Experiencing jazz
By: Richard J. Lawn
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415699600
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Analysis, appreciation; Jazz; History and criticism
Notes: "First published 2007 by The McGraw-Hill Companies"--ECIP title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references, discography, and videography.
Table of contents: title: Understanding jazz. The nature of jazz ; The elements of music in jazz ; Listening to jazz ; The roots of jazz; title: Classic jazz. Jazz takes root ; The jazz age : from Chicago to New York ; The swing era : jazz at its peak ; Swinging across the country : the bands, singers & pianists; title: Modern jazz. The bebop revolution ; The fifties and early sixties cool, intellectual and abstract jazz; title: Post-modern jazz. Tradition meets the avant-garde : moderns and early post-moderns coexist ; Miles and miles of Miles : Miles Davis and his sidemen ; The electric 1970s and 1980s ; The unplugged, eclectic 1970s and 1980s ; Jazz for a new century.