Jazz Styles

Preface

Acknowledgements

1. INTRODUCTION

2. WHAT IS JAZZ?

3. APPRECIATING JAZZ IMRPOVISATION

4. ORIGINS OF JAZZ

5. EARLY JAZZ: COMBO JAZZ PRIOR TO THE MIDDLE 1930s

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

7. DUKE ELLINGTON

8 THE COUNT BASIE BANDS

9. BOP: THE EARLY 1940s TO THE EARLY 1950s

10. COOL JAZZ

11. HARD BOP

12. MILES DAVIS, HIS GROUPS & SIDEMEN

13. JOHN COLTRANE

14. 1960s AND 1970s AVANTE-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

APPENDIX A: BREIF 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 TRANSSCRIPTIONS

APPENDIX H: FOR MUSICIANS

INDEX

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