Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith

Listen to Jazz!

Exploring a Musical Genre

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Exploring jazz music using a close reading of songs, albums, and techniques, Listen to Jazz! provides an introduction to the diversity of the music for new listeners and experts alike"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 162mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 628g
• ISBN-13: 9781440875519
• ISBN-10: 1440875510
• Artikelnr.: 69719952

Autorenporträt

Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith

Inhaltsangabe

Series Forward
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Background
2. Must-Hear Music
Louis Armstrong
Lil Hardin Armstrong and Valaida Snow
Sidney Bechet
Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard, and Kenneth Casey: "Sweet Georgia Brown" and
Kurt Weill,
Bertolt Brecht, and Marc Blitzstein: "Mack the Knife"
Elmer Bernstein and Mack David: "Walk on the Wild Side" and Lou Reed: "Walk
on the Wild
Side"
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Snarky Puppy, and Nérija
Billie Holiday and Julie London
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Moanin' and Hailu Mergia and the Walias
Band: Tche
Belew
Cannonball Adderley: Somethin' Else
Hoagy Carmichael and Mitchell Parish: "Stardust" and Ann Ronell: "Willow
Weep for Me"
Terri Lyne Carrington: The Mosaic Project and Esperanza Spalding: Radio
Music Society
Benny Carter, Lionel Hampton, and Dorothy Ashby
John Coltrane: "Giant Steps" and Alice Coltrane: "Translinear Light"
John Coltrane: My Favorite Things and Dexter Gordon: Go!
The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Out and Quasimode: Oneself Likeness
Miles Davis and Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah
Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker
Eric Dolphy: Out to Lunch! and Andrew Hill: Point of Departure
Duke Ellington
Ella Fitzgerald, Betty Carter, and Astrud Gilberto
Ginger Baker: Why?
Robert Glasper: Black Radio, Black Radio 2, Miles Ahead, and Black Radio
III
Stéphane Grappelli, Django Reinhardt, and L. Subramaniam
Vince Guaraldi: "Cast Your Fate to the Wind," Ben Tucker and Bob Dorough:
"Comin' Home
Baby," and The Pacific Express: "Wind Song"
Earle Hagen and Dick Rogers: "Harlem Nocturne" and Dizzy Gillespie: "A
Night in Tunisia"
Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Hiromi Uehara, and Connie Han
Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, and Kamasi Washington
Al Hirt and Kenny Ball
Fred Katz and Chico Hamilton
Stan Kenton, Esquivel, and Tito Puente
King Crimson: "21st Century Schizoid Man," Weather Report: "Unknown
Soldier," and
Steely Dan: "Josie"
Fela Kuti
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross and Jack Sheldon
Marian McPartland and George Shearing
Bobby McFerrin, Leon Parker, and Aziza Mustafazadeh
Miles Davis Quintet: Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um and Tijuana Moods
Wes Montgomery, George Benson, Emily Remler, and Lionel Loueke
Gerry Mulligan: Night Lights
Newport Jazz Festival and Related Studio Recordings
Ken Nordine, Jayne Cortez, and John Sinclair
Edgar Sampson: "Stompin' at the Savoy" and Louis Prima: "Sing, Sing, Sing
(With a Swing)"
Wayne Shorter: Speak No Evil and Wayne Shorter Quartet: Emanon
Stan Getz and João Gilberto: Getz/Gilberto and Charlie Byrd: Brazilian Byrd
Sun Ra and Ornette Coleman
The Swingle Singers, Pizzicato Five, and Take 6
Art Tatum, Mary Lou Williams, Thelonious Monk, and Abdullah Ibrahim
Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band: Long Yellow Road, and Jon Jang:
The Pledge of Black Asian Allegiance
Sarah Vaughan, Nina Simone, and Cécile McLorin Salvant
Tom Waits and Rickie Lee Jones
3. Impact on Popular Culture
4. Legacy
Bibliography
Index