Jazz : essential listening

Jazz: Essential Listening provides all the materials students need to listen to, understand, and love jazz. Written by two master storytellers, this new brief text combines a dynamic listening experience with vivid narrative history, must-hear masterworks, and a superior eMedia package to reveal the excitement of America's quintessential music. Authors Scott DeVeaux and Gary Giddins write with intellectual bite, eloquence, and the passion of unabashed fans. They explain what jazz is, where it came from, how it works, and who created it, all within the broader context of American life and culture.

Book. Part I. Musical orientation. Musical elements and instruments ; Jazz form and improvisation -- Part II. Early Jazz. The roots of jazz ; New Orleans ; New York in the 1920's ; Louis Armstrong and the first great soloists -- Part III. The swing era. Swing bands ; Count Basie and Duke Ellington ; A world of soloists ; Rhythm in transition -- Part IV. Modern jazz. Bebop ; Cool jaz and hard bop ; Jazz composition in the 1950's ; Modality: Miles Davis and John Coltrane -- Part V. The avant-garde, fusion, historicism, and now. The avant-garde ; Fusion I: R & B, singers, and Latin jazz ; Jazz, rock, and beyond ; Historicism: Jazz on jazz ; Jazz today.

DVD-ROM. Reckless blues (Bessie Smith) -- West end blues (Louis Armstrong) -- Now's the time (Charlie Parker) -- A sailboat in the moonlight (Billie Holiday and her Orchestra) -- So what (Miles Davis) -- The buzzard lope (Bessie Smith) -- Dead man blues (Jelly Roll Morton) -- Snake rag (King Oliver) -- You've got to be modernistic (James P. Johnson) -- Black and tan fantasy (Duke Ellington and his orchestra) -- Weather bird (Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines) -- Singin' the blues (Frank Trumbauer and his Orchestra, featuring Bix Beiderbecke) -- Dinah (Benny Goodman Quartet) -- Star dust (Artie Shaw and his Orchestra) -- Walkin' and swingin' (Andy Kirk and his Twelve Clouds of Joy) -- One o'clock jump (Count Basie and his Orchestra) -- Conga brava (Duke Ellington: The Blanton-Webster Band) -- Body and soul (Coleman Hawkins and his Orchestra) -- Oh! Lady be good (Count Basie and his Orchestra) -- Blue skies (Ella Fitzgerald) -- Over the rainbow (Art Tatum) -- Swing to bop (Topsy) (Charlie Christian) -- Ko ko (false start) (Charlie Parker and his Re-Boppers) -- Ko ko (master take) (Charlie Parker and his Re-Boppers) -- Tempus fugue-it (Bud Powell) -- Long tall Dexter (Dexter Gordon) -- Moon dreams (Miles Davis) -- A night in Tunisia (Clifford Brown) -- Autumn nocturne (Sonny Rollins) -- Rhythm-a-ning (Thelonious Monk) -- Boogie stop shuffle (Charles Mingus) -- Concerto for Billy the Kid (George Russell Smalltet) -- Acknowledgement (John Coltrane) -- E.S.P. (Miles Davis) -- Lonely woman (Ornette Coleman) -- Willisau concert, part 3 (Cecil Taylor) -- The organ grinder's swing (Jimmy Smith) -- Manteca (Dizzy Gillespie) -- Teen town (Weather Report) -- Tutu (Miles Davis) -- Processional (Wynton Marsalis) -- You've got to be modernistic (Jason Moran).