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Concise Guide to Jazz, 5/E
Mark C. Gridley, Heidelberg College

ISBN-10: 0131733311
ISBN-13: 9780131733312

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2007
Format: Paper; 304 pp
Published: 01/05/2006

Suggested retail price: $55.60
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This book is for courses in jazz history, intro to jazz, evolution of jazz, jazz appreciation, or "Jazz in America."

 

This introductory text, an abridged version of Jazz Styles, teaches students to appreciate jazz with its in-depth listening guides, CD's with historic recordings of jazz, and a Demonstration CD illustrating instrument sounds and how musicians make jazz.

 

Concise Guide to Jazz was developed in response to student and professor requests for an introductory text offering the clarity and accuracy of Jazz Styles with 1/2 the size, 1/40 the number of names and tune titles, and 1/3 the number of musician profiles, in just 11 chapters. Written by an active jazz musician and jazz historian, this brief introduction examines how jazz originated, how it is made, what to listen for, the major style eras, and the individual styles of 49 historically significant jazz musicians.

Do you teach a one-semester jazz course?

  • Concise Guide to Jazz is clear, accurate and easy to complete in one semester.  This abridged version of Jazz Styles was developed in response to student and professor requests for an introductory text offering the clarity and accuracy of Jazz Styles with 1/2 the size, 1/40 the number of names and tune titles, and 1/3 the number of musician profiles, in just 11 chapters.

How do you use musical recordings to enhance your student’s learning experience?  Three different CD sets are available at a discount with this text.

 

  • Prentice Hall Jazz Collection–Includes 12 historic recordings. 
    • Track listing:  1 Jelly Roll Morton: "Wolverine Blues" (1927) 2 Benny Goodman and Charlie Christian: "Seven Come Eleven" (1939) 3 Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker: "Groovin' High" (1947) 4 Thelonious Monk: "Misterioso" (1948) 5 Woody Herman and Jimmy Giuffre: "Four Brothers" (1947) 6 Dave Brubeck: "Blue Rondo a la Turk" (1959) 7 Horace Silver: "Señor Blues" (1956) 8 Charles Mingus: "Fables of Faubus" (1959) 9 Ornette Coleman: "Civilization Day" (1971) 10 Herbie Hancock: "Chameleon" (1973) 11 Wynton Marsalis: "Express Crossing" (1993) 12 Dave Douglas: "Kidnapping Kissinger" (2001)
  • Jazz Classics 2 CD set–Includes 35 historical recordings from the big names in jazz history. This set helps students appreciate why listeners become so excited about their styles, and spares students and instructors from the need to search for hard-to-locate, high-quality examples of each style.

    • Track listing:  Disc 1: Track 1 Original Dixieland Jazz Band: “Dixie Jazz Band One-Step” (1917) 2 King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band: “Alligator Hop” (1923) 3 Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong: “Reckless Blues” (1923) 4 Frankie Trumbauer and Bix Beiderbecke: “Riverboat Shuffle” (1927) 5 Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines: “West End Blues” (1928) 6 Art Tatum: “Tiger Rag” (1933) 7 Count Basie and Lester Young: “Lady Be Good” (1936) 8 Roy Eldridge and Chu Berry: “Sittin’ In” (1938) 9 Count Basie and Lester Young: “Taxi War Dance” (1939) 10 Billie Holiday and Lester Young: “Back in Your Own Back Yard” (1939) 11 Coleman Hawkins: “Body and Soul” (1939) 12 Duke Ellington, Cootie Williams, and Barney Bigard: “Harlem Airshaft” (1940) 13 Johnny Hodges: “I’ve Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good” (1961) 14 Ella Fitzgerald: “Flying Home” (1945) 15 Dexter Gordon and Fats Navarro: “Index” (1947) 16 Charlie Parker and John Lewis: “Parker’s Mood” (1948) 17 Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie: “Leap Frog” (1950) 18 Bud Powell: “Get Happy” (1950) 19 Lennie Tristano and Lee Konitz: “Subconscious-Lee” (1949) 20 Stan Kenton and Lee Konitz: “Improvisation” (1953) 21 J. J. Johnson, Clifford Brown, and Jimmy Heath: “Get Happy” (1953)  22 Stan Getz: “It Never Entered My Mind” (1957)  23 Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane: “Two Bass Hit” (1958) 24 Miles Davis, Bill Evans, and John Coltrane: “Blue in Green” (1959)  Disc 2: Track 1 Wes Montgomery: “Mr Walker” (1960) 2 Bill Evans, Scott LaFaro, and Paul Motian: “Solar” (1961) 3 John Coltrane: “Your Lady” (1963) 4 Art Blakey, Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan, and Curtis Fuller: “The Egyptian” (1964) 5 Ornette Coleman: “Dee-Dee” excerpt (1965) 6 Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, and Herbie Hancock: “Prince of Darkness” (1967) 7 John Coltrane and Rashied Ali: “Mars” 8 Chick Corea: “Captain Marvel” (1972) 9 Horace Silver, Michael Brecker, and Randy Brecker: “Gregory is Here” (1972) 10  Keith Jarrett and Jan Garbarek: “The Wind-Up” (1974) 11 Weather Report: “Birdland” (1977)

  • Demonstration CD–Includes 159 examples of instrument sounds and strategies for jazz combo improvisation.

    • Supplies students with demonstrations and narrative explaining twelve-bar blues, A-A-B-A, ride rhythms, walking bass, comping, trumpet vs. fluegelhorn, clarinet vs. soprano sax vs. alto sax vs. tenor sax vs. baritone sax, Harmon mute, plunger mute, chords, chord changes, blue notes, trombone, vibraphone, and flute.

  • NEW–Fourteen additional timeless masterpieces, with corresponding listening guides, by Joe Oliver, Bix Beiderbecke, Roy Eldridge, Bud Powell, Lester Young, Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Wes Montgomery, Stan Getz, Lee Konitz, Stan Kenton, John Coltrane, Michael Brecker, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, Keith Jarrett, Miles Davis, Jan Garbarek, and Ron Carter.
    • Gives students more examples of jazz to hear.

  • NEW–Substitutions on the Jazz Classics CD

    • Substituted “Parker’s Mood” by Charlie Parker for “Ko-Ko.”

      • Gives students a more accessible example of Parker’s thinking.
    • Substituted “Reckless Blues” by Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong for “Sobbin’ Hearted Blues.”
      • Provides an example that consistently follows a 12-bar chorus-form.
    • Substituted “Get Happy” by Clifford Brown and J.J. Johnson for “Gertrude’s Bounce.”
      • Restores the selection that originally accompanied the book.
    • Substituted “Index” by Dexter Gordon and Fats Navarro for “Dexter Digs In.”
      •  Gives a good example for Clifford Brown’s main source by a 2-chorus Navarro solo.
    • Expanded “Solar” to its complete original length to include the 15-chorus bass solo by Scott LaFaro, as well as the trading of choruses between Bill Evans and Paul Motian.

1 CD package:  To order Concise Guide to Jazz Book + the Demonstration CD, use ISBN 0-13-221918-2.

 

2 CD package:  To order Concise Guide to Jazz Book + Jazz Classics 2 CD set, use ISBN 0-13-221917-4.

  

3 CD package:  To order Concise Guide to Jazz Book+ Jazz Classics 2 CD set + the Demonstration CD, use ISBN 0-13-221916-6.

 

3 CD package:  To order Concise Guide to Jazz Book + Jazz Classics 2 CD set + the Prentice Hall Jazz Collection, use ISBN 0-13-227222-9.

 

4 CD package:  To order Concise Guide to Jazz Book + Jazz Classics 2 CD set + the Demonstration CD + the Prentice Hall Jazz Collection, use 0-13-227221-0.

 

5 CD package:  To order Concise Guide to Jazz Book + Jazz Classics 2 CD set + the Demonstration CD + the Jazz Classics 2 CD set that accompanies Jazz Styles (**only 5 duplications with the Jazz Classics CDs from Concise), use 0-13-223349-5.

 

**Don't see what you are looking for?  Please contact your Prentice Hall rep or e-mail music_service@prenhall.com to create custom valuepacks.**

 

 

How do you teach your students to listen to jazz?

  • Interactive Listening Guides on CD-ROM (coming soon)–This CD-ROM scrolls and highlights all the Listening Guides on the Jazz Classics CDs as the music is being played. Also includes quizzes for each Listening Guide, composer biographies, and an interactive glossary of musical terms.
  • Appendix for musicians–Includes chord changes; modes; and bass lines.
  • Chapter summaries–Contain quick-reference numbered statements.
    • Highlights the most important points of each chapter.
  • 31 in-depth (2-3 pages each) Listening Guides –Contain detailed, easy-to-follow, non-technical narratives and timed structural analyses for the events in each selection found on the accompanying Concise Guide Jazz Classics CDs.
    • Alerts students to layers of activity in the music that become more evident on repeated listening, and emphasizes effective strategies to get the most enjoyment out of listening to jazz.
  • Album Buying Strategies.
    • Assembles strategies for finding the best CDs and out-of-print LPs.
  • NEW-Added listening guides for items that had appeared on previous Jazz Classics CDs without listening guides in the text: “Body and Soul,” “I’ve Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good,” “Dee-Dee,” and “Captain Marvel.” Revised the listening guides for “Harlem Airshaft” and “Taxi War Dance” according to suggestions from students who had used previous formats.
    • Enables students to get the most out of their listening experience.
  • NEW-Added a long listening guide to the Avant-Garde chapter for the “Prince of Darkness” recording by Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams.
    • Provides an opportunity to discuss contributions of the important mid-1960’s Davis Quintet, demonstrates Herbie Hancock’s improvisational thinking, and samples compositional and improvisational contributions by the forever-avant-garde Wayne Shorter.
  • 32 page Elements of Music appendix.
    • Introduces, explains, and illustrates basic musical terms and concepts (e.g., tempo, beat, rhythm, scale, blue notes, chord progression, song forms, tone color) for the non-musician reader.
  • Photos of instruments.
    • Provides students with illustrations to help identify sources for the sounds and know what they see when attending concerts and viewing videos.

 

Which jazz legends do you cover in your course?

  • Coverage of 49 of the most significant players-1. Jelly Roll Morton 2. James P. Johnson 3. Fats Waller 4. Earl Hines 5. Louis Armstrong 6. Bix Beiderbecke 7. Roy Eldridge 8. Coleman Hawkins 9. Count Basie 10. Lester Young 11. Billie Holiday 12. Ella Fitzgerald 13. Art Tatum 14. Benny Goodman 15. Duke Ellington 16. Charlie Parker 17. Dizzy Gillespie 18. Thelonious Monk 19. Bud Powell 20. Dexter Gordon 21. Sarah Vaughan 22. Stan Getz 23. Lennie Tristano 24. Lee Konitz 25. Gerry Mulligan 26. Dave Brubeck 27. Stan Kenton 28. Horace Silver 29. Miles Davis 30. Clifford Brown 31. Freddie Hubbard 32. Wes Montgomery 33. Cannonball Adderley 34. Sonny Rollins 35. John Coltrane 36. Ornette Coleman 37. Cecil Taylor 38. Bill Evans 39. John McLaughlin 40. Herbie Hancock 41. Chick Corea 42. David Sanborn 43. Michael Brecker 44. Joe Henderson 45. Wayne Shorter 46. John Zorn 46. Dave Douglas 47. Tito Puente 48. Wynton Marsalis 49. Keith Jarrett 
    • Describes their music and significance.
  • NEW-Added Keith Jarrett to the ”Continuing Legacies” section of the NOW chapter.
    • Allows students to study a musician who is very active today both as a leader of his Standards Trio and as an unaccompanied concert artist in the free-form style he invented for piano.
  • NEW-Section on Latin Jazz in the NOW chapter.
    • Responds to the recently burgeoning respect that this music is receiving.

 

  • NEW-Fourteen additional timeless masterpieces, with corresponding listening guides, by Joe Oliver, Bix Beiderbecke, Roy Eldridge, Bud Powell, Lester Young, Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Wes Montgomery, Stan Getz, Lee Konitz, Stan Kenton, John Coltrane, Michael Brecker, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, Keith Jarrett, Miles Davis, Jan Garbarek, and Ron Carter.
    • Gives students more examples of jazz to hear
  • NEW-Substitutions on the Jazz Classics CD
    • Substituted “Parker’s Mood” by Charlie Parker for “Ko-Ko.”
      • Gives students a more accessible example of Parker’s thinking.
    • Substituted “Reckless Blues” by Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong for “Sobbin’ Hearted Blues.”
      • Provides an example that consistently follows a 12-bar chorus-form.
    • Substituted “Get Happy” by Clifford Brown and J.J. Johnson for “Gertrude’s Bounce.”
      • Restores the selection that originally accompanied the book.
    • Substituted “Index” by Dexter Gordon and Fats Navarro for “Dexter Digs In.”
      • Gives a good example for Clifford Brown’s main source by a 2-chorus Navarro solo.
    • Expanded “Solar” to its complete original length to include the 15-chorus bass solo by Scott LaFaro, as well as the trading of choruses between Bill Evans and Paul Motian.
  • NEW-Added listening guides for items that had appeared on previous Jazz Classics CDs without listening guides in the text: “Body and Soul,” “I’ve Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good,” “Dee-Dee,” and “Captain Marvel.” Revised the listening guides for “Harlem Airshaft” and “Taxi War Dance” according to suggestions from students who had used previous formats.
    • Enables students to get the most out of their listening experience.
  • NEW-Added a long listening guide to the Avant-Garde chapter for the “Prince of Darkness” recording by Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams.
    • Provides an opportunity to discuss contributions of the important mid-1960’s Davis Quintet, demonstrates Herbie Hancock’s improvisational thinking, and samples compositional and improvisational contributions by the forever-avant-garde Wayne Shorter.
  • NEW-Added Keith Jarrett to the ”Continuing Legacies” section of the NOW chapter.
    • Allows students to study a musician who is very active today both as a leader of his Standards Trio and as an unaccompanied concert artist in the free-form style he invented for piano.
  • NEW-Section on Latin Jazz in the NOW chapter.
    • Responds to the recently burgeoning respect that this music is receiving.

 

PREFACE iv

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vi

Chapter 1 WHAT IS JAZZ?

Chapter 2 HOW TO LISTEN TO JAZZ

Chapter 3 THE ORIGINS OF JAZZ

Chapter 4 EARLY JAZZ

Chapter 5 SWING

Chapter 6 BEBOP

Chapter 7 COOL JAZZ

Chapter 8 HARD BOP

Chapter 9 AVANT-GARDE OF THE 1960'S AND 1970'S

Chapter 10 FUSION

Chapter 11 NOW

Appendices ELEMENTS OF MUSIC

ALBUM BUYING STRATEGIES

A SMALL BASIC COLLECTION OF JAZZ VIDEOS

GLOSSARY

FOR MUSICIANS

INDEX

"...the best approach to contemporary classroom jazz education extant."--Jazz Times

 

"...clearly a text designed to fit a ten-week college quarter; but it can also serve nicely as an informative introduction to jazz for novice fans...Gridley manages to touch most of the important musical baes with chapters devoted to early jazz, swing, bebop, cool jazz, hard bop avant-garde and fusion...a few hours with the Concise Guide to Jazz will add immeasurably to one's enjoyment of the music."--Jazz Forum

Mark C. Gridley is an active jazz musician who lectures widely on jazz history.  He has done field research in Africa, the Carribbean, 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.

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