Jazz - America''s Classical Music

"Jazz: America's Classical Music is a delightful introduction and guide to this complex and compelling music and to its rich history. In an engaging and conversational style, renowned jazz teacher Gro"

List of contents

* Who this Book is for * The Nature of Jazz * The Growth of Jazz * Jazz Today * Where Is Jazz Going? * Chronology * Discography * Selected Bibliography * Jazz Magazines and Publications

About the author

Grover Sales is an instructor in jazz studies at Stanford University and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He was publicity director of the Monterey Jazz Festival for its first seven years and did personal publicity for many of the jazz greats including Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, and Duke Ellington.

Summary

Jazz: America's Classical Music is a delightful introduction and guide to this complex and compelling music and to its rich history. In an engaging and conversational style, renowned jazz teacher Grover Sales tells of the lives and music of the greats—Ellington, Tatum, Hawkins, Coltrane, Parker, Hines, Goodman, Armstrong, and many others—with a mix of important facts, fascinating anecdotes, and brilliant interpretations. Illustrated with astonishing photographs of the artists in performance, Jazz: America's Classical Music is a classic text, an ideal book for beginners and an inspiring one for serious students of the art of jazz.

Product details

• Authors: Grover Sales, Sales Grover
• Assisted by: Gene Lees (Editor)
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.1992
• EAN: 9780306804915
• ISBN: 978-0-306-80491-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works; Jazz, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Reference, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Blues, Popular Music