Analysis of Jazz: A Comprehensive Approach (American Made Music Series)

Cugny, Laurent

ISBN 10: 1496821882 / ISBN 13: 9781496821881

Published by University Press of Mississippi, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Analysis of Jazz: A Comprehensive Approach (American Made Music Series)
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1496821882
• ISBN 13: 9781496821881
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Analysis of Jazz: A Comprehensive Approach, originally published in French as Analyser le jazz, is available here in English for the first time. In this groundbreaking volume, Laurent Cugny examines and connects the theoretical and methodological processes that underlie all of jazz. Jazz in all its forms has been researched and analyzed by performers, scholars, and critics, and Analysis of Jazz is required reading for any serious study of jazz; but not just musicians and musicologists analyze jazz. All listeners are analysts to some extent. Listening is an active process; it may not involve questioning but it always involves remembering, comparing, and listening again. This book is for anyone who attentively listens to and wants to understand jazz.

Divided into three parts, the book focuses on the work of jazz, analytical parameters, and analysis. In part one, Cugny aims at defining what a jazz work is precisely, offering suggestions based on the main features of definition and structure. Part two he dedicates to the analytical parameters of jazz in which a work is performed: harmony, rhythm, form, sound, and melody. Part three takes up the analysis of jazz itself, its history, issues of transcription, and the nature of improvised solos. In conclusion, Cugny addresses the issues of interpretation to reflect on the goals of analysis with regard to understanding the history of jazz and the different cultural backgrounds in which it takes place.

Analysis of Jazz presents a detailed inventory of theoretical tools and issues necessary for understanding jazz.

About the Author

Laurent Cugny is a musician, musicologist, and jazz specialist. Professor emeritus at Sorbonne University, he has published numerous essays and articles. As a musician, he played and recorded with Gil Evans, directed the French Jazz National Orchestra, and has released fourteen albums under his own name. He is author of Analysis of Jazz: A Comprehensive Approach, published by University Press of Mississippi.