Concise Guide to Jazz 7th Edition by Mark Gridley, ISBN-13: 978-0205937004

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Concise Guide to Jazz 7th Edition by Mark Gridley, ISBN-13: 978-0205937004

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• Publisher: ‎ Pearson; 7th edition (December 27, 2012)
• Language: ‎ English
• 320 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0205937004
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0205937004

An introduction to jazz and how to listen to it.

Written by active jazz musician and jazz historian Mark Gridley, the Concise Guide to Jazz was created in response to students and professors asking for a clear and accurate introductory jazz text. This brief text examines how jazz originated, how it is made, what to listen for, and the major style eras. By focusing on just over fifty historical figures, Concise Guide to Jazz, seventh edition allows students to understand a broad range of jazz styles without feeling overloaded. Concise Guide to Jazz focuses on the diversity of jazz styles and serves as a basis for further jazz exploration.

Upon completing this book, readers will be able to:

• Begin to appreciate how jazz is made
• Know how to extract the most depth of experience from listening to jazz
• Know who the most historically significant jazz musicians are
• Know why each significant musician is important
• Distinguish the main style eras

Table of Contents:

Contents

Prentice Hall Jazz Collection

Preface

THE BOOK AND ITS SUPPLEMENTS

DESIGNING YOUR COURSE

WHAT IS NEW TO THIS EDITION?

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Chapter 1 What is Jazz?

Chapter Outline

The World of Jazz

Defining Jazz

Improvisation

Swing Feeling

Studying Different Jazz Styles Historically

Summary

Further Resources

Chapter 2 How to Listen to Jazz

Chapter Outline

Open Your Ears

How Do Musicians Keep Their Place While Improvising?

Instrument Roles

Are Solo Improvisations Completely Original?

Summary

Key Terms

Further Resources

Chapter 3 The Origins of Jazz

Chapter Outline

Beginnings

New Orleans

The Blues

Brass Bands

Ragtime

Combining Influences

The Party Atmosphere

Summary

Key Terms

Further Resources

Chapter 4 Early Jazz

Chapter Outline

A New Style

Instruments In Early Jazz Bands

Early Jazz Innovators

Jelly Roll Morton

James P. Johnson

Fats Waller

Earl Hines

Louis Armstrong

Bix Beiderbecke

Vocal Blues

Popularity Of Early Jazz

Summary

Key Terms

Further Resources

Chapter 5 Swing

Chapter Outline

How Swing Differs From Early Jazz

Instruments In Swing Bands

Swing Era Soloists

Roy Eldridge

Coleman Hawkins

Swing Era Bandleaders

Kansas City Style

Count Basie

Lester Young

Benny Goodman

Duke Ellington

Ellington’s Compositions and Repertory

Vocalists

Billie Holiday

Ella Fitzgerald

Pianists

Art Tatum

Mary Lou Williams

The Popularity of Swing

Summary

Key Terms

Further Resources

Chapter 6 Bebop

Chapter Outline

The Birth of Bebop

How Bebop Differs from Swing Style

Charlie Parker

Dizzy Gillespie

Thelonious Monk

Bud Powell

Dexter Gordon

Stan Getz

Sarah Vaughan

The Popularity of Bebop

Summary

Key Terms

Further Resources

Chapter 7 Cool Jazz

Chapter Outline

Lennie Tristano

Lee Konitz

Birth of The Cool

Gerry Mulligan

Dave Brubeck

Stan Kenton

The Popularity of Cool Jazz

Summary

Key terms

Further Resources

Chapter 8 Hard Bop

Chapter Outline

Horace Silver

Miles Davis

The Classic Miles Davis Quintet

The Miles Davis Trumpet Style

Clifford Brown

Freddie Hubbard

Cannonball Adderley

Sonny Rollins

John Coltrane

Wes Montgomery

The Popularity of Hard Bop

Summary

Further Resources

Chapter 9 Avant-Garde of the 1960s and 70s

Chapter Outline

Ornette Coleman

Cecil Taylor

Modal Jazz

Bill Evans

Miles Davis Mid-’60s Quintet

The Popularity of Avant-Garde Jazz

Summary

Key Terms

Further Resources

Chapter 10 Fusion

Chapter Outline

Fusion

Distinguishing Jazz from Rock

How Did Jazz and Rock Merge?

Miles Davis and Fusion

Instrumentation

Performance Format

John McLaughlin

Weather Report

Herbie Hancock

Chick Corea

Smooth Jazz

Acid Jazz

Sampling

Looping

Overdubbing

Turntablists

Categories of Acid Jazz

Dominant Aspects of Acid Jazz

But is It Jazz?

The Appeal of Fusion

Summary

Key Terms

Further Resources

Chapter 11 1985 to the Present

Chapter Outline

Soul Saxes and “Contemporary Jazz”

Continuing Legacies

Fresh Approaches

Latin Jazz

Contemporary Big Bands

Celebrating the Past

Popular Appeal

Summary

Key Terms

Further Resources

Elements of Music

Beat

Tempo

Meter

Rhythm

Syncopation

Eighth Notes

Triplets

Sixteenth Notes

Dotted Eighth-Sixteenth Note Pattern

Tied Triplet Figure

Legato and Staccato

Swing Eighth-Note Pattern

Polyrhythm

Scales, Keys, Tonality, and Modality

Blue Notes

Chords and Chord Progressions

Chord Voicing

The Blues

The Thirty-Two-Bar A-A-B-A Tune

Listening for the Twelve-Bar Blues and Thirty-Two-Bar Forms

Detecting Other Forms

Modal Forms

The Effects of Form on Improvisation

Phrasing in Relation to Form

Tone Color

Music Buying Strategies

Minimizing Risk in Selecting Albums

Confusing Album Titles

About Reissues

Many Versions of the Same Tune

Rare Record Dealers, Importers, and Auctioneers

Mail Order In-Print Albums

A Small Basic Collection of Jazz Videos

Glossary

For Musicians

Chords and Chord Progressions

Twelve-Bar Blues Progressions

Modes

Modal Construction for “So What” and “Impressions”

Walking Bass Lines

Comping

Comping Figures for “Rhythm Changes”

Index

Media Reviews

Author Biography

Demonstration Compact Disc Contents

Dr. Mark C. Gridley is the author of Jazz Styles: History and Analysis, America’s most widely used introduction to jazz. It emerged from the History and Styles of Jazz course that he had developed at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Jazz Styles has been required for jazz history classes in more than 400 colleges and universities. The book has been translated into 5 foreign languages, and its influence and reference value led to Gridley’s listing in Who’s Who in America. A Cleveland-based jazz flutist-saxophonist-bandleader, Gridley has also conducted field research in Africa and the Caribbean. For his studies of jazz popularity, Gridley earned the Distinguished Achievement Award of the Educational Press Association of America. His articles on jazz styles and teaching jazz appreciation appear in the Grove Dictionaries of Music, Encyclopaedia Britannica, The Black Perspective in Music, Black Music Research Journal, The Musical Quarterly, The Instrumentalist, Current Musicology, College Music Symposium, Popular Music and Society, and Jazz Educator’s Journal. His research on perception and preferences in music and art has been published in several scientific journals.

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