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1) Elements of jazz: from cakewalks to fusion

Author

Messenger, Bill

Series

Great courses. Music and fine arts. Music appreciation
Great Courses Audio

Formats

Book, CD

Description

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Presents an overview of jazz, its elements, and its history.

2) Jazz

Author

Carr, Aaron

Series

My Favorite Music
I love music

Pub. Date

2015.

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1

Description

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Did you know that jazz music has its roots in Africa and Europe? It came from a kind of music called ragtime. Find out more in Jazz, one of the titles in the My Favorite Music series.

3) Jazz on a Saturday night

Author

Dillon, Leo

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1

Formats

Book, CD

Description

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Learn about this popular music form and hear each instrument play on a specially produced CD.

4) Jazz and its history

Author

Vigna, Giuseppe

Series

Masters of music

Pub. Date

c1999

Description

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This book traces the history and development of jazz through its instrumentalists and singers and explains how jazz forms came to influence and merge with Broadway show music, the swing bands of the 1930s and 1940s, the rock-and-roll of the 1950s and the electronic music of today.

5) The big bands

Author

Simon, George Thomas

6) Dangerous rhythms: jazz and the underworld

Author

English, T. J

Pub. Date

[2022]

Description

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"From T.J. English, the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne, comes the epic, scintillating narrative of the interconnected worlds of jazz and organized crime in 20th century America"--

7) Kind of blue

Author

Kahn, Ashley

Pub. Date

c.2000

8) Giants of jazz

Author

Terkel, Studs

Pub. Date

[c1957]

9) A listen to jazz

Author

Hord, Colleen

Series

Art and music

Pub. Date

[2014]

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1

Description

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Jazz is a uniquely American art form. This popular style of music sprang from post-slavery African-American culture, as children of slaves settled in big cities. They began to fuse their musical heritage with the influences of their new surroundings, and the result is still felt in the music we know as jazz today.

10) Jazz: an illustrated history

Author

Ward, Geoffrey C

Pub. Date

2000

11) Jazz in its time

Author

Williams, Martin T

Pub. Date

1989

12) Jazz

Author

Kirgiss, Crystal

Series

World of music

Pub. Date

c2002

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1

Description

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Traces the origins of jazz, examining its unique rhythmic improvisation, instrumentation, scat singing, changing styles, and prominent musicians.

13) 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

Author

Stroff, Stephen M

Series

Newmarket discovering great music series book

Pub. Date

c1991

14) The history of jazz

Author

Gioia, Ted

Pub. Date

[1998], c1997

Description

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Traces the development of jazz music from its origins in New Orleans through the late twentieth century, examining the different forms the music has taken throughout the years, telling of great moments in jazz history, and discussing some of the genre's most significant performers.

15) Panorama of American popular music: the story of our national ballads and folk songs, the songs of Tin Pan Alley, Broadway and Hollywood, New Orleans jazz, swing, and symphonic jazz

Author

Ewen, David

Pub. Date

[1957]

16) Jazz

Author

Handyside, Chris

Series

A history of American music

Pub. Date

c2006

Description

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Chronicles the origin and development of the American jazz movement describing the instruments, sounds, and techniques that characterize jazz music; as well as profiles of jazz legends including Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, and John Coltrane.

17) Meet me at Jim & Andy's: jazz musicians and their world

Author

Lees, Gene

Pub. Date

1988

Description

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A collection of biographical essays focusing on major jazz instrumentalists and bandleaders.

18) At the jazz band ball: sixty years on the jazz scene

Author

Hentoff, Nat

Pub. Date

c2010

Description

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A collection of essays, interviews, and personal recollections in which Nat Hentoff reflects on the inside history of jazz music and the people who shaped its development.