as well as students and educators. Berliner explores the alternative ways—aural, visual, kinetic, verbal, emotional, theoretical, associative—in which these performers conceptualize their music and describes the delicate interplay of soloist and ensemble in collective improvisation. Berliner's skillful integration of data concerning musical development, the rigorous practice and thought artists devote to jazz outside of performance, and the complexities of composing in the moment leads to a new understanding of jazz improvisation as a language, an aesthetic, and a tradition. This unprecedented journey to the heart of the jazz tradition will fascinate and enlighten musicians, musicologists, and jazz fans alike.

The Cambridge Companion to Jazz

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521663885
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (638 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Jazz by : Mervyn Cooke

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Jazz written by Mervyn Cooke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vibrant world of jazz may be viewed from many perspectives, from social and cultural history to music analysis, from economics to ethnography. It is challenging and exciting territory. This volume of nineteen specially commissioned essays provides informed and accessible guidance to the challenge, offering the reader a range of expert views on the character, history and uses of jazz. The book starts by considering what kind of identity jazz has acquired and how, and goes on to discuss the crucial practices that define jazz and to examine some specific moments of historical change and some important issues for jazz study. Finally, it looks at a set of perspectives that illustrate different 'takes' on jazz - ways in which jazz has been valued and represented.

The Stories of Jazz

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Publisher : Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
ISBN 13 : 3990128957
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Stories of Jazz by : Mario Dunkel

Download or read book The Stories of Jazz written by Mario Dunkel and published by Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag. This book was released on 2021-09-22 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Orleans jazz, Dixieland, Chicago jazz, swing, bebop, cool jazz, hard bop, and free jazz: up until today, the history of jazz is told as a "tradition" consisting of fixed components including a succession of jazz styles. How did this construction of music history emerge? What were the alternative perspectives? And why did the narrative of a fixed tradition catch on? In this study, Mario Dunkel examines narratives of jazz history from the beginnings of jazz until the late 1950s. According to Dunkel, the jazz tradition is simultaneously an attempt to approach historical reality and the product of competition between different narratives and cultural myths. From the middlebrow culture of the 1920s to the New Deal, the African American civil rights movement and the role of the U.S. in the Cold War, Dunkel shows in detail how the jazz tradition, as a global narrative of the twentieth century, is intertwined with greater social and cultural developments.

Representing Jazz

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822315940
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (159 download)

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Book Synopsis Representing Jazz by : Krin Gabbard

Download or read book Representing Jazz written by Krin Gabbard and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional jazz studies have tended to see jazz in purely musical terms, as a series of changes in rhythm, tonality, and harmony, or as a parade of great players. But jazz has also entered the cultural mix through its significant impact on novelists, filmmakers, dancers, painters, biographers, and photographers. Representing Jazz explores the "other" history of jazz created by these artists, a history that tells us as much about the meaning of the music as do the many books that narrate the lives of musicians or describe their recordings. Krin Gabbard has gathered essays by distinguished writers from a variety of fields. They provide engaging analyses of films such as Round Midnight, Bird, Mo' Better Blues, Cabin in the Sky, and Jammin' the Blues; the writings of Eudora Welty and Dorothy Baker; the careers of the great lindy hoppers of the 1930s and 1940s; Mura Dehn's extraordinary documentary on jazz dance; the jazz photography of William Claxton; painters of the New York School; the traditions of jazz autobiography; and the art of "vocalese." The contributors to this volume assess the influence of extramusical sources on our knowledge of jazz and suggest that the living contexts of the music must be considered if a more sophisticated jazz scholarship is ever to evolve. Transcending the familiar patterns of jazz history and criticism, Representing Jazz looks at how the music actually has been heard and felt at different levels of American culture. With its companion anthology, Jazz Among the Discourses, this volume will enrich and transform the literature of jazz studies. Its provocative essays will interest both aficionados and potential jazz fans. Contributors. Karen Backstein, Leland H. Chambers, Robert P. Crease, Krin Gabbard, Frederick Garber, Barry K. Grant, Mona Hadler, Christopher Harlos, Michael Jarrett, Adam Knee, Arthur Knight, James Naremore

Duke Ellington, Jazz Composer

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300055078
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (55 download)

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Book Synopsis Duke Ellington, Jazz Composer by : Ken Rattenbury

Download or read book Duke Ellington, Jazz Composer written by Ken Rattenbury and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American composer, pianist and orchestra leader Duke Ellington was the first genuine jazz composer of truly international status. In this book Ken Rattenbury offers a thorough musical analysis of Ellington's works, assessing the extent to which Ellington drew on the black music traditions of blues and ragtime and the music of Tin Pan Alley, and examining how he integrated black folk music practices with elements of European art music. Rattenbury investigate's Ellington's methods of composition, focusing on works written, performed and recorded between 1939 and 1941, years that witnessed the full flowering of Ellington's genius. He also discusses the criteria Ellington used to select his musicians.

Lester Young

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472089222
Total Pages : 180 pages
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Book Synopsis Lester Young by : Lewis Porter

Download or read book Lester Young written by Lewis Porter and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the musical biography of jazz tenor saxophonist Lester Young, with a revised discography

Jazz Musicians, 1945 to the Present

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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786485574
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Jazz Musicians, 1945 to the Present written by David Dicaire and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its very beginnings, the nature of jazz has been to reinvent itself. As the musical genre evolved from its roots--blues, European music, Voodoo ceremonies, and brass bands that played at funerals, parades and celebrations--the sound reflected the tenor of the times, from the citified strains of the Roaring '20s to the Big Band swing of pre-World War II to the bop revolution that grew out of the minimalist sound the war forced upon the art form. That the music continued to develop and evolve is a tribute to the power and creativity of its musicians. Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Sarah Vaughan, Art Blakey, Dave Brubeck, Sun Ra, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Diana Krall, Archie Shepp, Chick Corea, Branford Marsalis, Larry Coryell, and Kenny Kirkland are just some of the jazz greats profiled here. The five major periods of jazz--the bop revolution, hard bop and cool jazz, the avant-garde, fusion, and contemporary--form the basis for the sections in this reference work, with a brief history of each period provided. The artists who were integral to the evolution of each period are then profiled. Each biographical entry focuses on the artist's life and his or her influence on jazz and on music as a whole. A complete discography for each musician is also provided.

Jazz Research and Performance Materials

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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815303732
Total Pages : 854 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (37 download)

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Book Synopsis Jazz Research and Performance Materials by : Eddie S. Meadows

Download or read book Jazz Research and Performance Materials written by Eddie S. Meadows and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Jazzing

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252098315
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Jazzing by : Thomas H. Greenland

Download or read book Jazzing written by Thomas H. Greenland and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we speak about jazz? In this provocative study based on the author's deep immersion in the New York City jazz scene, Tom Greenland turns from the usual emphasis on artists and their music to focus on non-performing participants, describing them as active performers in their own right who witness and thus collaborate in a happening made one-of-a-kind by improvisation, mood, and moment. Jazzing shines a spotlight on the constituency of proprietors, booking agents, photographers, critics, publicists, painters, amateur musicians, fans, friends, and tourists that makes up New York City's contemporary jazz scene. Drawn from deep ethnographic research, interviews, and long term participant observation, Jazzing charts the ways New York's distinctive physical and social-cultural environment affects and is affected by jazz. Throughout, Greenland offers a passionate argument in favor of a radically inclusive conception of music-making, one in which individuals collectively improvise across social contexts to co-create community and musical meaning. An odyssey through the clubs and other performance spaces on and off the beaten track, Jazzing is an insider's view of a vibrant urban art world.

The Duke Ellington Reader

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195093919
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (939 download)

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Download or read book The Duke Ellington Reader written by Mark Tucker and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of writings by and about Duke Ellington and his place in jazz history.

The Thelonious Monk Reader

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199761477
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Thelonious Monk Reader written by Rob van der Bliek and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-02-22 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the major jazz artists, Thelonious Monk was one of the most original musical thinkers--nonconformist, idiosyncratic, imaginative, eccentric--in a word, unique. In The Thelonious Monk Reader, Rob van der Bliek has brought together some of the most revealing pieces ever written on Monk, providing a full portrait of the musician and his impact on the jazz world. Here is a wealth of information that was previously scattered and difficult to locate, including a wide range of articles, profiles, reviews, interviews, liner notes, and music analyses. Ranging in date from 1947 to 1999, these 39 pieces feature the work of some of our best jazz critics, including Leonard Feather, Ira Gitler, Nat Hentoff, Andre Hodeir, Gunther Schuller, Martin Williams, and many others. The book spans Monk's childhood and early recordings with Blue Note and Prestige, his Riverside period and the critical recognition that followed the release of Brilliant Corners, and his fame and fortune during his Columbia years. Readers will find colorful descriptions of Monk's eccentric lifestyle as well as thoughtful commentary on his unorthodox piano technique, which was marked by off-center accents and idiosyncratic voicings, broken rhythms, alternately dense and stripped down chords, and creative use of silence. Rob van der Bliek also provides a general introduction and brief introductions to each piece as well as critical annotations that place the work in context. Controversial, often contradictory, and always engaging, these readings offer a complete view of the man, his music, and his time. The only such book on Monk's life and work, this volume will be "must reading" for jazz fans and scholars, musicians, music lovers, and readers with an interest in African-American culture.

Popular Music

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317223446
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Popular Music written by Roman Iwaschkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive guide to popular music literature, first published in 1986. Its main focus is on American and British works, but it includes significant works from other countries, making it truly international in scope.

Checklist of Writings on American Music, 1640-1992

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Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810831339
Total Pages : 258 pages
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Book Synopsis Checklist of Writings on American Music, 1640-1992 by : Guy A. Marco

Download or read book Checklist of Writings on American Music, 1640-1992 written by Guy A. Marco and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cumulative index to all three volumes of Literature of American Music in Books and Folk Music Collections.

Toni Morrison's Developing Class Consciousness

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Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781575910680
Total Pages : 260 pages
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Book Synopsis Toni Morrison's Developing Class Consciousness by : Doreatha D. Mbalia

Download or read book Toni Morrison's Developing Class Consciousness written by Doreatha D. Mbalia and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toni Morrison scholars as well as those interested in the creative process will be excited about a new feature that appears in this second edition of this book: a sampling of Toni Morrison's creative process. In Part Two of this critical work, the author spotlights some of the autobiographical kernels that appear in each of Morrison's novels. Part One offers a comprehensive study of Morrison's novels, demonstrating that each one is a thematic and structural offshoot of the preceding one, evidencing a pattern of growth in Morrison's consciousness of the exploitation and oppression of all people of African descent and of her commitment to struggle for a solution. The Bluest Eye investigates the effects of racism on African female children. Sula explores avenues of self-fulfillment, but in the process ignores the collective that nurtures her. Song of Solomon reveals Morrison's increased awareness of the impact of historical and current events on the nation-class oppression of African people. Tar Baby offers evidence of Morrison's awareness that capitalism is the primary enemy of African people. Beloved proposes the only viable solution if African people are to be truly liberated: coll

Your Jazz Collection

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
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Download or read book Your Jazz Collection written by Derek Langridge and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: