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Concise Guide to Jazz

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This book is for courses in jazz history, intro to jazz, evolution of jazz, jazz appreciation, or "Jazz in America."

This introductory text is the abridged version of Jazz Styles. Concise Guide to Jazz teaches students to appreciate jazz with its in-depth listening guides, 3 CD compilations of historic recordings, and a Demonstration CD that illustrates instrument sounds and how musicians make jazz.

Concise Guide to Jazz was developed in response to student and professor requests for an introductory text offering the clarity and accuracy of Jazz Styles with 1/2 the size, 1/40 the number of names and tune titles, and 1/3 the number of musician profiles, in just 11 chapters. Written by an active jazz musician and jazz historian, this brief introduction examines how jazz originated, how it is made, what to listen for, the major style eras, and the individual styles of 52 historic figures.

 

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This introductory text is the abridged version of Jazz Styles. Concise Guide to Jazz teaches students to appreciate jazz with its in-depth listening guides, 3 CD compilations of historic recordings, and a Demonstration CD that illustrates instrument sounds and how musicians make jazz.

 

Concise Guide to Jazz was developed in response to student and professor requests for an introductory text offering the clarity and accuracy of Jazz Styles with 1/2 the size, 1/40 the number of names and tune titles, and 1/3 the number of musician profiles, in just 11 chapters. Written by an active jazz musician and jazz historian, this brief introduction examines how jazz originated, how it is made, what to listen for, the major style eras, and the individual styles of 52 historic figures.

 

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How do you use musical recordings to enhance your student's learning experience?  Three different CD sets are available at a discount with this text.  

I.Prentice Hall Jazz Collection CD-12 historic recordings: packaged free with each book that is ordered with the 2CD Jazz Classics compilation

1 Jelly Roll Morton: "Wolverine Blues" (1927) 2 Benny Goodman and Charlie Christian: "Seven Come Eleven" (1939) 3 Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker: "Groovin' High" (1947) 4 Thelonious Monk: "Misterioso" (1948) 5 Woody Herman and Jimmy Giuffre: "Four Brothers" (1947) 6 Dave Brubeck: "Blue Rondo a la Turk" (1959) 7 Horace Silver: "Señor Blues" (1956) 8 Charles Mingus: "Fables of Faubus" (1959) 9 Ornette Coleman: "Civilization Day" (1971) 10 Herbie Hancock: "Chameleon" (1973) 11 Wynton Marsalis: "Express Crossing" (1993) 12 Dave Douglas: "Kidnapping Kissinger" (2001)

II. Jazz Classics 2 CD set-Includes 36 historical recordings from the big names in jazz history. This set helps students appreciate why listeners become so excited about their styles, and it spares students and instructors from searching for hard-to-locate, high-quality examples of each style.

Disc 1: Track 1 Original Dixieland Jazz Band: "Dixie Jazz Band One-Step" (1917)

2 King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band: "Alligator Hop" (1923) 3 Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines: "West End Blues" (1928) 4 Frankie Trumbauer and Bix Beiderbecke: "Riverboat Shuffle" (1927)  5 Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong: "Reckless Blues" (1925) 6 Roy Eldridge and Chu Berry: "Sittin' In" (1938) 7 Coleman Hawkins: "Body and Soul" (1939) 8 Count Basie and Lester Young: "Taxi War Dance" (1939) 9 Duke Ellington, Cootie Williams, and Barney Bigard: "Harlem Airshaft" (1940) 10 Johnny Hodges: "I've Got It Bad and That Ain't Good" (1961)  11 Billie Holiday and Lester Young: "Back in Your Own Back Yard" (1939) 12 Ella Fitzgerald: "Flying Home" (1945)  13 Art Tatum: "Tiger Rag" (1933)  14 Andy Kirk with Mary Lou Williams:  "Walkin' and Swingin"' (1936)  15 Charlie Parker and John Lewis: "Parker's Mood" (1948) 16  Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie: "Leap Frog" (1950) 17 Bud Powell: "Get Happy" (1950) 18 Dexter Gordon and Fats Navarro: "Index" (1947) 19 Stan Getz: "It Never Entered My Mind" (1957)  20 Stan Kenton and Lee Konitz: "Improvisation" (1953) 21 Lennie Tristano and Lee Konitz: "Subconscious-Lee" (1949)  22 Art Blakey, Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan, and Curtis Fuller: "The Egyptian" (1964)  23 Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane: "Two Bass Hit" (1958)

 

Disc 2: Track 1 Horace Silver, Michael Brecker, and Randy Brecker: "Gregory is Here" (1972) 2 Miles Davis, Bill Evans, and John Coltrane: "Blue in Green" (1959)  3 J. J. Johnson, Clifford Brown, and Jimmy Heath: "Get Happy" (1953) 4 Wes Montgomery: "Mr. Walker" (1960)  5 Ornette Coleman: "Dee-Dee" excerpt (1965)  6 John Coltrane: "Your Lady" (1963)  7 John Coltrane and Rashied Ali: "Mars" excerpt  (1967)  8 Bill Evans, Scott LaFaro, and Paul Motian: "Solar" (1961)  9 Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, and Herbie Hancock: "Prince of Darkness" (1967) 10 Weather Report: "Birdland" (1977)  11 Chick Corea: "Captain Marvel" (1972) 12 Keith Jarrett and Jan Garbarek: "The Wind-Up" (1974) 13 Carla Bley: "Baseball" (1999)

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III.Demonstration CD- 159 narrated examples of instrument sounds and strategies for jazz combo improvisation.

Supplies students with demonstrations and narrative explaining twelve-bar blues, A-A-B-A form, ride rhythms, walking bass, funk bass, comping, boogie-woogie, trumpet vs. fluegelhorn, clarinet vs. soprano sax vs. alto sax vs. tenor sax vs. baritone sax, Harmon mute, plunger mute, chords, chord changes, blue notes, trombone, vibraphone, and flute.

 

How do you teach your students to listen to jazz?

·         Chapter summaries-Contain quick-reference numbered statements.

o        Highlights the most important points of each chapter.

·         36 in-depth Listening Guides -Contain detailed, easy-to-follow, non-technical narratives and timed structural analyses for the events in each selection found on the accompanying Jazz Classics CDs.

o        Alerts students to layers of activity in the music that become more evident on repeated listening, and emphasizes effective strategies to get the most enjoyment out of listening to jazz.

·         Album Buying Strategies.

o        Assembles strategies for selecting and locating the best CDs and out-of-print LPs.

·         32- page Elements of Music appendix.

o        Introduces, explains, and illustrates basic musical terms and concepts (e.g., tempo, beat, rhythm, scale, blue notes, chord progression, song forms, tone color) for the non-musician reader.

·         Photos of instruments.

o        Provides students with illustrations to help identify sources for the sounds so they will know what they see when attending concerts and viewing videos.

Informative photo captions

put the giants in perspective at a glance

             Appendix for musicians-includes chord changes; modes; and bass lines.

 

Which jazz legends do you cover in your course?

·         Covers 52 of the most significant players-1. Jelly Roll Morton 2. James P. Johnson 3. Fats Waller 4. Earl Hines 5. Louis Armstrong 6. Bix Beiderbecke 7. Roy Eldridge 8. Coleman Hawkins 9. Count Basie 10. Lester Young      11. Billie Holiday 12. Ella Fitzgerald 13. Art Tatum 14. Benny Goodman   15. Duke Ellington 16. Charlie Parker 17. Dizzy Gillespie 18. Thelonious Monk 19. Bud Powell 20. Dexter Gordon 21. Sarah Vaughan 22. Stan Getz 23. Lennie Tristano 24. Lee Konitz 25. Gerry Mulligan 26. Dave Brubeck  27. Stan Kenton 28. Horace Silver 29. Miles Davis 30. Clifford Brown       31. Freddie Hubbard 32. Wes Montgomery 33. Cannonball Adderley         34. Sonny Rollins 35. John Coltrane 36. Ornette Coleman 37. Cecil Taylor 38. Bill Evans 39. John McLaughlin 40. Herbie Hancock 41. Chick Corea   42. David Sanborn 43. Michael Brecker 44. Joe Henderson 45. Wayne Shorter 46. John Zorn 46. Dave Douglas 47. Tito Puente 48. Wynton Marsalis 49. Keith Jarrett 50 Mary Lou Williams 51 Carla Bley 52 Maria Schneider

o        Describes their music and significance.

 

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