Discovering great jazz : a new listener's guide to the sounds and styles of the top musicians and their recordings on CDs, LPs, and cassettes / Stephen M. Stroff.

Author
Stroff, Stephen M. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
Updated ed.
Published/​Created
New York : Newmarket Press, 1993.
Description
xii, 179 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

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    Series
    • Newmarket discovering great music series book [More in this series]
    • A Newmarket discovering great music series book
    Bibliographic references
    • Discography: p. [160]-168.
    • Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-170) and index.
    Contents
    • Prehistory and formative years. Leadbelly ; Scott Joplin ; Eubie Blake ; Richard M. Jones ; Steve Lewis ; Buddy Bolden ; Freddie Keppard ; Bunk Johnson ; Jelly Roll Morton ; Original Dixieland Jazz Band ; King Oliver ; Johnny Dodds ; New Orleans Rhythm Kings ; Leon Rappolo
    • Groundbreakers of the twenties. Bix Beiderbecke ; Muggsy Spanier ; Louis Armstrong ; James P. Johnson ; Earl Hines ; Jimmie Noone ; Bessie Smith ; Jelly Roll Morton ; Jimmy Harrison ; Jack Teagarden ; Fletcher Henderson ; Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti ; Red Nichols ; Johnny Hodges ; Duke Ellington
    • Depression. Glen Gray ; Cab Calloway ; Bennie Moten ; Benny Carter ; Don Redman ; Sidney Bechet ; Bunny Berigan ; The Bowell Sisters ; Bud Freeman ; Fats Waller ; Duke Ellington ; Django Reinhardt ; Stephane Grappelli ; Art Tatum
    • Swing, brother, swing! Benny Goodman ; Chick Webb ; Duke Ellington ; Sy Oliver ; Charlie Barnet ; Count Basie ; Billie Holiday ; Andy Kirk ; Erskine Hawkins ; Bob Crosby ; Earl Hines ; Red Norvo ; Louis Armstrong ; Roy Eldridge ; Anita O'Day ; Gene Krupa ; Lionel Hampton ; Jimmy Yancey ; Coleman Hawkins ; John Kirby
    • Changing tides. Nat "King" Cole ; Stan Kenton ; Woody Herman ; Boyd Raeburn ; Illinois Jacquet ; Charlie Christian ; Charlie Parker ; Dizzy Gillespie ; Fats Navarro ; Wardell Gray ; Charlie Ventura ; Thelonious Monk ; Art Blakey ; Bud Powell
    • The birth of the cool. Claude Thornhill ; Miles Davis ; Gerry Mulligan ; Chet Baker ; Shorty Rogers ; Buddy de Franco ; Clifford Brown ; Sonny Rollins ; Art Pepper ; Errol Garner ; Stan Getz ; Sarah Vaughan ; Ella Fitzgerald ; Mel Tormé ; The Modern Jazz Quartet ; Dave Brubeck ; Charles Mingus
    • New times, new sounds. Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross ; Miles Davis ; George Russell ; Toshiko Akiyoshi ; Bill Evans ; John Coltrane ; Ornette Coleman ; Ramsey Lewis ; Chick Corea ; The Brecker Brothers ; Rahsaan Roland Kirk ; Thad Jones-Mel Lewis ; Cleo Laine ; Al Jarreau ; Freddie Hubbard
    • Confirmation. Tania Maria ; Arthur Blythe ; Bobby Enriquez ; Wynton and Branford Marsalis ; Marcus Roberts ; Sheila Jordan ; Jamaaladeen Tacuma ; Steve Lacy ; Michael Brecker ; World Saxophone Quartet ; Turtle Island String Quartet ; Dirty Dozen Brass Band ; Jack Walrath ; Epitaph
    • Epilogue
    • Basic jazz terms
    • A basic jazz library : Sixty albums
    • Jazz on compact discs.
    ISBN
    • 1557041695 ((pbk.))
    • 9781557041692 ((pbk.))
    OCLC
    29613423
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