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