John E. Hasse
Tad Lathrop
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Discover the whole world of Jazz!
Discover Jazz offers an inclusive, contextual, and student-friendly way to discover the whole world of jazz.
Discover Jazz presents an inclusive overview of the history of jazz, with balanced coverage of the contributions of men and women from around the world. Emphasizing the importance of context, the text presents the story of jazz not as a simple narrative, but as a series of encounters among musicians, historical events, musical influences, and social forces. And, this student-friendly text gives readers the tools they need to actively listen to—and build their own relationships with—this great American art form.
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DISCOVER THE WHOLE WORLD OF JAZZ
IMPROVE ACTIVE LISTENING
Listening Choices: Discover Jazz offers students quality recordings by major artists in the history of jazz available in the following formats:
ENGAGE STUDENTS
IN THIS SECTION:
1.) BRIEF
2.) COMPREHENSIVE
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Chapter 1: Introducing Jazz
Chapter 2: Listening to Jazz
Chapter 3: The Birth of Jazz
Chapter 4: Early Jazz
Chapter 5: The Swing Era
Chapter 6: Bebop and Modern Jazz
Chapter 7: Mainstream Jazz
Chapter 8: Free and Exploratory Jazz
Chapter 9: Fusion
Chapter 10: Latin Jazz
Chapter 11: Jazz Worldwide
Chapter 12: Jazz Forward
COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Chapter 1: Introducing Jazz - Tad Lathrop and John Edward Hasse
Take Note
ISSUES: Jazz as an “American” Art Form by Richard Carlin
STYLE/TECHNIQUE: Listening with Untrained Ears by Tad Lathrop
First Listening
Listening with Untrained Ears
Defining Jazz: A Beginning
Improvisation in Jazz
Other Dimensions of Jazz
Jazz and Society
Jazz and the Arts
Social Life and Issues
Jazz and Historic Trends
National Identity
Racial Identity
ISSUES: Jazz as African-American Music by Tad Lathrop
Cultural Significance
Chapter Summary
Discussion Questions
Key Terms and Key People
Chapter 2: Listening to Jazz - Tad Lathrop and John Edward Hasse
Take Note
Listening Focus: Melody
Listening Tips for Jazz Melody
Listening Focus: Harmony
Listening Tips for Jazz Harmony
Listening Focus: Rhythm
Listening Tips for Jazz Rhythm
Listening Focus: Form and Structure
Chorus Form
Compound Form
Listening Tips for Jazz Form and Structure
Listening Focus: Color and Texture
Listening Tips for Jazz Color and Texture
Listening Focus: Voice, Feel, and Expression
Listening Tips for Voice, Feel, and Expression
Listening Focus: Improvisation
Listening Tips for Jazz Improvisation
Listening Focus: Style and Experimentation
Listening Tips for Style and Experimentation
Musicians’ Roles, Individual and Collective
STYLE/TECHNIQUE: The Team Sport of Jazz by John Edward Hasse
Listening Tips for Musicians’ Interaction
Jazz as an Art Form
STYLE/TECHNIQUE: Standard Practices in Jazz
Listening Tips Wrap-Up
Chapter Summary
Discussion Questions
Key Terms and Key People
Chapter 3: The Birth of Jazz - John Edward Hasse
Take Note
Timeline
Old-World Roots
African Influences
LISTENING FOCUS: Simpa (Fire)
European Influences
New Orleans
New Orleans’ Six Jazz-Creating Conditions
LISTENING GUIDE: In Gloryland
HISTORY/CULTURE: Parading with a Brass Band by Michael White
Musical Antecedents
The Blues
LISTENING FOCUS: Old John Henry Died on the Mountain
LISTENING FOCUS: Boll Weevil
JAZZ CLASSICS: St. Louis Blues
Ragging and Ragtime
LISTENING GUIDE: Maple Leaf Rag
ISSUES: The Ragtime Wars
Jazz: An Improvisational Music for Dancing
New Orleans Notables
LISTENING FOCUS: Livery Stable Blues,
New Orleans Style and "Jass" Variants
JAZZ CLASSICS: Tiger Rag by Jack Stewart
Chapter Summary
Discussion Questions
Key Terms and Key People
Chapter 4: Early Jazz - Michael Brooks
Take Note
Timeline
Chicago
LISTENING FOCUS: Dipper Mouth Blues
LISTENING GUIDE: West End Blues
LISTENING GUIDE: Black Bottom Stomp
Kansas City
New York
White Bands
JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz and Classical Music: The First Half of the 20th Century by Jeffrey Magee
Harlem and the Cotton Club
LISTENING GUIDE: Black and Tan Fantasy
HISTORY/CULTURE: The Cotton Club by John Edward Hasse
JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz and Tap by Rusty Frank
Vocalists
Jazz Arrangers of the ‘20s
Regional Bands
ISSUES: Jazz: Musical Virtue or Vice? by Tad Lathrop
Chapter Summary
Discussion Questions
Key Terms and Key People
Chapter 5: The Swing Era - John Edward Hasse
Take Note
Timeline
Jazz: A Mass Attraction
JAZZ AND THE ARTS: The Swing Dances
STYLE/TECHNIQUE: Big Band, Big Sound by Tad Lathrop
The Great Black Bands
HISTORY/CULTURE: Stompin’ at the Savoy
LISTENING GUIDE: Ko-Ko
LISTENING GUIDE: One O’Clock Jump
The Great White Bands
LISTENING GUIDE: Honeysuckle Rose
Big-Band Care and Maintenance
All-Women Bands
Shapers of the Sound
STYLE/TECHNIQUE: What Does an Arranger Do?
Anatomy of an Arrangement
Small Groups and Solo Artists
Solo Instrumentalists
LISTENING FOCUS: Body and Soul
Singers
HISTORY/CULTURE: John Hammond: Talent Scout, Jazz Catalyst
HISTORY/CULTURE: The New Orleans Revival
The End of the Swing Era
STYLE/TECHNIQUE: Boogie-Woogie
Chapter Summary
Discussion Questions
Key Terms and Key People
Chapter 6: Bebop and Modern Jazz - Bob Blumenthal
Take Note
Timeline
The Postwar Jazz Scene
HISTORY/CULTURE: After Hours at Minton’s
Parker, Gillespie, and the Birth of Bebop
LISTENING GUIDE: Shaw ’Nuff
ISSUES: Boppers Versus Moldy Figs by John Edward Hasse
LISTENING GUIDE: Embraceable You, Take A
STYLE/TECHNIQUE: Old Chords, New Melodies
HISTORY/CULTURE: Swing Street by Tad Lathrop
HISTORY/CULTURE:: Big Bands in the Modern Era
HISTORY/CULTURE: Norman Granz and Jazz at the Philharmonic
ISSUES: The Jazz Musician as Outsider
Piano Modernists
LISTENING GUIDE: Misterioso
JAZZ CLASSICS: ‘Round Midnight by David Baker
Cool Jazz and the West Coast Scene
LISTENING GUIDE: Boplicity
JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz and Film by Krin Gabbard
Beyond the Cool
JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz Poetry by Sascha Feinstein
Chapter Summary
Discussion Questions
Key Terms and Key People
Chapter 7: Mainstream Jazz - Neil Tesser
Take Note
Timeline
Setting the Stage
Miles Ahead
The Birth of Hard Bop
LISTENING GUIDE: The Preacher
HISTORY/CULTURE: New York Nights by Tad Lathrop
West-Coast Bop
STYLE/TECHNIQUE: Breaks and Fours by David Baker
Three Tenor Torchbearers: Gordon, Rollins, and Coltrane
LISTENING GUIDE: Giant Steps
TWO TAKES ON THE PIANO
LISTENING GUIDE: Blue Rondo a la Turk
Soul Jazz
ISSUES: Jazz and Religion by John Edward Hasse
HISTORY/CULTURE: Down Beat and the Jazz Magazines
HISTORY/CULTURE: Jazz Festivals
Continuing Traditions
JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz on Television by Larry Appelbaum
Vocalists of the Mainstream Era
JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz and Fiction by Gerald Early
Alternate Currents
JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz and Visual Art by Donna M. Cassidy
LISTENING GUIDE: So What
Chapter Summary
Discussion Questions
Key Terms and Key People
Chapter 8: Free and Exploratory Jazz - John Litweiler
Take Note
Timeline
1959: A Turning Point in Jazz History
ISSUES: Jazz: The Sound of Freedom by Tad Lathrop and John Litweiler
Free-Jazz Ancestors
Free-Jazz Innovations
Sonic Freedom
Harmonic Freedom
Formal Freedom
Rhythmic Freedom
STYLE/TECHNIQUE: How to Listen to Free Jazz
Free-Jazz Innovators
Coleman, Taylor, and Coltrane
LISTENING GUIDE: Ramblin’
HISTORY/CULTURE: The Loft Scene
Jazz Underground
Other Free Instrumentalists
LISTENING GUIDE: Ghosts (First Variation)
LISTENING GUIDE: Bush Magic
HISTORY/CULTURE: Jazz Cooperatives
Free Spaces
JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz on Radio by William H. Kenney, John Edward Hasse, and Tad Lathrop
Experimental Composers
JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz and Classical Music: The Second Half of the Twentieth Century
ISSUES: The Growing Role of Women in Jazz
Chapter Summary
Discussion Questions
Key Terms and Key People
Chapter 9: Fusion - Stephen F. Pond
Take Note
Timeline
Defining Fusion Jazz
Foreshadowing Fusion
Early Mixes
Rock, Funk, and the Climate for Fusion
Early Fusions
Miles Davis: Fusion Pioneer
LISTENING GUIDE: Miles Runs the Voodoo Down(single version)
Fusion in the Early ‘70s
STYLE/DEVELOPMENT: Offspring of Bitches Brew
Lifetime
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Weather Report
LISTENING GUIDE: Birdland
Return to Forever
Headhunters
LISTENING GUIDE: Watermelon Man
HISTORY/CULTURE: The Soul-Funk Connection
R&B Fusion
Polishing and Popularizing Fusion
ISSUES: Jazz Versus Fusion
Later Fusions
LISTENING GUIDE: Bright Size Life
Conclusino
HISTORY/CULTURE: Hip-Hop and Jazz by William E. Smith
JAZZ CLASSICS: Post-Mainstream Jazz Standards by David Baise
Chapter Summary
Discussion Questions
Key Terms and Key People
Chapter 10: Latin Jazz - Isabelle Leymarie, Tad Lathrop, and John Edward Hasse
Take Note
Common Sources, Different Sounds
ISSUES: Music of Hope and Survival by Tad Lathrop
A Heritage of Rhythm and Percussion
Cuban Roots
STYLE/TECHNIQUE: Cuban Rhythms by Isabelle Leymarie
Brazilian Roots
STYLE/TECHNIQUE: Brazilian Rhythms by Isabelle Leymarie
STYLE/TECHNIQUE: Comparing Aspects of North American, Afro-Cuban, and Brazilian Jazz by Tad Lathrop
Early Latin Influences on Jazz
JAZZ CLASSICS: Caravan by John Edward Hasse
Cuban Music and Jazz
LISTENING GUIDE: Manteca
LISTENING GUIDE: Airegin
Brazilian Music and Jazz
LISTENING GUIDE: The Girl from Ipanema,
More Sounds from the Caribbean
Later Trends in Latin and Caribbean Jazz
Chapter Summary
Discussion Questions
Key Terms and Key People
Chapter 11: Jazz Worldwide - Kevin Whitehead
Take Note
Jazz in Europe
The Early Years
HISTORY/CULTURE: Le Jazz Hot: Jazz in Paris Between the Wars by Philippe Baudoin
LISTENING GUIDE: Minor Swing
Controversies
The War Years and After
ISSUES: Jazz Under the Nazis by Rainer Lotz
Regional Conceptions of Jazz
Home-grown European Musicians and Styles
Jazz in Asia and Oceania
LISTENING GUIDE: Ting Ning
Jazz in the Middle East
Jazz in Africa
South Africa
LISTENING GUIDE: Mannenberg Revisited
Ethiopia
Senegal
Other Locales
Global Jazz in the 21st Century
Chapter Summary
Discussion Questions
Key Terms and Key People
Chapter 12: Jazz Forward - José Antonio Bowen
Take Note
The Continuing Life of Mainstream Acoustic Jazz
HISTORY/CULTURE: Institutional Jazz Programs by John Edward Hasse
HISTORY/CULTURE: Jazz Museums by John Edward Hasse
Wynton Marsalis and the Hard-Bop Revival
LISTENING GUIDE: Down the Avenue
HISTORY/CULTURE: The Big-Band Revival by Calvin Wilson and Tad Lathrop
Avant-Garde Jazz Continues to Grow
STYLE/TECHNIQUE: So Solos Aren't Important After All?
New Collectives and Ethnic Jazz
ISSUES: Jazz and Race Revisited
LISTENING GUIDE: The Glide Was in the Ride
Reenvisioning Jazz
LISTENING GUIDE: Planet Rock
Vocal Jazz
HISTORY/CULTURE: Vocal Groups
HISTORY/CULTURE: Jazz in the Marketplace
Conclusion
Chapter Summary
Discussion Questions
Key Terms and Key People
Glossary
Notes
Essential Jazz Reading
The Contributors
Credits
Index
MyTest Test Bank for Discovering Jazz
Hasse & Lathrop
©2012
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John Edward Hasse is a music historian, pianist, and award-winning author and record producer. Since 1984, he has served as Curator of American Music at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, where he founded the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra and Jazz Appreciation Month. He is the author of Beyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington, and co-producer/co-author of the book-and-six-disc set Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology.
Tad Lathrop has authored, produced, or edited more than 50 books on music, including Jazz: The First Century and two lauded volumes on the business of music. Lathrop lectures on music and the recording industry at colleges and professional conferences, and is an accomplished guitarist who has performed at numerous venues, including New York’s Blue Note.
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