Concise Guide to Jazz

Mark C Gridley

ISBN 10: 0131826573 / ISBN 13: 9780131826571

Published by Prentice Hall March 2003, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Concise Guide to Jazz
• Publisher: Prentice Hall March 2003
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0131826573
• ISBN 13: 9780131826571
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: 4th Edition
• Condition: Used - Acceptable
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Explores the origins of jazz, explains how to listen to it, and discusses styles from early jazz through bebop, cool jazz, avant-garde, and fusion.

About the Author

Mark C. Gridley is an active jazz musician who has lectured widely on jazz history and jazz appreciation for over thirty years. He has conducted field research in Africa, the Caribbean, and all the jazz centers of the United States. His books have been translated into five foreign languages. His articles appear in the Grove Dictionaries of Music, Encyclopaedia Britannica, The Musical Quarterly, The Black Perspective in Music, The Instrumentalist and Jazz Educators Journal. Gridley's Jazz Styles book is America's most widely used introduction to jazz. The Educational Press Association of America gave him its Distinguished Achievement Award.