Jazz: America’s Classical Music is a delightful introduction and guide to this complex and compelling music and to its rich history. In an engaging and conversational style, renowned jazz teacher Grover Sales tells of the lives and music of the greats—Ellington, Tatum, Hawkins, Coltrane, Parker, Hines, Goodman, Armstrong, and many others—with a mix of important facts, fascinating anecdotes, and brilliant interpretations. Illustrated with astonishing photographs of the artists in performance, Jazz: America’s Classical Music is a classic text, an ideal book for beginners and an inspiring one for serious students of the art of jazz.
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Grover Sales is an instructor in jazz studies at Stanford University and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He was publicity director of the Monterey Jazz Festival for its first seven years and did personal publicity for many of the jazz greats including Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, and Duke Ellington.
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This book is by far the best introduction to Jazz available. The text is clear and entertaining and the books on the "further reading" section are pretty well picked.
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This is an introduction to jazz intended for-but not limited to-those who cannot read a note of music and do not know the name of a single chord. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
keyboard influence, bebop drumming, white jazzmen, jazz press, authentic jazz, bebop era, free jazz, jazz community, jazz life, white imitations, big band swing, cutting contest Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, New Orleans, Louis Armstrong, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie, New York, Benny Goodman, Swing Era, Fats Waller, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Kansas City, Coleman Hawkins, John Lewis, Ornette Coleman, Count Basie, Cecil Taylor, Charlie Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Earl Hines, Art Tatum, Bill Evans, Billie Holiday, Bud Powell New!
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This is an introduction to jazz intended for-but not limited to-those who cannot read a note of music and do not know the name of a single chord. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
keyboard influence, bebop drumming, white jazzmen, jazz press, authentic jazz, bebop era, free jazz, jazz community, jazz life, white imitations, big band swing, cutting contest Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, New Orleans, Louis Armstrong, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie, New York, Benny Goodman, Swing Era, Fats Waller, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Kansas City, Coleman Hawkins, John Lewis, Ornette Coleman, Count Basie, Cecil Taylor, Charlie Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Earl Hines, Art Tatum, Bill Evans, Billie Holiday, Bud Powell New!
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