Authors: John Szwed
ISBN-13: 9780786884964, ISBN-10: 0786884967
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Hyperion
Date Published: August 2000
Edition: 1 ED
Jazz 101 is a fascinating entrée into the world of jazz, for the beginner, novice, or jazz enthusiast. Szwed takes listeners on a tour of the varied and nonlinear history of jazz, exploring how it developed from an ethnic music to become America's most popular music and then part of the avant-garde in less than fifty years. Szwed's complete overview includes the major types of jazz and significant jazz musicians of the twentieth century; the roots of jazz, including its European and African influences; and recommended listening, plus appendices on jazz singers and record guides.
Infinitely readable and highly entertaining, Jazz 101 is a vital tool in understanding and appreciating jazz.
Preface | xi | |
Acknowledgments | xiii | |
Part 1 | ||
1 | Introduction | 3 |
2 | Recordings and Performance | 13 |
3 | Defining Jazz | 18 |
4 | Elements | 25 |
5 | Forms | 35 |
6 | Improvisation, Composition, and Arranging | 43 |
7 | Sources | 53 |
8 | Listening to Jazz | 61 |
9 | The Clubs | 67 |
Part 2 | ||
10 | Jazz Styles | 79 |
11 | The Beginnings of Jazz | 87 |
12 | 1900-1925: New Orleans | 96 |
13 | Beyond New Orleans | 116 |
14 | 1925-1940: Swing | 126 |
Part 3 | ||
15 | The 1940s: Revivalism | 151 |
16 | Five Who Helped Make a Revolution | 155 |
17 | Bebop | 160 |
18 | The 1950s: Cool Jazz | 175 |
19 | West Coast Jazz | 184 |
20 | Hard Bop, Soul Music, and Funk | 192 |
21 | The Organ Trio | 198 |
22 | Post-Bebop Improvisation, c. 1956 | 200 |
Part 4 | ||
23 | 1959: Multiple Revolutions | 209 |
24 | Free Jazz | 223 |
25 | Third Stream | 244 |
Part 5 | ||
26 | The 1970s | 251 |
27 | Jazz-Rock | 260 |
28 | The 1980s and 1990s | 269 |
29 | Europe | 278 |
30 | Acid Jazz, Drum 'n' Bass, Neo-Swing | 283 |
31 | What's Next? | 289 |
Appendix 1 | Jazz Singing | 293 |
Appendix 2 | A Guide to the Record Guides | 300 |
Appendix 3 | Jazz on the Internet | 306 |
Appendix 4 | Jazz at the Movies | 314 |
Appendix 5 | Selected Bibliography | 318 |
Appendix 6 | Records by Mail | 338 |
Appendix 7 | Current Reading | 341 |
Index | 343 |