Full name: Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development

Author: Gunther Schuller Year: 1968 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Music, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780195040432 0195040430

Early Jazz is one of the seminal books on American jazz, ranging from the beginnings of jazz as a distinct musical style at the turn of the century to its first great flowering in the 1930s. Schuller explores the music of the great jazz soloists of the twenties--Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, and others--and the big bands and arrangers--Fletcher Henderson, Bennie Moten, and especially Duke Ellington--placing their music in the context of the other musical cultures of the twentieth century and offering analyses of many great jazz recordings. Early Jazz provides a musical tour of the early American jazz world. A classic study, it is both a splendid introduction for students and an insightful guide for scholars, musicians, and jazz aficionados. Similar books: The History of Jazz by Ted Gioia Jazz by Geoffrey C. Ward The Birth of Bebop by Scott DeVeaux As Serious As Your Life by Valerie Wilmer Improvising Jazz by Jerry Coker Visions of Jazz: The First Century by Gary Giddins A Love Supreme by Ashley Kahn Kind Of Blue by Ashley Kahn Miles Beyond by Paul Tingen Coltrane by Ben Ratliff West Coast Jazz by Ted Gioia But Beautiful by Geoff Dyer The Jazz Theory Book by Mark Levine A Change Is Gonna Come by Craig Werner Last Night a DJ Saved My Life by Bill Brewster Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page Punk Avenue by Phil Marcade Writing Better Lyrics by Pat Pattison Tunesmith by Jimmy Webb Waylon by Terry Jennings