Jazz /

Title:

Jazz /

Author:

DeVeaux, Scott Knowles, author.

Format:

Book

Institution:

MassArt

Contents:

I. Musical orientation. 1. Musical elements and instruments ; 2. Jazz form and improvisation -- II. Early jazz (1900-1930). 3. The roots of jazz ; 4. New Orleans ; 5. New York in the 1920s ; 6. Louis Armstrong and the first great soloists -- III. The swing era. 7. Swing bands ; 8. Count Basie and Duke Ellington ; 9. A world of soloists ; 10. Rhythm in transition -- IV. Modern jazz. 11. Bebop ; 12. The 1950s : cool jazz and hard bop ; 13. Jazz composition in the 1950s ; 14. Modality : Miles Davis and John Coltrane -- V. The avant-garde, fusion, historicism, and now. 15. The avant-garde ; 16. Fusion I : R & B, singers, and Latin jazz ; 17. Fusion II : jazz, rock, and beyond ; 18. Historicism : jazz on jazz ; 19. Jazz today.

Online access:

No online access

Library holdings:

MassArt Main
ML3508 .D47 2015 – Available

• Available Temporarily at MassArt Reserves
  On reserve for HUM 229-01: History of Jazz (Humanities: Kenagy)