Table of Contents
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