Jazz + The Norton Jazz Recordings (4 CD)

The story of jazz for the general reader as it has never been told before, from the inside out: a comprehensive, eloquent, scrupulously researched page-turner.

In this vivid history of jazz, a respected critic and a leading scholar capture the excitement of America?s unique music with intellectual bite, unprecedented insight, and the passion of unabashed fans. They explain what jazz is, where it came from, and who created it and why, all within the broader context of American life and culture. Emphasizing its African American roots, Jazz traces the history of the music over the last hundred years. From ragtime and blues to the international craze for swing, from the heated protests of the avant-garde to the radical diversity of today?s artists, Jazz describes the travails and triumphs of musical innovators struggling for work, respect, and cultural acceptance set against the backdrop of American history, commerce, and politics. With vibrant photographs by legendary jazz chronicler Herman Leonard, Jazz is also an arresting visual history of a century of music.

CONTENIDO:

- Part I Musical Orientation
1 Musical Elements and Instruments
2 Jazz Form and Improvisation

- Part II Early Jazz (1900-1930)
3 The Roots of Jazz
4 New Orleans
5 New York in the 1920s
6 Louis Armstrong and the First Great Soloists

- Part III The Swing Era
7 Swing Bands
8 Count Basie and Duke Ellington
9 Swing Era Soloists
10 Rhythm in Transition

- Part IV Modern Jazz
11 Bebop
12 The 1950s: Cool Jazz and Hard Bop
13 Jazz Composition in the 1950s
14 The Modality of Miles Davis and John Coltrane

- Part V The Avant-Garde, Fusion, Historicism, and Now
15 The Avant-Garde
16 Fusion I (to 1960): R & B, Singers, and Latin Jazz
17 Fusion II: Jazz, Rock, and Beyond
18 Historicist Jazz
19 The Modern Scene


CONTENIDO DE LOS CDS:

CD 1
1. Akuapim Drumming
2. Bessie Smith: Reckless Blues
3. Louis Armstrong: West End Blues
4. Pete Johnson/ Big Joe Turner: It?s All Right, Baby
5. Charlie Parker: Now?s the Time
6. Billie Holiday: A Sailboat in the Moonlight
7. Miles Davis: So What
8. Georgia Sea Island Singers: The Buzzard Lope
9. Mississippi Fred McDowell: Soon One Morning
10. John Philip Sousa: Stars and Stripes Forever
11. Wilbur Sweatman: Down Home Rag
12. Original Dixieland Jazz Band: Dixie Jass Band One-Step
13. Jelly Roll Morton: Dead Man Blues
14. Jelly Roll Morton: Doctor Jazz
15. King Oliver: Snake Rag
16. Sidney Bechet: Cake Walking Babies (from Home)
17. Paul Whiteman: Changes
18. Fletcher Henderson: Copenhagen
19. James P. Johnson: You?ve Got to Be Modernistic
20. Duke Ellington: Black and Tan Fantasy
21. Louis Armstrong: Hotter Than That
22. Louis Armstrong/ Early Hines: Weather Bird
23. Frank Trumbauer/ Bix Beiderbecke: Singin? the Blues
24. Coleman Hawkins: One Hour

CD 2
1. Fletcher Henderson: Blue Lou
2. Benny Goodman: Dinah
3. Artie Shaw: Star Dust
4. Jimmie Lunceford: T?aint What You Do (It?s the Way That You Do It)
5. Andy Kirk/Mary Lou Williams: Walkin? and Swingin?
6. Count Basie: One O?Clock Jump
7. Duke Ellington: Mood Indigo
8. Duke Ellington: Conga Brava
9. Duke Ellington: Blood Count
10. Coleman Hawkins: Body and Soul
11. Count Basie/Lester Young: Oh! Lady Be Good
12. Benny Carter/Django Reinhardt: I?m Coming, Virginia
13. Ella Fitzgerald: Blue Skies
14. Fats Waller: Christopher Columbus
15. Art Tatum: Over the Rainbow
16. Charlie Christian: Swing to Bop (Topsy)
17. Charlie Parker: Ko-Ko (false start)
18. Charlie Parker: Ko-Ko (master take)
19. Charlie Parker: Embraceable You
20. Bud Powell: Tempus Fugue-It
21. Dexter Gordon: Long Tall Dexter
22. Miles Davis: Moon Dreams
23. Modern Jazz Quartet: All the Things You Are
24. Horace Silver: The Preacher

CD 3
1. Clifford Brown: A Night in Tunisia (excerpt)
2. Sonny Rollins: Autumn Nocturne
3. Wes Montgomery: Twisted Blues
4. Thelonious Monk: Thelonious
5. Thelonious Monk: Rhythm-a-ning
6. Charles Mingus: Boogie Stop Shuffle (edited LP version)
7. Gil Evans: King Porter Stomp
8. George Russell: Concerto for Billy the Kid
9. John Coltrane: Giant Steps
10. John Coltrane: Acknowledgement
11. Miles Davis: E. S. P.
12. Ornette Coleman: Lonely Woman
13. Cecil Taylor: Bulbs
14. Cecil Taylor: Willisau Concert, Part 3
15. Albert Ayler: Ghosts
16. David Murray: El Matador

CD 4
1. Jimmy Smith: The Organ Grinder?s Swing
2. Frank Sinatra: The Birth of the Blues
3. Sarah Vaughan: Baby, Won?t You Please Come Home?
4. Dizzy Gillespie: Manteca
5. Mongo Santamaria: Watermelon Man
6. Stan Getz/Charlie Byrd: Samba Dees Days
7. Weather Report: Teen Town
8. Keith Jarrett: Long as You Know You?re Living Yours
9. Scofield, Medeski, Martin, and Wood: Chank
10. Miles Davis: Tutu
11. Anthony Braxton: Piece Three
12. Wynton Marsalis: Processional
13. Shannon Jackson: Now?s The Time
14. Jason Moran: You?ve Got to Be Modernistic
15. Jason Moran: Planet Rock