The most comprehensive interpretive history of jazz available in one volume, this book contains a survey of the past and current styles, elements, instruments, musicians, singers, and big bands of jazz.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German
Original Language: German
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Classic introduction to jazz,
By Ricard Giner (cootie@cootiesjazz.com) (Brighton, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Jazz Book: From Ragtime to Fusion and Beyond (Paperback)
Joachim Berendt first published this work in German in 1953. Many editions and revisions later, this has become one of the cornerstones of jazz historical criticism. It has been translated into many languages, reflecting the universal appeal of the work. A clandestine Russian edition appeared in the former Soviet Union, and in Japan alone it has been edited three times. The Jazz Book is possibly the clearest, most didactic work of its kind. It's the first book I read about jazz and it made me appreciate the whole picture. It helped me to make the connections between musicians, works, instruments, ideas, styles, movements and influences. It's an invaluable introduction to jazz; it is written with great affection for the music, and translated very elegantly. It appears to have "fallen off" most current jazz reading lists, perhaps because there are newer, trendier writers addressing a modern, demanding, informed audience. But it's still a starting point that knows no rival.
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Jazz has always been the concern of a minority-always. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
postmodern jazz, eighties jazz, misc instr, free funk, modern concert music, archaic jazz, jazz classicism, free tonality, most beautiful recordings, jazz sonority, combo recordings, saxophone groups, disc split, free jazz, saxophone quartet, saxophone ensembles, new bebop, new melodic lines, duo recordings, jazz phrasing, jazz feeling, minimal music, conventional jazz, tenor men, fusion scene Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Orleans, Miles Davis, New York, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Young, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Count Basie, David Murray, Art Blakey, United States, Wynton Marsalis, Benny Goodman, Charles Mingus, Max Roach, Coleman Hawkins, Fletcher Henderson, Tony Williams, Bessie Smith, Sonny Rollins, Chick Corea, Gil Evans New!
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postmodern jazz, eighties jazz, misc instr, free funk, modern concert music, archaic jazz, jazz classicism, free tonality, most beautiful recordings, jazz sonority, combo recordings, saxophone groups, disc split, free jazz, saxophone quartet, saxophone ensembles, new bebop, new melodic lines, duo recordings, jazz phrasing, jazz feeling, minimal music, conventional jazz, tenor men, fusion scene Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Orleans, Miles Davis, New York, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Young, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Count Basie, David Murray, Art Blakey, United States, Wynton Marsalis, Benny Goodman, Charles Mingus, Max Roach, Coleman Hawkins, Fletcher Henderson, Tony Williams, Bessie Smith, Sonny Rollins, Chick Corea, Gil Evans New!
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- Jelly Roll Morton by Williams on 8 pages
- Encyclopaedia of Jazz: v. 1 by Leonard G. Feather in Front Matter, and page 377
- Bill Evans Trio: Jazz at the Maintenance Shop on page 291, and page 318
- My Favorite Things by Richard Rodgers on page 116
- Vocal Selections From the Broadway Musical Ain't Misbehavin the New Fats Waller Musical Show by Thomas "Fats" Waller on page 275
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- Jazz in Black and White: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Jazz Community by Charles D. Gerard in Back Matter
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