Concise Guide to Jazz, Fifth Edition
(Abridged Edition of Jazz Styles)

The Concise Guide to Jazz contains 109 photos and is 295 pages in 11 chapters, with 5 appendices and 2 compact discs of 38 historic recordings and a compact disc of 171 narrated demonstrations of instruments, song forms, and strategies used to make jazz.


"...clearly a text designed to fit a ten-week college quarter; but it can also serve nicely as an informative introduction to jazz for novice fans...Gridley manages to touch most of the important musical bases with chapters devoted to early jazz, swing, bebop, cool jazz, hard bop, avant-garde, and fusion...a few hours with The Concise Guide to Jazz will add immeasurably to one's enjoyment of the music" --Jazz Forum

"...The best approach to contemporary Jazz education..." --Jazz Times

The author tells what jazz is, how it originated, and how it is made. He emphasizes effective strategies to get the most out of listening to jazz. Focusing on 40 of the most historically significant musicians, Gridley offers a basic, first-time orientation to jazz.

FEATURES

  • Succinct chapter summaries facilitate quick and accurate study.
  • 109 Stunning photos portray the top musicians at work, with captions summarizing their contributions.
  • Elements of Music Appendix offers an illustrated short course in the basics of music: rhythm, scales, blue notes, chord progressions, song forms, and tone color.
  • Album Buying Strategies Appendix gives handy pointers for quickly selecting and locating the best albums.
Chapters
 
  1. What Is Jazz?
  2.  How to Listen to Jazz
  3.  The Origins of Jazz
  4. Early Jazz
  5.  Swing
  6.  Bebop
  7.  Cool Jazz
  8. Hard Bop
  9.  Avant-Garde of the 1960s and 70s
  10. Fusion
  11.  Now

Appendix

  • Elements of Music
  • Album Buying Strategies
  • Small Basic Collection of Jazz Videos
  • For Musicians
Glossary
Index
Illustrations
Line Drawings and Instrument Photos


Drums
Audience view of drum set &n 
Guitar and banjo
Tuba

Clarinet and soprano sax
Alto, tenor, and baritone saxophone
Cornet, trumpet, fluegelhorn, and trombone
Bass guitar

Musician Photos


Metronome All-Stars
Charles Mingus
Chick Corea, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette,
and Wayne Shorter
Dizzy Gillespie
Benny Goodman
Lester Young and Jo Jones
Ray Brown
Jim Hall
J.J. Johnson
The Superior Orchestra
A black military brass band of the Civil War period
Scott Joplin
Ory's Woodland Band
Sidney Bechet
Eureka Brass Band
Ma Rainey
Joe "King" Oliver's Creole Jazz Band of 1923
Original Dixieland Jass Band
Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers
James P. Johnson
Earl Hines
Fats Waller
Louis Armstrong
The ODJB playing into acoustic recording horns
Bix Beiderbecke
Louis Armstrong singing
Bessie Smith
Duke Ellington's 1942 band
Jimmy Blanton
Sonny Greer
Roy Eldridge
Coleman Hawkins
The 1938 Count Basie band
Count Basie
Lester Young
Art Tatum
Billie Holiday
Teddy Wilson
Ella Fitzgerald
Benny Goodman band of 1936
The Duke Ellington Band of the 1930s
Cootie Williams
Johnny Hodges
Charlie Parker and Miles Davis
Charlie Mingus, Roy Haynes, Thelonious Monk,
and Charlie Parker
Max Roach
Charlie Parker
The Dizzy Gillespie Big Band
Thelonious Monk
Bud Powell
Dexter Gordon
Sarah Vaughan
Stan Getz
The Modern Jazz Quartet
Gerry Mulligan, Larry Bunker, Chet Baker, and Lee Konitz
Lennie Tristano
Lee Konitz
The "Birth of the Cool" band
Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Stan Kenton's 1947 band
Cannonball Adderley
Art Blakey
Horace Silver
Cannonball Adderley, Paul Chambers, John Coltrane, and Miles Davis
Miles Davis playing into Harmon mute
Clifford Brown
Freddie Hubbard
Cannonball Adderley and Nat Adderley
Clifford Brown and Sonny Rollins
John Coltrane
Wes Montgomery
Cecil Taylor
Albert Ayler
Ornette Coleman
Cecil Taylor and Buell Neidlinger
The John Coltrane Quartet of 1962
John Coltrane playing soprano sax
Ornette Coleman's band minus Coleman
Bill Evans
Chick Corea and John Pattitucci
Tony Williams
John McLaughlin
Wayne Shorter, Miroslav Vitous, and Joe Zawinul
Jaco Pastorius
Herbie Hancock
Chick Corea
DJ Logic
Herbie Hancock, Buster Williams, Bennie Maupin, and Eddie Henderson
Miles Davis band of 1982
John Zorn
David Sanborn
Michael Brecker
Keith Jarrett
Joe Henderson
Wayne Shorter
Dave Douglas
Tito Puente
Miles Davis playing into cup mute
Quentin Jackson playing into plunger mute
Dicky Wells playing into straight mute




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