The Oxford companion to jazz
By: edited by Bill Kirchner.
Contributors: Kirchner, Bill.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 852
Subjects: Jazz -- History and criticism
Description: "Essays cover major historical trends and figures, discuss jazz in different countries, review the role of most instruments and consider the place of jazz in other arts, like dance, literature and film." N.Y. Times Book Rev. "This work is an effective single-volume device, leading current listeners to the music while including enough newer scholarship to retain the interest of connoisseurs." Libr J.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 799-806) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: African roots of jazz --; title: European roots of jazz --; title: Ragtime then and now --; title: The early origins of jazz --; title: New York roots: Black Broadway, James Reese Europe, early pianists --; title: The blues in jazz --; title: Bessie Smith --; title: King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, and Sidney Bechet: Ménage à trois, New Orleans style --; title: Louis Armstrong --; title: Bix Beiderbecke --; title: Duke Ellington --; title: Hot music in the 1920s: the "Jazz Age," appearances and realities --; title: Pianists of the 1920s and 1930s --; title: Coleman Hawkins --; title: Lester Young --; title: Streamlining jazz: major soloists of the 1930s and 1940s --; title: Jazz singing: between blues and bebop --; title: Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, and Billie Holiday --; title: Jazz and the American song --; title: Pre-swing era big bands and jazz composing and arranging --; title: Swing era big bands and jazz composing and arranging --; title: The advent of bebop --; title: The New Orleans revival --; title: Charlie Parker --; title: Cool jazz and West Coast jazz --; title: Jazz and classical music: to the third stream and beyond --; title: Pianists of the 1940s and 1950s --; title: Hard bop --; title: Miles Davis --; title: Big bands and jazz composing and arranging after World War II --; title: Thelonius Monk and Charles Mingus --; title: John Coltrane --; title: The avant-garde, 1949-1967 --; title: Pianists of the 1960s and 1970s --; title: Jazz singing since the 1940s --; title: Jazz since 1968 --; title: Fusion --; title: Jazz repertory --; title: Latin jazz --; title: Jazz in Europe: the real world music or the full circle --; title: Jazz and Brazilian music --; title: Jazz in Africa: the ins and outs --; title: Jazz in Japan --; title: Jazz in Canada and Australia --; title: The clarinet in jazz --; title: The saxophone in jazz --; title: The trumpet in jazz --; title: The trombone in jazz --; title: The electric guitar and vibraphone in jazz: batteries not included --; title: Miscellaneous instruments in jazz --; title: The bass in jazz --; title: Jazz drumming --; title: Jazz and dance --; title: Jazz and film and television --; title: Jazz clubs --; title: Jazz and American literature --; title: Jazz criticism --; title: Jazz education --; title: Recorded jazz --; title: Jazz improvisation and concepts of virtuosity.