The Ninth Edition of Jazz takes students on an extraordinary musical journey through the changing styles and the fascinating history of jazz.
With a strong emphasis on listening and an outstanding photo program, Jazz offers an insider’s view of the most important music, artists, clubs, and precursors in jazz history.
New to the Ninth Edition, personal accounts by major players in the scene — “Witness to Jazz” — take students inside the sessions, giving them a firsthand view of the lively context surrounding the growth of this uniquely American art form.
I stole this textbook from a roommate and read it cover to cover. It gave a wonderfully detailed history of this type of music and its many off-chutes. I found it extremely entertaining while reading it, but forgot almost everything I read the second I finished. And sadly I still can't distinguish bop, from cool, from third stream, from hard bop.