Jazz Styles

CONTENTS

 

Preface                                                                     

Acknowledgements                                                    

 

1          INTRODUCTION                                                                 

 

PART I           BASICS OF JAZZ

 

2          WHAT IS JAZZ?                                                                   

3          APPRECIATING JAZZ IMPROVISATION                           

 

PART II          PREMODERN JAZZ

 

4          ORIGINS OF JAZZ                                                              

5          EARLY JAZZ: COMBO JAZZ PRIOR TO THE MIDDLE

6          SWING:  THE EARLY 1930s TO THE LATE 1940s 

7          DUKE ELLINGTON                                                             

8          THE COUNT BASIE BANDS                                               

 

PART III        MODERN JAZZ:  THE EARLY 1940s to the EARLY 1960s

 

9          BOP:  THE EARLY 1940s to the EARLY 1950s                    

10        COOL JAZZ                                                                          

11        HARD BOP                                                                            

12        MILES DAVIS, HIS GROUPS & SIDEMEN            

13        JOHN COLTRANE                                                               

 

PART IV        MODERN JAZZ:  THE EARLY 1960s to the PRESENT

 

14        1960s and 1970s AVANT-GARDE and “FREE” JAZZ          

15        BILL EVANS, HERBIE HANCOCK, CHICK COREA, and KEITH JARRETT                                                

16        JAZZ-ROCK FUSION                                                          

17        1980 to the PRESENT                                                

18        OTHER VOICES                                                                   

 

APPENDICES

 

Appendix A:     Brief Outline of Jazz Styles                               

Appendix B:     Elements of Music                                            

Appendix C:     Strategies for Buying Recorded Music             

Appendix D:     A Small Basic Collection of Jazz Videos           

Appendix E:     Glossary                                                          

Appendix F:     Supplementary Reading                                   

Appendix G:     Sources for Solo Transcriptions                       

Appendix H:     For Musicians                                                  

 

Index