- Paperback: 442 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 8 edition (July 31 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0130992828
- ISBN-13: 978-0130992826
- Product Dimensions: 24.9 x 19.8 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 816 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #906,116 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"...iconoclastic, brilliant, unique ...provocative" - Jazz Journalists Association "...a splendid textbook ...a cornerstone for any jazz book collection." - American Library Association "...Teaching students HOW to listen and what to listen FOR in jazz ...a highly effective textbook for students who have had little or no exposure to jazz ...a broad, penetrating view of jazz history ...luminously clear..." - Down Beat "...a work of immense value not only to educators and players, but also to nonmusicians and jazz fans of all persuasions ...neat summaries of important jazz innovators and musical trends ...an instructor could use the Gridley book to accommodate a wide variety of learning situations..." - Jazz Times "...best all-around text on the market..." - The Black Perspective in Music
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This broad and encompassing survey provides a rich, informative, and chronological study of jazz, with insightful commentaries on its origins, and full descriptions of the various styles of jazz and the personalities that have contributed to this innovative form of music. Discussions of benchmark styles with point-by-point differentiation cover early jazz, swing, bop, hard bop, cool jazz, " free" jazz, and jazz-rock fusion--highlighting the musical characteristics of each style and contrasting each successive era. For musicians and non-musicians alike--to increase their appreciation and enjoyment of jazz.
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This review is from: Jazz Styles: History and Analysis (Paperback)
This is probably THE entry level text for anyone with an interest in Jazz. This great little primer is of necessarily short on detail but more than makes up for that by exposing the new jazz fan or student to most of the important figures, their musical styles and the sidemen who helped them create lasting documents. Starting from Gridley's book, one can spend the rest of one's life studying all the myriad pathways that jazz has taken as well as the people who broke those trails.
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"instrumental jazz" history?,
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This review is from: Jazz Styles: History and Analysis (Paperback)
Come on, Mark. 8 editions. Still no singers. Have Vaughan, Fitzgerald, Holiday, et al. contributed nothing to the art?
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