Description

America’s most popular introduction to jazz–now with MyMusicLab

For undergraduate courses in Jazz History, Jazz Survey, Evolution of Jazz, Introduction to Jazz, and Jazz Appreciation.

America's most widely used introduction to jazz text captures the minds of students by teaching the history of the styles and how to actively listen to jazz. While its chronological format serves as a great resource for beginners, Jazz Styles is applicable to more advanced students because of its in-depth analysis of musical elements and its technical appendices that discuss music theory concepts.
This new edition incorporates a rich array of online features--including a full interactive eText, streaming audio, and historic performance video-through MyMusicLab. MyMusicLab was developed to help engage students in course material and assess their understanding of the material. With powerful online learning tools integrated into the book, the online and textbook experience is more seamless than ever before. MyMusicLab provides wonderful interactive resources that the instructor can bring directly into the classroom.

Teaching and Learning Experience

Personalize Learning- The new MyMusicLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals.

Improve Active Listening- Jazz Styles is celebrated for its detailed listening guides that take students through the key elements in each performance. Through MyMusicLab, these guides are now integrated with streaming audio for a truly integrated listening experience.

Engage Students- In the text, an engaging design, historic photographs, and active listening activities engage students in learning, while streaming audio, historic performances by jazz legends, and a full interactive eText in MyMusicLab engage them online.

Support Instructors- Supported by the best instructor resources on the market, including a full Instructor’s Manual, Testbank, MyMusicLab, ClassPrep for digital images.

Features

AMERICA’S MOST POPULAR INTRODUCTION TO JAZZ- NOW WITH MYMUSICLAB Audio Material to Enhance Student Learning:

• Listening Choices: Students have the option to listen to the featured examples in the text either through streaming audio (included with MyMusicLab at no additional charge), a downloadable audio file, or the traditional 3-CD Jazz Classics set. While all the listening examples are available for download or on the CD set, a few are not available in streaming audio format due to licensing issues. A complete annotated list can be found within the table of contents.
• DVD: Listening to Jazz–60-minute video version of the DEMO CD by Steve Gryb. Demonstrates all the instruments plus rhythm section methods.
• JAZZ DEMO CD. Explains 12-bar blues, A-A-B-A form, ride rhythms, walking bass, comping, syncopations, trumpet vs. flugelhorn, clarinet vs. soprano sax vs. alto sax vs. tenor sax vs. baritone sax, Harmon mute, plunger mute, chords, chord changes, blue notes, trombone, vibraphone, and flute.

PERSONALIZE LEARNING

• The new MyMusicLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals.
• MyMusicLab In-text Icons: Jazz Styles is keyed to dynamic resources within MyMusicLab using Listen, Watch, Explore, and Hear icons to indicate to students when to visit MyMusicLab for additional interactive and engaging experiences. (ex. pg. 50)
• The Pearson eText lets students access their textbook anytime, anywhere, and any way they want—including reading online or downloading to iPad.
• A personalized study plan for each student, based on Bloom’s Taxonomy, arranges content from less complex thinking—like remembering and understanding—to more complex critical thinking—like applying and analyzing. This layered approach promotes better critical-thinking skills, and helps students succeed in the course and beyond.
• Assessment tied to every video, application, and chapter enables both instructors and students to track progress and get immediate feedback. With results feeding into a powerful gradebook, the assessment program helps instructors identify student challenges early—and find the best resources with which to help students.
• An assignment calendar allows instructors to assign graded activities, with specific deadlines, and measure student progress.
• Class Prep collects the very best class presentation resources in one convenient online destination, so instructors can keep students engaged throughout every class.

IMPROVE ACTIVE LISTENING

• Listening Guides: Thoughtfully designed listening guides engage students in the music while leading them through a piece highlighting key musical elements. The guides also begin with an overview of the work and its place in jazz history, providing students with important background information.
• Streaming Audio: MyMusicLab features nearly all of the listening examples from the text in streaming audio, at no additional charge. Integrated into the online listening guides, streaming audio makes it easy for students to understand key concepts in every performance. Active listening quizzes included in every pre and post-test exercise for each chapter further builds listening skills.

ENGAGE STUDENTS

• Key concepts are boldfaced in the text to direct student learning and make preparing for exams and papers easier. (ex. pg. 49)
• Historic photographs specially selected to show musicians in performance from the period o

New to this Edition

AMERICA’S MOST POPULAR INTRODUCTION TO JAZZ- NOW WITH MYMUSICLAB

• We are pleased to announce a Downloadable Audio package is now available for packaging with Jazz Styles and MyMusicLab. This package contains all the musical selections from the text and corresponds to the listening guides in the text and on MyMusicLab exactly. Students may load the listening examples directly on a portable MP3 player or their own computer.
• Included with MyMusicLab is streaming audio for nearly all of the examples included on the 3-CD Jazz Classics set, plus assessment including audio examples.
• New photos and updated information throughout

PERSONALIZE LEARNING

• MyMusicLab: New to this edition is a complete MyMusicLab, featuring interactive eText, streaming audio of most musical examples, historic performance films, and complete assessment.
• Watch/Listen/Explore/Study icons are integrated into the text to direct students to the interactive assets on MyMusicLab allowing instructors and students access to music, documentaries, videos, and interactive features.
• • Listen icon: Guides students to the downloadable audio or CD selection highlighted in the chapter and additional audio clips, including features on and interviews with great jazz performances. (ex. pg. 50)
  • Watch icon: Links to online video and documentaries including 18 historic performances from Bessie Smith to Weather Report, and documentaries on key performers, places, and trends in jazz history. (ex. pg. 38)
  • Explore icon: Indicates the plethora of learning materials, such as chapter objectives and flashcards. (ex. pg. 113)
• A complete e-Text with dynamic multimedia links, gives students access to their book online and lets them highlight and add their own notes, just like the printed text.
• A Gradebook with automated grading and quizzes and assignments allows students to follow their own progress and instructors to monitor the work of the entire class.
• Active Listening Guides mirror the listening guides in the printed text and feature full streaming audio.

SUPPORT INSTRUCTORS

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Updated Endnotes reflecting new research on all aspects of jazz history. Citations of web-accessible literature, recordings, and videos have been added.

Assessment tied to every video, application, and chapter enables both instructors and students to track progress and get immediate feedback. With results feeding into a powerful gradebook, the assessment program helps instructors identify student challenges early—and find the best resources with which to help students.

An assignment calendar allows instructors to assign graded activities, with specific deadlines, and measure student progress.

ClassPrep- This feature within MyMusicLab collects the very best class presentation resources in one convenient online destination including PowerPoint slides, streaming audio and video, audio clips for

Table of Contents

1. Table of Contents

2. CD Listing

 

1. Table of Contents

 

CONTENTS

Preface

Acknowledgements

 

1. INTRODUCTION

 

PART I BASICS OF JAZZ

2. WHAT IS JAZZ?

3. APPRECIATING JAZZ IMRPOVISATION

 

PART II PREMODERN JAZZ

4. ORIGINS OF JAZZ

5. EARLY JAZZ: COMBO JAZZ PRIOR TO THE MIDDLE 1930s

6. SWING: THE EARLY 1930s TO THE LATE 1940s

7. DUKE ELLINGTON

8 THE COUNT BASIE BANDS

 

PART III MODERN JAZZ: THE EARLY 1940s TO THE EARLY 1950s

9. BOP: THE EARLY 1940s TO THE EARLY 1950s

10. COOL JAZZ

11. HARD BOP

12. MILES DAVIS, HIS GROUPS & SIDEMEN

13. JOHN COLTRANE

 

PART IV MODERN JAZZ: THE EARLY 1960s TO THE PRESENT

14. 1960s AND 1970s AVANTE-GARDE AND 'FREE' JAZZ

15. BILL EVANS, HERBIE HANCOCK, CHICK COREA, AND KEITH JARRETT

16. JAZZ-ROCK FUSION

17. 1980 TO THE PRESENT

18. OTHER VOICES

 

APPENDICES

APPENDIX A: BREIF OUTLINE OF JAZZ STYLES

APPENDIX B: ELEMENTS OF MUSIC

APPENDIX C: STRATEGIES FOR BUYING RECORDED MUSIC

APPENDIX D: A SMALL BASIC COLLECTION OF JAZZ VIDEOS

APPENDIX E: GLOSSARY

APPENDIX F: SUPPLEMENTARY READING

APPENDIX G: SOURCES FOR SOLO TRANSSCRIPTIONS

APPENDIX H: FOR MUSICIANS

 

INDEX

 

2. CD Listing

 

Track Listing
Please refer to the text page number, shown in bold, to view the Listening Guide for each selection.

CD 1

African Retentions Sequence
1. Street Cries of Charleston  (Trad.) [0:30]. African American male street vendor; p. 51.
Courtesy of The Concord Music Group
2.  Porgy and Bess: Fisherman, Strawberry, Devil Crab (Gershwin) [0:49]. Miles Davis instrumentally imitating the cry of an African American male street vendor, accompanied by the Gil Evans Orchestra; p. 51.
Originally released 1959. All rights reserved by Sony Music Entertainment
3. Hunter’s Dance excerpt (Trad.) [0:36]. West African field recording; p. 52.
Courtesy of Essential Media Group
4. One Day excerpt (Trad.) [0:30]. The Angelic Gospel Singers and The Dixie Hummingbirds; p. 53.
Originally released 1952. All rights reserved by Sony Music Entertainment
5. One O’Clock Jump excerpt (Basie) [0:33].  Count Basie; p. 53.
Originally released 1942.  All rights reserved by Sony Music Entertainment
6. Birdland excerpt (J. Zawinul) [0:25]. Weather Report with Joseph Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, and Jaco Pastorius;  p. 53.
(P) 1977 Sony Music Entertainment

Historic Recordings 
7. Dixie Jazz Band One-Step (D. LaRocca-Joe Jordan) [2:35].  The Original Dixieland Jazz Band; p. 62.
Originally released 1917. All rights reserved by Sony Music Entertainment
8. Wolverine Blues (Morton) [3:19].  Jelly Roll Morton, Johnny Dodds, and Baby Dodds; p. 66.
Originally released 1927. All rights reserved by Sony Music Entertainment
9. Singing the Blues (J.R. Robinson-C. Conrad-S. Lewis-J. Young) [2:58].   Frankie Trumbauer and his Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke; p. 84.
Originally released 1927. All rights reserved by Sony Music Entertainment
10. West End Blues (J. Oliver-C. Williams) [3:14].  Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five featuring Earl Hines; p. 76.
Originally released 1928. All rights reserved by Sony Music Entertainment
11. Hotter Than That (L. Armstrong) [2:58].  Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five; p. 80.
Originally released 1928. All rights reserved by Sony Music Entertainment
12. Handful of Keys (Fats Waller) [2:43].  Fats Waller; p. 71.
Originally released 1929. All rights reserved by Sony Music Entertainment
13. You’ve Got t