Know It All Jazz (eBook)

The 50 Crucial Concepts, Styles, and Performers, Each Explained in Under a Minute

Dave Gelly (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
160 Seiten
Wellfleet Press (Verlag)
978-0-7603-6121-4 (ISBN)

Infos

For non-aficionados, jazz can be slippery and difficult to grasp. Jazz can leave a novice baffled, unsure how to listen, and with the question ';How is it that they know what to play?'Know-It-All Jazz takes readers from the African-American roots and all the way to the global mix of styles and performers in today's jazz scene. Along the way, it looks at the shape, style, and instruments of the discipline, key personalities and recordings in the jazz canon, and, finally, at what might be expected next from this most diverse of musical forms. Punchy and engaging entries help readers understand the basics in under a minute, ensuring that this is the ultimate companion for newcomers to the instinctive and diverse world of jazz. The Know It All seriestakes a revolutionary approach tolearning about the subjects you really feelyou should understand but have never gotten around to studying.Each book selects a popular topic and dissects it into the50 mostsignificant ideasat its heart. Each idea, no matter how complex, isexplained in 300 words and one picture, all digestible in under a minute. Other titles in this series include: Know It All Anthropology, Know It All Chemistry, Know It All Classical Music, Know It All Energy, Know It All Fashion, Know It All Great Inventions, Know It All Medicine, Know It All Shakespeare, Know It All Whiskey, Know It All Wine, Space In 30 Seconds, Sports in 30 Seconds.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.4.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Know It All
• Reihe/Serie: Know It All
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
• Schlagworte: 7 great american jazz songbook of men • & how jazz is learned • amp; how jazz is learned • bands, big & small • bass: double bass & bass guitar • bebop to hard bop • Benny Goodman • Bossa Nova • carnegie hall concert • Charlie Parker • clarinet & flute • classic jazz albums • count basie: the atomic mr. basie • drums & percussion • Duke Ellington • early blues • Ella Fitzgerald • European Jazz • great american jazz songbook of women • guitar: acoustic & electric • instruments of jazz • jazz & the blues • jazz contemporaries • jazz divas • jazz meets the blues • jazz rock & fusion • jazz vocal groups • john coltrane: a love supreme • keith jarrett: the köln concert • louis armstrong: • Louis Armstrong • michael brecker: • Miles Davis • miles davis: kind of blue • new orleans & classic jazz • orchestral jazz • Piano & Keyboards • saxophone • scat & vocalese • styles of jazz • Swing • the complete legendary 1938 • the diversity of styles of jazz • the jazz language • trumpet & trombone • Vocal jazz • weather report: heavy weather • where jazz is played now • where jazz was played in the past
• ISBN-10: 0-7603-6121-5 / 0760361215
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7603-6121-4 / 9780760361214