How to listen to jazz
By: Ted Gioia
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780465060894
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Music appreciation; Analysis, appreciation; Jazz
Description: Music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively, accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz. Covering everything from the music's structure and history to the basic building blocks of improvisation, Gioia discusses what to listen for in a jazz performance. He shares listening strategies that will help readers understand and appreciate jazz, and provides a history of the major movements in jazz right up to the present day.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, discographies, and index.
Table of contents: title: The mystery of rhythm; title: Getting inside the music; title: The structure of jazz; title: The origins of jazz; title: The evolution of jazz styles; title: A closer look at some jazz innovators; title: Listening to jazz today; title: Appendix. The elite 150.