How to listen to and appreciate jazz
A series of lectures designed to help musical enthusiasts become more astute, sophisticated jazz listeners. In these lectures, Professor Buehrer introduces concepts common to nearly all forms of music before focusing on unique aspects of jazz appreciation from early jazz to swing, bebop, fusion, and...
| Main Author: | Buehrer, Theodore Edward. |
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| Other Authors: | Martin, Henry, 1950- (Performer), Waters, Keith, 1958- (Performer) |
| Format: | Audiobooks Audiobook (CD) |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Prince Frederick, Md. :
Recorded Books,
p2006.
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| Series: |
Modern scholar.
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Lecture 1. Listening to jazz: part I, basic parameters of music and the jazz rhythm section
- Lecture 2. Listening to jazz: part II, the sounds and forms of jazz
- Lecture 3. Listening to jazz: part III, appreciating jazz improvisation
- Lecture 4. The origins of jazz
- Lecture 5. New Orleans
- Lecture 6. Chicago and the transition to early swing
- Lecture 7. The swing era
- Lecture 8. Swing to bebop
- Lecture 9. Bebop: the birth of modern jazz
- Lecture 10. The 1950s and a profusion of styles
- Lecture 11. Into the 1960s
- Lecture 12. Jazz in the 1960s
- Lecture 13. Jazz fusion
- Lecture 14. The contemporary jazz scene.