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What to listen for in jazz, Barry Kernfeld

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Includes discography (pages 206-211) and index

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What to listen for in jazz

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Barry Kernfeld

Barry Kernfeld provides a thorough, learned, and accessible introduction to jazz, discussing its musical concepts, procedures, and styles and providing the background necessary to fully enjoy this musical art. The book is organized around twenty-one historic jazz recordings - from the New Orleans Rhythm Kings' Tin Roof Blues (1923) to Ornette Coleman's Honeymooners (1987) - that are analyzed in the text and included in a compact disc that accompanies the book. Barry Kernfeld draws from these musical works to illustrate jazz rhythm, forms, arrangement, composition, improvisation, style, and sound (recording fidelity, tuning systems, instrumentation, and timbre). Included in the book are more than one hundred notated music examples keyed to the compact disc and a biographical dictionary of musicians who figure prominently on the disc

Introduction -- Rhythm -- Forms -- Arrangement -- Composition -- Improvisation -- Sound -- Epilogue: an introduction to style -- AppendixesAudio CD contents. Hotter than that : 1927 (Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five) -- Jumpin' at the Woodside : 1938 (Count Basie and His Orchestra) -- Honeymooners : 1987 (Ornette Coleman and Prime Time) -- Excerpt from Ascension, edition II) : 1965 (John Coltrane Orchestra) -- 'Round midnight : 1956 (Miles Davis Quintet) -- Ko-Ko (take 2) : 1940 (Duke Ellington and His Orchestra) -- Trumpet no end (originally issued as Blue skies) : 1946 (Duke Ellington and His Orchestra.) -- Manteca : 1947 (Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra) -- Excerpt from Maiden voyage : 1965 (Herbie Hancock Quintet) -- The man I love : 1943 (Coleman Hawkins Quartet) -- Sweet Sue : 1965 (Earl Hines) -- Georgia on my mind (take 1) : 1941 (Billie Holiday) -- Excerpt from Fables of Faubus : 1959 (Charles Mingus and His Jazz Workshop) -- Misterioso (take 1) : 1948 (Thelonious Monk Quartet) -- Black bottom stomp : 1926 (Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers) -- Tin Roof Blues (take B) : 1923 (New Orleans Rhythm Kings) -- Koko (take 2) : 1945 (Charlie Parker Quintet) -- Excerpt from St. Thomas : 1956 (Sonny Rollins Quartet) -- Excerpt from Outer nothingness : 1965 (Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra) -- Panama : 1959 (Kid Thomas Valentine and his Creole Jazz Band) -- Birdland : 1976 (Weather Report)