Jazz: Essential Listening
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ISBN: 0393935639 / Publisher: W W Norton & Company, December 2010
Jazz: Essential Listening
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For use with the music collection The Norton Jazz Recordings; Essential Listening, available separately on 2 CDs or as an Mp3 DVD, this music history and appreciation textbook presents a comprehensive survey of over one hundred years of American jazz. Beginning with a discussion of instruments and jazz form and fundamentals, the work proceeds chronologically from folk traditions of the late nineteenth-century, through New York in the 1920s, the swing and big band eras and into modern, avant-garde and fusion styles. All of the traditional greats are covered, including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. "Listening guide" sections in the work point out key jazz concepts from specific musical passages. The work includes numerous photographs, sidebars and summary sections. Deveaux teaches music at the University of Virginia and Giddins is a jazz critic and professor at City University of New York. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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