Jazz Idiom

Outlines the basics of jazz music and musicianship. Covers analysis of styles, training the ear, chord progressions, chord voicings, keyboard, improvising, and arranging.

A bri;llant behind the scenes portrait of the legendary figures at the early Monterey Jazz Festival

Includes two and four bar rock and jazz-rock beats designed for the modern drummer.

Employing modes of criticism and theory that have transformed study in the humanities, this title addresses questions seldom if ever raised in jazz writing: What are the implications of building jazz history around the medium of the phonograph record? Why did jazz writers first make the claim that jazz is an art?

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This uniquely organized method devotes a thorough chapter to each of the prevailing tune-types of jazz---standard, bebop, modal, blues, contemporary, ballad and free form---listing and discussing their characteristics and illustrating approaches to understanding and performing each type of tune. Includes CD.

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