Jazz Music

Known as: Music, Jazz

A form of music developed in the early 1920s characterized by string rhythms and improvisatory solos.

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2009

Heroes and Villains is the first collection of essays by David Hajdu, award-winning author of The Ten-Cent Plague, Positively 4th…

2008

The title of this is drawn from essay a section of Langston Hughes's long experimental poem ASK YOUR MAMA: 12 MOODS FOR JAZZ…

2004

"Is jazz a kind of folk music? Is it a performing style? How is it different from other kinds of music?" There is no simple…

2003

INTRODUCTION In 2001 the nation paid more attention to jazz than it had for a long time. With its first aired episode on 8…

2002

In 1988, I conducted a telephone interview with the African American New Orleans clarinet player Willie James Humphrey about his…

2000

Jazz in American Culture offers an informed and entertaining introduction to jazz - one of the great musical cultures of the…

1995

The aim of this research is to provide a formalization method for the musicalconcepts and entities observed in scores and texts…

1986

A collection of jazz chants, recorded with live music by world-famous jazz musicians, designed to practice useful language…

1984

* Who this Book is for * The Nature of Jazz * The Growth of Jazz * Jazz Today * Where Is Jazz Going? * Chronology * Discography…

1981

This is "The" reference book for anyone interested musical films. From The Jazz Singer to the most recent Academy Award winners…